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Old Mar 18, 2012, 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by dubblemonkey View Post
...today i put on some music that i like, and it was so good to listen and feel the emotions of the music that i like very much and all that.

but the urge to get drinkin' was so powerful. it's something i enjoy so much, listening to my favourite music and drinking and escaping in the sound and the feeling.

so powerful....overides everything....every point to me being sober.

i cannot listen to music often....it's been 10 weeks since i put on a tune!
it was real sad today to have to switch it off...knowing that i simply cannot control myself with that kind of energy going on.

i didn't drink, it actually seemed insane to choose not to considering the music and drinking option was clearly the more beautiful option....
Just not the practical one

i just know i will be a mess for weeks...do crazy stuff...regret everything about me...and may not even survive.
it's so hard being so intense and extreme.

monkey
sounds like for now, j, that music is a trigger for you. a big trigger. my first year of sobriety i couldn't read books and i love reading. my drug of choice was scotch. everytime i picked up a book the main character was drinking scotch! it was very triggering to me. so i put down the books. with some time sober the trigger wasn't there and i could go back to my reading-steven king in particular. BTW he includes a drunk in all his books as a reminder of where he has been. he is drug and alcohol free for many years.
are you going to your meetings and talking about all this? it will help. no reason to drink now that you are on your way to recovery. no reason to go into that negative thinking. your being sober is a positive thing you have given yourself. push out the thought of regretting everything about yourself. you are well worth looking at all the good things about yourself. make a list "i am good, worthy person because.... "read it often in every day. i know you are of great value. others do too.
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