i have started my journey as a alcoholic today

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i have started my journey as a alcoholic today and it is scary .it feels like i can't breathe .it is also the first time that i have put this in writing or mentioned it publicly.i have just recently acknowledged my problem.i feel lost and scared and i don't know where to start and what i should do except for not drinking and that is not so easy.i know i need help.

can someone give me some advice to where i should start?

(((( reece )))))
You are very brave to acknowledge your problem.
That is usually the first step.
I am/was not an alcoholic, but I am recovering from drugs. The first thing I did, after reconizing that I was a druggie, was getting off them completely, and it is extremly hard, but you have to do it to not be a druggie or alcoholic anymore. PM me anytime. I hope I could be of help!
Be safe,
-megan-

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WE are here for YOU...........................


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Reece,

Hello and welcome!!! Thank you so much for sharing day one with us. It always helps me to be reminded of what that first day was like. I went to a few AA meetings my first day sober, and I remember the next day I felt so alone, so scared. I felt like I had no one to talk to. I couldn't remember the Serenity Prayer that we said at the meeting, so I called my friend and he told it to me over the phone. I still have the piece of paper I wrote it down on, over a year ago. I've stayed sober for coming up on 15 months now, by going to meetings and following the suggestions of the poeple there who had the life I wanted. We all follow a different path, and do whatever works for us individually. For me, it's AA, but many others do it differently. Find what works for you, but just know that you don't have to drink today. For me, I can only do it a day at a time, in the beginning it was an hour a time. It's much easier to think of things on a small scale. You've made that all important first step, acknowledging that you have a problem. You took it one step further and wrote it out where other's could read it. I think you've made a good start! Please feel free to contact me anytime! You may feel like your life is over, but it's just beginning! For me, life in sobriety is AWESOME!!!!! Please keep coming back and letting us know how you're doing on your journey.

~Rayna

Rayna nice posting. Reese Get some phone numbers of people you meet in meetings. I would not hang to much with another new comer you see how you are feeling being new. use the phone and contact the winners in AA. I am an Addict and Alocoholic. the first year for me was hard but after that it got easyier. For me I am so glad I had it hard for the first year I went to a treatment center after an hr they through me out.When I went to sleep they had a hard time waking me up from two days of using when I went to sleep because I could not wake up so they could check me they through me out. I bagged them not to but they did I went across the street to a garage they called an ambulance for me. Took me to the hospital after a week they through me out no ins. the day i got out I used crack my drug of choice. that nite I tried to kill myself I fealt if that is all there is I wanted to die someone came to the hotal I was at and got me to a hospital they got me into a treatment center again after detox they had me leave but they helped me get a place in a halfway house, the owner knew I did not have a job or any money but he let me stay their. I did get a job after a couple of months And when I left that house I did not owe any money. I caught up. I now have just over 15 years my sober date is Nov. 09 1990. If you need to pm me I would be glad to talk to you.

Reece… Welcome to the club! Like my friend ray said, thanks for reminding me how it felt when I finally admitted to myself that I was an alcoholic. It isn’t any fun, but it is where we all began.

Alcoholics Anonymous is where I got sober, it has worked for millions of us, and it will work for you if you do the deal with half the effort you put into getting and staying drunk.

But again, like my friend Rayna said, it isn’t the only path.

Back in my LSD days, I started reading the adventures of Don Juan. He was an Indian mystic living in Mexico. A primer for all class A stoners back in the 60’s. At any rate, here is a little ditty he wrote

"Any path is only a path and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question...Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.

Don Jaun


http://www.smartrecovery.org/

http://www.rational.org/plan.html

http://www.secularsobriety.org/

http://www.womenforsobriety.org/

http://www.unhooked.com/index.htm

Look everywhere for that elusive freedom, and here are a few links to get you started.
But ask yourself the only two questions that really matters, does this path have a heart, and am I willing to walk it?

Richard

I am in the same boat. I am still a very active alcoholic with a drug problem thrown in there, just to make things extra special for me. You can make it if you have a support group of family and friends though. I really think you can. My problem is I don't have that, so I drink.

You can find new supportive friends. You may not have supportive family and friends now, but that's no excuse. If you want to get sober, you can.