Posted: 12/4/2012 9:00:46 AM EDT
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It seems we have a lot of members who are or have been addicts to some degree. Reading the posts about getting soner made me wonder what everyone else is hooked on.
I found myself pretty dependent on pop so I gave it up 1.5 years ago. Also have a problem with some foods, mostly sweets, which I would say borders on addiction. My mom is an alcoholic who has been clean for 11 years now but has become addicted to quilting in the meantime. Seems like we all have something we cant let go of. What is your addiction story/current addiction? |
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My present ones:
Caffeine Nicotine Wife-oteine (nookie for the slow thinkers) Always been a very rare drinker, I go months without thinking about it, have a drink or two, then go months more, been that way forever. Past ones: I was young and stupid for a while, a long, long time ago. |
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I started smoking pot when I was 17, moved into heavy daily drinking by 22, cocaine and other assorted illicit drugs by 24, heavy into prescription pills by 25. Crashed and burned my entire life, lost my house, wife left, family would no longer talk to me. Job was on the ropes.
Ended up in a treatment facility for addiction. Got out and into an enthusiastic 12 step group and life has never been the same. Got my wife back and we're happier than we've ever been, got a 2 year old soon I love more than life itself, reunited with my family and I'm a partner in 2 small manufacturing companies. I sponsor guys and get to watch then do the same. There really is no feeling like watching a broken man rebuild his life piece by piece and know you were there to be a part of it. As a friend of mine says frequently, I am truly blessed beyond merit. Sober since 11/20/05. |
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I started smoking pot when I was 17, moved into heavy daily drinking by 22, cocaine and other assorted illicit drugs by 24, heavy into prescription pills by 25. Crashed and burned my entire life, lost my house, wife left, family would no longer talk to me. Job was on the ropes. Ended up in a treatment facility for addiction. Got out and into an enthusiastic 12 step group and life has never been the same. Got my wife back and we're happier than we've ever been, got a 2 year old soon I love more than life itself, reunited with my family and I'm a partner in 2 small manufacturing companies. I sponsor guys and get to watch then do the same. There really is no feeling like watching a broken man rebuild his life piece by piece and know you were there to be a part of it. As a friend of mine says frequently, I am truly blessed beyond merit. Sober since 11/20/05. Refreshing. 
Keep it up. |
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Diet Mountain Dew
Working out I seriously crave those two. Not me personally, but just happened a couple of weeks ago...My wife's uncle has been an alcoholic and always drank O'Douls once he was sober. Recently started drinking again. Just a beer here and there at first, but it escalated to at least 6 per night. He would be on his way home from the grocery store, stop in a bar for a drink and end up staying for hours, ruining the groceries in the car. A few weeks ago he decided to do this and ended up drinking from 2 p.m. until 2 a.m. gets absolutely wasted and took a cab home. This guy is 6'7" probably 270, so you know he drank a lot to get fall down drunk. Gets home and stumbles up to the door and rings the doorbell because he cannot find his keys. Wife opens the door and is pissed so she just walks back upstairs. Half way up the steps she hears a horrible thud. Guy fell backwards off the porch and cracked his head on the sidewalk. Remember he is 6'7", so it was quite a fall. Has been in the hospital ever since. ICU at first , due to brain bleeding and swelling. Barely recognizes anyone, basically has to learn everything all over again because he decided to get beyond shit faced. He's 70 years old. I would think he would not be doing this sort of thing, but I guess once an alcholic, always an alcoholic. |
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I started smoking pot when I was 17, moved into heavy daily drinking by 22, cocaine and other assorted illicit drugs by 24, heavy into prescription pills by 25. Crashed and burned my entire life, lost my house, wife left, family would no longer talk to me. Job was on the ropes. Ended up in a treatment facility for addiction. Got out and into an enthusiastic 12 step group and life has never been the same. Got my wife back and we're happier than we've ever been, got a 2 year old soon I love more than life itself, reunited with my family and I'm a partner in 2 small manufacturing companies. I sponsor guys and get to watch then do the same. There really is no feeling like watching a broken man rebuild his life piece by piece and know you were there to be a part of it. As a friend of mine says frequently, I am truly blessed beyond merit. Sober since 11/20/05. Refreshing.
Keep it up. WooT! |
| Shit childhood. drinking at 13, pot by 15 cocaine by 17. On deaths door / homeless at 23. Counselor at my first treatment center compared me to a wild animal. Sobered up for good at 27. I now am married, have 2 step daughters and 9 grandkids none of which have ever seen me drunk(grandkids fight over who gets to hand out with me). Home owner, steady employee, church goer. God bless Alcoholics Anonymous. |
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Shit childhood. drinking at 13, pot by 15 cocaine by 17. On deaths door / homeless at 23. Counselor at my first treatment center compared me to a wild animal. Sobered up for good at 27. I now am married, have 2 step daughters and 9 grandkids none of which have ever seen me drunk(grandkids fight over who gets to hand out with me). Home owner, steady employee, church goer. God bless Alcoholics Anonymous. 
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