drinking!!! 🤦🏼‍♀️

[YNWA68]

why oh why do we not remember how shit we are when we are drinking 🥴

[Isinatra]

For me, one reason was, I’d tell myself “this time it would be different”. It rarely was so I had to stop.

[SoberDrunk1]

If you have an alcoholic mind, the book AA talks about How it cannot bring into consciousness the suffering and humiliation of even a week or month ago! We have no defense against the first drink. The defense must come from your higher power!

[chrisbuy63]

Because it feels good when we are doing it, the aftermath is what makes us feel like S..t!!!

I am a Christian and the bible instructs us not to get drunk it does not say do not drink wine, I love wine but a bit too much and the only way I could stop kidding myself that I was keeping it within bounds was to stop . That was 3 months ago and I feel better for it, I don't wake up with that horrid taste in my mouth anymore and dread of what I said or did whilst inebriated because even a bit tipsy tends to losen lips and inhibitions.

[SoberDrunk1 in reply to chrisbuy63]

Yes, we drink because of the effect produced by taking a few drinks. Again the alcoholic mind is so short sighted that it does not look beyond.

So its better to quickly realize that we have an alcoholic mind and take necessary action so we dont look to switch off. Otherwise we will do it over and over again.

[DicCarlson]

It's your brain - specifically The Amygdala - watch this video and give "Havening" a try. You can do it yourself - self-havening or visit a practitioner. Mostly use for phobias and PTSD - but booze is a big player in fashioning your brain plasticity through the amygdala.

youtube.com/watch?v=T0kf-92...(Not working as expected?)

Also self-havening...

havening.org/

[catsrock]

It's ok, you're human. You can do this and start new today.

[LilyAnnepuppy Ambassador]

The why of it all doesn’t matter to me. It’s just a fact that if I drink that shit happens. I black out and act nothing like the person I should be. I am powerless over alcohol and need AA to let me stay sober a day at a time.