I Am An Alcoholic Stories of Experiences

Within the last two years I noticed I had drinking problem. Starting when I moved in with my now husband. He also drinks but mainly to unwind after a long day and what most would consider normal. He doesn't know I have a problem.

When...

Been to my first AA this week. Ok, but need to find another that is not church related. Nothing against that, but I am not a church person at all.
If anything, I blame religion for not helping me in the first place. No offense to...

I'm am an alcoholic. No one knows I am except the people at the AA meetings. My family, my friends, anyone who knows me has no idea that I drink all day, every day. Straight vodka is my drink of chose.
Like every alcoholic, I want...

It all started with blackberry brandy. I had barely learned to speak, but I had already learned that a lot of fussing and crying would result in a shot or two of black berry brandy. My grandmother had custody of me at the time, and...

I am a sober recovering alcoholic. I drink off and on most of my life. I was the guy in my late teens who use to black out at parties and hear about the fun stuff I did the night before. They thought I was quite funny. I remember in...

After struggling to get and stay sober for 8 month I relapse but thankfully I'm now 5day sober again hope this time it for good

ok guys and girls i'm going to a treatment center on friday
today i got 26 days sober.over 5 months separeted.and still alive .
talk to went i'm back.

It just hit me like a ton of bricks. I figured out why I hate AA so much.

I don't want to belong to a club, that would have me for a member.

So had this conversation today with my boyfriend. I might be able to get funding to go to Rehab but il be away 4-6 weeks..but need to do this otherwise il die basically"All hes bothered about is if im going to go there and when I return...

So in a few hours..7 to be exact i have an alcohol counselor coming to my home and to be honest im actually scared as im going to ask her about going into Rehab. I have just applied to a place, and the reason for this is because i know...

hi today i got 21 days sober i did not drink all week ,and i saw my big trigger
(stbx)i been going to AA meetings,coming here. and yesterday i talk a person from a treatment center saying that i was i approve and that can go on next...

Hi I hope im doing this right. My name is Tracie and im an alcoholic . I hate saying it as it makes it sound all so very real but i guess the first step is admitting it isnt it? I also suffer with severe anxiety and agrophobia, although...

hi everybody
i got 17days sober and 24 day clean(not drugs)i don't not was happenning to me my emotions are hay wire. i went to AA meeting feel good.but now for some reason i being thinking of my STBX an how to help her and fail...

hi it beens two weeks since my last drink and today i feel like s...t
my counsellor say that i'm doing good, with all that is going on in my life.
i did not drink.and she said yahs is good.today i wake up ok after that i feel loss...

whats wrong with me, all my self work went down the toilet i let her know that i still miss her,and that i want to had sex with her.I kwon part is because i didn't have sex yet ,after we split up,i came out so need.why m'i so stupid any...

is there a chat room for this group. i need to talk.....

It has been 4 days of not drinking....

I still feel out of it, shaky, confused and frustrated. I wish the DTs would go away completely and I could just feel like a normal person.

Weekends feel pointless almost without alcohol. My body...

This week is a great example of that. I almost lost my lover due to me being an alcoholic. Some days I can drink and be fine, but then other days (usually after I have been drinking for 3-5 days in a row) I will go bezzerk. I will black...

I have been dwelling on this, the drinking, every day for many years now. I desperately want to stop, but always at the end of the day I have myself talked into it. It's no big deal, I need to unwind, I deserve it, it's not so abnormal...

Didnt start drinking heavily till 30yrs old after drug addiction, this helped me kick that habit and start another! In those days I would drink a 4 litre cask of red wine each night and still manage to work. (This was after a messy...