I Want to Stop Drinking Alcohol

Its funny when you look back at how it all started it all seems so clear but when your living it on a daily basis you don"t see it. How the hell did i become a drunk. The complexity of the illness is so deeply painful and having nowhere...

Hello new friends. I am an alcoholic, I have finally admitted it to myself and my family. Unfortunately, it was not soon enough to save my marraige. My constant desire for beer and being drunk caused me to make way too many mistakes to...

you don't wear the look of alcohol in your early 20's but rest assured you will. your face and body start to bloat. your face turns red. capillaries break like spider veins around your nose. your feet swell and your toenails get soft...

I am a 30 yr old female. Recently I got drunk at a work event and acted completely ridiculous!! I am so ashamed and sad because of my behavior. I am scared to go to work wondering what people think, if I'm going to get fired, just...

My relationship with alcohol is pretty strange. I love to drink but lately every time I drink my problems seem to manifest themselves. I have attacked people and embarrassed myself way too many times. In reality I am dealing with alot...

I want to stop drinking alcohol. I've been a heavy...very heavy...drinker for more than 30 years. I know it's killing me. Recent medical tests say so. My own body says so. But I haven't found a treatment program that does anything but...

I want to stop drinking.  It  causes me so much distress in my life, like I didn't have enough already.  I'm naturally up and down all the time, have suffered with depression and anxiety most of my life, drinking has...

I have to share my story even though i can't stop? I become too agoraphobic to go outside to smoke a cigarette during the day if I haven't been drinking. Idk, it gets worse than that but I'm not going to pretend I'm an original. I'm...

I really need to stop drinking.  I'm glad I found this site, it is just what I was looking for.  I am a 36 year old SAHM mom of a 1 and 3 year old little girls.  I think I have always had somewhat of a drinking problem, but everyone...

Hello friends ! I have been drinking alcohol since last 5 yrs. At the beginning I used to drink socially and occasionally. But since last 3 and half yrs I am taking daily. It was 180 ml of whiskey everyday at the beginning, gradually it...

Not all alcoholics are created equal. I have personally never come across anyone who was as sick as me. The lengths i went to to conseal my sickness. The lies, stealing booze from my work. guzzeling beer in the bathroom.Scamming and...

For the last year and a half I have been drinking alcohol nearly every evening, at least half a bottle of wine or two pints of beer a night, and it is gradually increasing.  The trouble began after a very stressful disciplinary and...

There are a large number of alcoholics in my family. Just about every relative i have drinks to some extent. I see nothing wrong with having a drink here and there... its only when you start using it to fix issues in life is it a...

I'm an all or nothing sort of girl. My drinking is either fine or out of hand. At the moment, I'm hung over and I don't want to feel this way EVER again. Sadly, this isn't the first time I've been hung over and it isn't even the worst...

I guess most of us who drink daily decides every morning 'Tonight i wont drink', like me. Right now its 10PM in my country and i have finished my 1st peg. Its only a few hours back, I strongly decided that I wont drink tonight. Rather I...

I'm sooooo ashamed of myself. I'm just a horrible horrible person. I've slipped back into my habit of thinking I can drink the entire stock of a pub :(

I left my boyfriend at home again. I don't know why I enjoy myself more without...

I am a little insecure of myself, I'm scared of life and death, and the way I am, difficult and introvert I can find in my behavior different sides, completely opposite, of being me. And this is dangerous.I see how drinking made me feel...

I'm a 34 year old single female who has no idea when to know enough is enough when drinking. I pretty sure I made a complete fool of myself yet again on Sat night. I was really drunk (although at the time thought I was invincible). I...

There is a poison that slips into my body every once and a while. A poison / slip into my body. Alcohol.
I've been drink for a long time. Every one in my family does it, and I guess it rubbed off. I never wanted to. But I do. I drink...

I'm 27 years old and have been a drinker since my late teens. I've always been shy when it comes to people, and have always wanted to be one of those relaxed confident people in company, and a few drinks has been my way to do that...