Thinking about how absolutely hurrendous this time last week was how I was shaking and being violently sick due to the excessive 4 day drinking , I’d lost my phone there was sick all over the house , my partner was furious with me , I couldn’t even get out of bed , but that was just pretty much normal but something inside told me ENOUGH. It’s a battle with my head as usual wanting me to convince myself il be ok il just have a few but as we all no that’s impossible it will never be that way I will always drink until I pass out as soon as I have that first drink 
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Congratulations on your week! This would be a good post to bookmark and come back to in those moments when you think ‘just 1 won’t hurt’. It helped me a lot to remember just how bad I was and how awful I felt. Happy for you!
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Aww thank you 
. Yes that’s a very good idea I will book mark it if I can find out how to do it haha , reminding yourself of the hell of drinking is how I’m going to keep going xxx
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Congrats on your first week. 
At least you’re through the physical detox period. The mental stuff is trickier. Our addicts’ brains go to great lengths to trick us, and their most insidious trick is when they tell us we’ll only have one, one won’t hurt. It’s good that you have recognized that you (we) can’t drink like that. One always means drinking until passing out. Remember this, because your brain will try to tell you otherwise. But we are all in the same boat. There’s a lot of knowledge, support, and compassion on this site. I only have three weeks, but this site (reading about others’ experiences, checking in and sharing my own, and so on) has been instrumental in my sobriety thus far.
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Good for you Donna! 
Now on to week 2. You’ve got this!
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Thank you and your completely right it’s the meantle side of it that really is a battle , it’s so hard isn’t it , I know it’s going to be very difficult but I will just remind myself I’m a wreck with drink and I hurt loved ones seeing me a wreck and I will never ever be able to sociably drink coz when everyone else goes home to bed I will always continue to drink and cause havoc and distruction in my path of drinking
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Thank you Matt I certainly have
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Congratulations on your first week! Awesome job! 
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Congratulations. I’m 24 hours clean.
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Thank you so much 
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Well done yayy
Welcome to TS, read and keep reading the topics, you’ll find all the help you need from our community.
On to 48hrs take care.
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Welcome @Tayben5112 
Welcome ! Congrats on one week! I bet it feels so good to be a week away from those negative & nasty feelings that come after a binge. I too felt the same , defeated and almost like I was dying (I slowly was). We don’t have to end up there ever again , if we just don’t pick up the first drink. One day at a time🩷🙏
How to bookmark:
Push the 3 dots at the right.
Push the bookmark symbol.
You can choose also how long you want to keep it bookmarked.
Congratulations for the 1 week milestone! 
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Thank you so much xxx
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Awww thank you for that , iv book marked it now , thanks for your help
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May as well stay stopped since its so hard to stop once you’ve started, eh?
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Yes definitely your very right x
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Well said !. Yes one drink is the problem.
“One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.”
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