5 reasons not to drink

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  1. To stop embarassing myself
  2. To stop embarassing the ones I love
  3. To be accountable for my actions
  4. To stay healthy
  5. To stop hurting myself and others
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I feel you on the mental state…still extremely tough for me too. I keep trying to tell myself that my anxiety is 20x worse when I’m hungover and then if I know I did things I wouldn’t normally when drunk then it’s more like 100x

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For a while I thought the drinking would help my anxiety. It just makes it a lot worse. Stay strong.

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For my health.
For my family.
No more blackouts.
No more regrets.
No more lost days due to being hungover.

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Joking or not, that’s a bad look for a newcomer

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Taking this comment at face value - are you looking for help with that, as well? There are other places on these forums that can help!

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  1. For my health
  2. For my sanity
  3. For my family
  4. So I can focus
  5. So I can remember
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  1. For me & my family better lifestyle choice
  2. To be present and stop living in the past
  3. Loose weight
  4. Finances
  5. It could end up being the death of me
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I’m having relationship issues, work issues, home issues, health issues, money issues but I’m not drinking because I don’t want even MORE issues

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We can help you not drink, but please refrain from talking about actively still using. Also when you are ready for complete abstinence let us know bc that’s what we can really help with.

Good luck, you’re going to need it.

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Thats the one buddy

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  1. Family
  2. Health
  3. Money
  4. Fewer bad decisions
  5. Healthy Poops
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  1. Alcohol numbs me, and makes me lose my sense of wonder.
  2. Sooo much wasted time on blackouts and hangovers.
  3. Getting drunk ruins any hope of stability in my mental health.
  4. I’m done with feeling physically sick at work all the time.
  5. Alcohol makes me overly content and lose focus on progressing goals I want in my future. (i.e. arrested development)

Edit: I had forgotten I previously posted on this topic before, but I’m going to keep both here, because obviously certain points continue to be just as important to me.

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To stop avoiding issues
To preserve my health
To remember things
To spend less
To lose weight

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  1. No more hangovers or withdrawals or anxiety
  2. Nice sleep
  3. Dont have to worry about wat i did last nite
  4. Happy family
  5. Weight loss
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  1. No more hangovers
  2. No more blacking out
  3. Repair my body and mind
  4. It makes me not care about anything
  5. Life is too short to drink, so why shorten it more
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1 To break the chain so my kids don’t see this as normal and follow the family tradition
2 To be present
3 Physical Health, avoiding alcohol related disease
4 Mental health, getting rid of irrational anxiety
5 To relearn what it feels like to feel something other than feeling like crap every day, self esteem

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