Hello, one year ago I posted here and it helped me for the first time of my life to be sober. It lasted 10 days. I want the same help please. I am an alcoholic and weed smoker. I want to be sober again. I liked those days because I remember them. After this I thought that I could be sober anytime I wanted. No I couldn’t!
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Lots of help for you just like last year, read, read and read and join in as much as you feel like you want to. Lots of support here for you.
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Welcome back @philip
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Welcome back @philip
What @Alisa said. Being active on here helped get me sober. Along with many other tools and knowledge of addiction.
Have a good read around and join in when you’re comfortable.
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Welcome back. That was the ‘have your cake and eat it’ conundrum that troubled me for a long time. I wanted to be sober but drink sometimes, and that is impossible. You have to truly give up any thought of drinking / using again, and change your thoughts from ‘I have to quit’ to ‘I get to quit’, and from ‘giving up booze and weed’ to ‘gaining time / respect / energy / etc’.
Check out those threads from Dazercat - gold in all of them.
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have you gone to any 12 step meetings?
Welcome back!! Lots of good info here to read and inspiration. Hope to see you around!! You made a good choice returning!!
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Make a few notes on your phone on how you felt at that time and how your feeling now. Read them regularly add to them watch things grow a little at first.
Try committing to checking in here and reading the threads for 30 days. Form a habit so to speak 
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No I never went to a meeting. I don’t know if there is any in my town. I have to find it out. The only help I ever had is from here 
Glad you’re back here & where you belong! What I’ve witnessed, and experienced, is that in early recovery it’s important to surround ourselves with like minded folks. So being here, in recovery meetings and other sober social settings is important. Eating healthy meals & lots of water is important, too. Dwelling on the past is not helpful & future tripping takes away from today’s focus as well. Today is beautiful & staying sober in it sets us up for many more beautiful tomorrows!
We put in a lot of work to be/stay lit, surely we owe ourselves to do the same to stay sane! Again, so glad you’ve returned to the recovery crew.
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It’s a real bad trap to fall into… when your alcoholic internal voice tells you it’s ok because you’ve proved you can quit any time….. that voice will tell you anything to get it’s drink, and as you’ve learned you can then lose months and years of your life to the drinking.
It’s good that you’ve made it back here. This time you can learn from the experience that you’ve had, and learn to not listen to that internal voice when it’s telling you it’s ok. It really is not ok to drink. You are an alcoholic, that “one drink” could take years off your life, lost to more drinking.
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In person meetings are great, and local support is (usually for most people) better than virtual. Don’t stop being here with us, but please consider an in-person meeting as well.
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