my name is Josh and I’m an alcoholic. I’ve been drinking since I was 15. I am now 24. I’ve only gotten worse. Drinking more and more. Blacking out all the time. So much beer I actually gained about 30 pounds over the last year alone. My friends get together to drink a few times a week… at first it just seemed normal… but even when I’m alone. I go to the store and buy myself a few forties. Once I get one drink in me I don’t stop until it’s all gone or I don’t remember what I did… I just don’t know what to do. My family and friends all drink and it is incredibly hard to just say no. Seems like I’m more comfortable with people when I’m drunk. I’m awkward. Jobless and still living at home. I saw this show called love on Netflix and a girl in the show had a sober app. So here I am trying it out. I just want to be healthy and in shape. Alcohol isn’t helping. It’s taken my drive away from me, my confidence, everything. Apparently it runs in the family. But I choose not to believe that. I need help. Maybe just talking is enough. We will see. Wish me luck. This is day one for me. Hopefully there will be infinite days in front of me
I totally hear your struggle. I feel like I’m in a similar but different boat. Today is day one for me as well because I want to be healthier and I want the confidence back that I feel alcohol took from me. I’m hoping that talking it out we’ll just be enough for me as well. I feel like I’m at the point I’m just going to keep trying new things until I find something that helps me stay sober. Who knows maybe this will be our sober birthday together. Good luck to both of us 
Thank you so much. It really means the world to me.
Sobriety birthday. That made me smile. We can do this!!
I will try to be on here everyday. So if ya ever need to talk. I will try my hardest to be here
I am gonna try to also! I’m going to try to treat this app like my new addiction
Thats a good idea! The new Facebook haha
I am in the same boat. My husband likes to drink but it has taken my confidence away. I am almost 4 days in. I can’t and won’t live like this. I have felt Guilty for so long that even these last days I feel like I need to feel guilty about something else. I guess that’s why I have anxiety
@Iamstrong I get what you’re saying. I think it’s hard to think you could deserve something good or to be happy. Like load on the punishment! I have felt like I have purposely over drank to hurt my body, feeling like total crappie the next day. And all that leads in to beating myself up in my mind. Vicious Cycle! One day at a time is all I feel like I have anymore. We can do this! We have to do it for ourselves!
Stay positive!! I am guilty of doing so much wrong because of alcohol. But I don’t look in the past. I look in the future. And what the future holds for me. I see myself happy and healthy. I’m going to fight to get there. We can do this!