Sounds like I was your mama, “Don’t give away your bebe!”
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Sure we are. Just look at her. She’s our Olympic wrestler. The blonde, that is.
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Is that Milile?
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Y’all done derailed the derailment thread. Kudos
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Talented bunch 
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Have the Finn wear red/white, and the Japanese wear blue. Who thought THAT made sense?!
That said, I figure both of them could twist me into a pretzel and break me in half without getting a sweat going.
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I seriously remember being worried that I’d get a suspension for derailing the derailment void 
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They told me early on that I don’t have to attend every fight I’m invited to.
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I’ve been around alcohol multiple times since getting sober… I don’t avoid the gatherings because of fear of getting drunk, I fear the boredom and monotony of it. After 2 or 3 drinks people change, conversation stagnates.
Go to get togethers if that’s your thing, more power to ya, just don’t pick up a damn drink.
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Yeah I think she isn’t very worried of walking alone in the late hours, LOL.
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Like when we’re invited to drink! Pass, thanks.
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Yep. I didn’t tempt fate for a good while at first. Once secure though, what’re you gonna do? Avoid your friend’s wedding? Booze gonna keep existing whether I drink or not.
But same. Now sober, there’s a lot of drunken tomfoolery I just don’t care for anymore.
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Definitely not an issue these days. The 10th step promises really do work. That being said I still don’t take risks and go places unless I have a good reason to be there.
I do trivia with friends at a bar. They drink. I eat nachos and drink free club sodas and lime, but I wouldn’t go if trivia wasn’t involved.
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I’m with David mostly. Early on in sobriety I did go to my old bar for a while. I guess I tried to stay friends with my drinking friends. As it turned out they were not my friends. They were drinking buddies. And the bar wasn’t a place for good times and good talks but instead it’s a place for drunken incoherent ramblings and fights.
So pretty soon I quit going there. I could have saved myself the trouble. And in hindsight I could have avoided the risk of me having a drink again, out of boredom, out of craving, out of wanting to belong, out of habit, out of being an addict. So despite me having done that and having survived with my sobriety intact, with the knowledge I have now I would strongly advice against following the same path. Yes I am advising something here.
And I still go to social gatherings and events, just as long as alcohol isn’t the main objective of the event. I love live music. I used to think I needed to drink to enjoy it. The opposite is true. I’ll go to funerals. Of course. Getting drunk at a funeral is sad. Haven’t been to a wedding in years but I’d go.
Alcohol is all around. Can’t avoid it. But I don’t have to go looking for it.
Exposure is an interesting subject and can be a beneficial treatment for different psychiatric illnesses. But when done in a therapeutic setting it is handled with extreme care and precaution. There are some experimental exposure based treatments for treating alcoholism (i.e. CET) It can very easily go wrong. Take care. For a decent meta-analysis of CET see Cue exposure therapy for the treatment of alcohol use disorders: A meta-analytic review - ScienceDirect
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Chlordiazepoxide-HCL is a benzo and there are people on the forum who have struggled/ are struggling with this.
Benzos are known to be addictive and open to abuse, with risk of overdose and death. All drugs are dangerous without medical supervision (even sometimes with medical supervision, as many here have found!).
Advocating the use of addictive substances on the forum is not in the spirit of the rules.
I’m not posting this here for discussion, let’s leave it at that.
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Yeah, when it comes to prescription medication, that really is a matter of honest discussion with our doctor. Off-label use can spell disaster.
When it came to deciding how much of anything I needed, it’s pretty dangerous to be my own judge as I’ve demonstrated to myself over and over again!
Have you talked with your doc about it?
I apologize. I’m very new to this and I don’t really understand how things are classified. I try to post seldom and only meant well. My apologies. I’m fine with deleting that comment however I need to. Not trying to violate any rules. I tried deleting it so hopefully that goes through. This is why I try keeping comments to myself
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You don’t need to keep comments to yourself, if it’s out of line it’ll get caught, trust me 
. We’re all here to try and help eachother.
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Yeah, by all means, it’s better to share than not for the sake of our recovery! No harm, no foul.
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