I fell for beer again after almosd 2 months, it feels bad even though not at the moment, but stress and so much to deal with got the best of me.
How many times one has to fail to get it right?
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That’s up to you Alejandro. Looks to me that you still think and feel there’s something positive in drinking. Like alleviating stress. While all it does is make you forget for a little bit. Well, that didn’t work for me either in the end. It just kept getting worse and worse.
Anyway, keep working your recovery one day at a time. Remind yourself you can’t have even one and decide each and every day not to drink today. On average an addicti needs seven times to quit successfully for at least a year. That’s science. But no one is average. I quit at once, but also after I don’t know how many half-hearted attempts before. We need to get our mindsets right. Success friend.
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@Alejandro8419 I’m sorry to hear that. But anyway, that was nice long streak! I’ve never had so many days of sobriety, although I have another problem, not alcohol. Do you use Sober time app?
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Maybe get support round you so you can lift the phone when you get stressed use people rather than drink ,wish you well
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We all have a different number of failed attempts and it’s different for each of us. The question is …how many relapses do you have left? For me I know if I were to relapse now, I don’t think I would make it back and I do know my health would start failing exponentially.
Just because you replapsee does not mean you give up…get back in the sober track and learn from what caused the trigger. Sorry that stress is high. Stress is a ugly part of life and it will come and go …we have to find healthier way to deal with it. Remember that drinking will not solve anything and the stress will still be there along with guilt and regret.
Take it ODAAT and keep pushing forward 
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You still have the 59 days. And you come right back here, good sign that you want to be sober. Waking up the next day sucked, for sure, keep that and hold it as a reminder.
I hope you get right back up, brush yourself and gather some more tool and start right back again today. Don’t let the slip become days, weeks, months or years.
You can do it! You are worth it!
Wish you the best in journey. Make your goal today to be to getting bed sober tonight!!
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I had many day 1s, and caused myself alot of damage continuing to relapse.
Once I realised drinking didn’t actually relieve the stress (other than blur it out for a few hours) and I still had to deal with the problem and now a relapse as well, I got sick of my own nonsense and learned new ways to deal with stress and healthy ways to solve problems.
Its possible its just a choice we make.
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I have absolutely no idea how many times I restarted….far too many to count. I can only tell you that you will know in the moment when it is the last time. It is that “sick and tired of being sick and tire”, when you are finally feeling like I will do ANYTHING to make it happen this time.
YOU CAN DO IT!!
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