I’ve been teetering back and forth with the idea of getting clean from alcohol. After a long weekend binge drinking and using alcohol as a tool to keep me from feeling the crippling anxiety and depression tha has blanketed me the last 12 hours. I just need help on how to start? What keeps people motivated to staying on this path?
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Welcome to our amazing community!
For me, it’s rock bottom that’s a motivator.
It’s also reflecting on my priorities and values, and realizing that none of my addictions actually aligned with who I am and what I want out of life.
So, what’s led you to this point of questioning? Where is the dissonance in your life?
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Not being able to sleep at night because the feeling of anxiety that my heart is going to just stop and I will die. And that maybe it’s not the worse thing, but I have a much to live for. A wire, a great job, and yet I continuously push myself the drink every single time I get started on the drinking. The financial burden and decision making that come into question. It’s just time. But on the other hand, the social pressure to continue doing what I’m doing. That what is holding me back as I start this journey for the fist time
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You’ve listed so many great reasons. Reasons that affect you personally. Society changes. Many times, we project ourselves as being society or the world.
There are reasons you continue, and they are valid, real, and can be scary to confront. I highly suggest confronting those reasons with a therapist and at AA meetings.
You’ve taken the first step! And it’s a big one! Now steady yourself and prepare for a second step.
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Check out this thread and have a good read into the mentioned threads there.
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Maybe try ameeting they will help ,helped this old guy wish you well
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