It’s helped so far. Helped me sleep last night though I only got about 4 hours. Have to go to work today and I know I can expect the worst so hoping the Gaba can help carry me through.
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I’m glad it’s helping! The sleep will be rough at first. Last night was night two and was tough for me to get sleep as well. Keep your head up and keep finding reasons to stay motivated. I read that the 21 days of gratitude app helped people stay positive in their beginning of sobriety because if you follow like directed it helps you find things in life that you never noticed or didn’t pay attention to that your ultimately grateful for and this will cause you over time to seek out more of these small things that make you happy. I started it today. Good luck don’t give in or give up.
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Hi! My name is Tasheena, I’ve been 24 days sober, so not long but I’m really happy to have read all these beautiful stories.
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Hi, I’m a 35yr old electrician from Texas. I started drinking when I was 12. I drank a lot and took whatever drugs I could find until my daughter was born when I was 23. After she was born I quit doing drugs but my drinking increased. After awhile my wife asked me to drink only on the weekends. That slowly turned into seeing how much I can consume from Fri night to Sun night. The last couple years I was hitting it especially hard to the point of drinking 1.75 bottles of hard liquor in 3 nights. The last couple of months I went even farther, finishing the 1.75 bottle Saturday night and starting another bottle Sunday night. My hangovers would last for 2 days and my gut would burn and swell. It scared me into stopping. I always felt bad for not being able to stop when my wife asked me. I was never interested until I got scared I was doing permanent damage to myself. I just don’t want my wife and daughter to have the dad/husband that died at 40 because of addiction. I’m 2 weeks sober and really happy about it.
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Hi I’m Pam from Ireland, I have five months clean and sober, it’s the longest I have got in twenty years, the struggleis real, but the benefits really do out way them struggles, nice to me you all xx 
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Honestly it’s worked great today. I’ve detoxed opiates once after only 3 months of use and it was hell.
Today is after 2 years of use and it’s really helping. Only issue I’ve had all day is crapping about every hour (excuse my language) but no flu symptoms or any of what I had last time. Though I’m keeping my fingers crossed as it’s only day 1.
And thanks for the heads up on that app! Downloaded it and did the Day 1 assignment. This is something I for sure will do the full 21 days. Really love the idea of it.
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Hello,
I’m Sam…I binge drink when i’m really depressed. I didn’t have the greatest childhood, but you deal. I went from that to being kicked out when I was 16 by my step dad for doing laundry and moving in with my high school sweetheart. That was emotionally draining and we did eventually have a child. But our arguing became physical so the relationship came to an end. I would binge drink and party when I didnt have my son. I would black out and become sober as my friends were taking me the car to go home. I would beg to stay almost always so i could drink more. Anyway fast forward 2 years and I began a new relationship with my daughters father. Another 5 years and it just ended a few months ago. I havent always been okay emotionally but he was supportive and there for me. Now I’ve been drinking on the weekends to try and make that empty feeling go away. I dont want it to get as bad as it did before. But sometimes I dont know how to handle being a failure…so here we are…
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Love the user name…longtime fan of the Dude
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Hi. I’m John, an alcoholic. This is my first post, but I’ve have been lurking for a few days. Will try to keep it brief! In my 50’s and married with adult children. I have been drinking since college, to some degree, but over the past 6 years my problem escalated and everything fell apart. I lost my last two solid jobs, probably related to my drinking and bad performance. Haven’t worked in 3 years, despite an on-and-off job search. “Blackouts”, fights with my family, weight gain, sickness, lying, depression, etc - you all know the drill! So over a year ago I entered an outpatient program with therapy and meetings. After much work, I was 13 months sober! Many things improved, and I even managed to lose 43lbs, but still wasn’t working, and other issues loomed. But on New Years Eve things began to derail. I bought and drank a bottle of vodka, called it a slip, but then binge drank in the few weeks following. “Slip” became relapse. So… now 5 days sober, and trying to learn from my mistakes and understand where thinking went wrong. I am also now committed to more meetings, and staying connected to the community - so here I am! 
and I’m not giving up! Thanks for listening.
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@JohnSee “It’s not the fall that counts, it’s how you get up.” - Joe Namath
Cliche but rings true. Welcome and stay strong!
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Thank you for sharing and welcome You are here !! That is big and not a failure . I know it is tough experince. Do one day at the time , here u never are alone . Be kind and good to yourself. Work will Come when u are ready . Hope u will like it here
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My name is Sam and I am 35 years old. I am almost through day seven. This is my second attempt to quit drinking. It has been ten years of hard drinking and I really never thought it was a problem, I could quit anytime but I had no reason to. It started as just partying in my early twenties and somehow around twenty five it turned to a bottle of vodka a day. I had my annual exam a year ago and was told my liver counts were bad and I may need a liver biopsy. That was enough to scare me into quitting…well for three months before I fell back into my old bad habits. I went back to the Dr again for hip pain to find out I have avascular necrosis due to my excessive alcohol abuse. I have to have both my hips replaced in the next couple of months. I hope this will be the eye opener I need to me clean and change my life for the better. I was pretty depressed to hear that news but I have come to realize that it could be worse, it’s a second chance for me.
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Hello everyone my name is Tiffany. I’m 26 from Kentucky USA & I’m addicted to everything but my d.o.c were opiate’s. I’ve tried this a few times with my last sobriety time being 2 years but here I am again. I was born into a family of addicts and my “norm” just isn’t what everyone else’s is. Its easy to change people places and things when you have used with a friend but not so much when its your entire family and all you have ever known to be OK. The thing I say I am struggling with most is forgetting what I was taught is OK and learning how to live different. Learning how to feel and cope with life on life’s terms. Its a struggle but here I go again one day at a time. Its good to be here and nice to meet everyone, I look forward to getting help and being a help to anyone I can. … That’s it lol
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@Tiffany_Elliott welcome and it’s nice to meet you. There’s plenty of love and support here. I hope you find what you need to help you live a beautifully sober lifestyle.
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Welcome Tiffany, you will.find lots of kind and compassionate people here with lots of great support and advice. Good luck
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Hey guys. So I’m 1 day and 11 hrs into my journey. I was more than tempted to intorduce myself at the commencement of my timer but thought i might be getting ahead of myself. I’ve decided that now is the right time because a little voice in the back of my mind has been saying that my decision to become sober was an overreaction and i have plenty of control over my drinking. Which I know cant be the truth otherwise I wouldn’t have been so distraught over having had ‘enough’.
Ive had enough of feeling physically shit, of morning regrets, of worrying ill lose everything important to me, of the concerned and frustrated looks from my loved ones, of being scared to get to know myself, of the scattered mindsets and depriving myself of precious memories.
Its sad that i couldnt get through a chore without rewarding myself for with a drink or being glad for an evening shift which allowed me to get blackout drunk the afternoon before hand.
But im going to turn it around. I will learn how to socialise without the ‘assistance’ and eventual embarassment of being drunk. And when i find my inner confidence i will challenge my mental health issues head on with my doctors. Enough self medicating.
Honestly im still scared about the whole prospect. But the stories ive read here have been incredibly inspirational.
Thanks for reading.
All will all be okay, the chaos will calm x
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Welcome @Odin .Sounds to me like you’ve been doing a lot of thinking. Just go a day (and a moment) at a time and try not to look too far into the future. Great sobriety gifts will come but not always in the way you imagined it. Be open-minded and let go of the things that don’t serve your greater self. There’s no destination so relax and enjoy the ride. There may be bumps on that road but we’re here and we understand.
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