I’m proud to be an addict, we are the cleverest people I know. We are wise enough to know when enough is enough, we open our mind to so many things that never interested us. We learn about our bodies we learn medicine, science, meditation, forgiveness, appreciation, nutrition, exercise, communication, patience… this list is endless. The only thing I read before was the percent of alcohol on the side of a bottle… I think we’re doing OK for an addict. What have you learned about yourself?
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What about choosing to poison yourself daily is clever?
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I think you’ve missed my point.
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My greatest achievement ever is being an alcoholic. Without my alcoholism, I wouldn’t have a program that’s a bridge to normal living 
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There is no choice in the midst of addiction. Only a choice to seek recovery
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I think it’s at our darkest moments we have our best ideas, fight or flight.
What do we say to the God of death?
Fuck you. I’m getting sober 
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Being an addict is nothing to be proud of, don’t use this excuse to hide behind your addiction. I’ll also add all the things you noted are also done by non addicts just as much as addicts.
What this post seems to do is promote addiction???
Everything in moderation.
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Welcome Avocado, to the forum.
I don’t think that anybody is promoting addiction. I think the point that is being raised here is that we should be proud of where we are. No of us planned to become addicts, so we should be proud of the fact that we have chosen a better life for ourselves.
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I personally think I was pretty brilliant st hiding my addiction!!
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Well said i love this 
When you are no longer a victim of your addiction, you become proud of what you’ve become because of it. That’s what recovery is about.
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You are perfectly describing my situation. I am now on my withrawal. 2 an half days. I will never want to touch that poison. Wish me luck.
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I’ve heard at meetings many times “proud to be an alcoholic”. What they mean is that because they climbed their way out of the deep hole of addiction they are now a better person than they ever could ha e been if they never had that struggle.
I’ve even heard the same sentiment used with respect to cancer…that having such a huge health scare you learn to appreciate of every moment of life that you have.
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Your post is kind of contradictory. There is always a choice. Use or not use. We made that choice daily. Choosing to use daily is in my opinion nothing to be proud of as everyone can do that. I would agree with the original post if it said, proud to be a recovering addict, or proud to be clean. Getting clean is the harder choice so imo something to be proud of. But the way the OP is worded is confusing.
This describes my wife very well. Since she had a lump removed her attitude has changed.
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That is exactly what I meant sorry if you got the wrong end of the stick, sounds to me like some people are very angry about their addiction, don’t be negative, first you have to accept what you are then you can work on who you are, that’s when all the positives begin. What I’ve learnt about myself is that deep down inside I have a a strength or stubborness I never new I had.
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No I totally agree with you.
I was just going to post the same thing.
Once we accept everything about where we find ourselves. Then we can move on properly.
The problem here is that addiction is still very much a taboo subject within society.
This can lead to resentment in the addict, the " why me?" Or “why can’t I” This to me is not accepting our situation.
As I said, none of us made a conscious decision to become addicts. But we had to be strong to overcome the desire to drink, we’ve had to look deep within ourselves to work in the reasons why.
This makes us stronger people. Something to be proud of.
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yeah I regret not writing recovering, I couldn’t write clean because mentally I’m never clean, it’s a dirty little niggle sitting in the background waiting for me to give it some attention. But on this journey from books, you tube, you people and myself I’ve learnt so much that I would never even consider, why would I study the workings of the brain and liver if not for the fact I’ve nearly killed them both. My Mrs doesn’t even believe in depression, because she has never had it she says it doesn’t exist and it is people just feeling sorry for themselves. Because she has never studied it she wouldn’t even know she had it. Well I know a lot about depression and I promise you she has definitely suffered in the past. Living with me for 20 years will do that to you. lol
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I totally understand where you’re coming from and also agree, I just think I’ve learnt something from the whole situation.
I don’t agree with this. You are assuming a massive assumption there. You can’t tell where you would be now if you hadn’t drunk. So that statement is defunct.
What the whole point of this thread, I’d say, is that we shouldn’t be ashamed of where we find ourselves. It’s happened, we are doing something about it, we should be proud that we are.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with that.
If we live our life ashamed of where we are how is this going to help us in the long run?
The idea is to rise above this and make ourselves better.
Where we might have been doesn’t come in to it at all.
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