I’m just so fed up of feeling guilty for drinking and regretting my behaviour and choices. It’s destroying my mental health but then I’m tempted to drink to forget about it 
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Yeah I’ve been using alcohol to cope for waaaay too long and it’s starting to frighten me how much I rely on it and my behaviour and decision making is so poor when I have been drinking
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Shame and guilt are feeders of addiction. Sobriety helps to have more perspective and work on forgiveness and being redeemed.
I am in the process… only 4 days sober
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I am the say way, I say that I am because you never fully recover from addiction. Nevertheless it helped me that I had to release my fears. Whatever issues you have, whatever is in the past that is tormenting you still, you need to let it out and be free from it. I held back for way to long and made myself the victim not realizing I was just victimizing those that I love.
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Welcome!! Boy don’t I know that feeling. It sucks. I hated myself and my weakness and all the crap I did and said and how my heart hurt and my soul. And especially how I.let.my.self.down.over.and.over.and.over for so freakin’ long. What a mess of a life I had created.
The beauty is, you do not have to feel that way ever again. You can let go of that version of your self. You know how drinking self is, what drinking self offers. What you don’t know is who sober self is, what sober self offers. Sober self is a new entity…a living breathing new person just waiting to shine. It isn’t easy or pretty or comfortable becoming a new self…but it is…YOU are…worth it. It takes time, we find ways to move thru our rough times…but we can and do get sober. Don’t count yourself out. Fight for new sober you. You won’t regret that. A hangover and all that other crap…that you will regret. Pick sober you. 
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Cheers thank you
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I don’t have to regret what I’ve done now that I’m sober
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