Go build it for us
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This is funny!
, and If I can only accept I cannot control anything… Then I’ll be free right 
It can get me restless sometime realizing I can only influence me. It is a new spiritual view of life and I guess/hope it will grow on me just like sobriety does.
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Would you walk in to a room full of diabetics who successfully managed their disease for many years by following a certain diet, exercise and medication regiment and go “oh that’s great that you all got this under control, but I’m special and it won’t work for me. I’m just going to try real hard not to have diabetes”?
Would you go to an HIV clinic where everyone is undetectable using medication and go “that’s great and all but medication doesn’t work for. I read about this place in Mexico that can just magically cure me in 30 days.”
Anyone want to guess where this is going?
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My guess, death.
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That’s actually a better answer than what I had in mind.
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Hahaha surprised ya there.
I get where your coming from and my comment was more directed to external stuff then internals…
We can’t be blamed for what we get. We are however responsible for how we treat ourselves right 
On that topic it is 01:00 over here I’m out.
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What if a lot of those diabetics kept failing and eatin cookies. Would you still think that room was your best option?
I get what you’re trying to say but this analogy doesn’t really work. There are very specific ways to deal with conditions like HIV and diabetes, treating alcoholism can be a bit more personal and varied.
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Then they clearly haven’t treated their disease.
I dunno, I know addicts and alcoholics love to think they are special and can do it their own way.
But the point I’m really getting at is that there’s probably 5-10 different, yet tried and true methods towards sobriety.
- 12 steps
- CBT/REBT
- Therapy.
- Medication (best with therapy)
- Non 12 step programs
- Rehab
- Outpatient
Yet you see people here giving excuses as to why none will work before they even try em. And honestly, those people who talk about the things that don’t work are usually relapsing.
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Things don’t work for me because i am an asshat
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This is a Mike-drop post.
Don’t forget…you should ask the addict what they need right in this moment.
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My mom used to swear that her diet totally controlled her diabetes (exercise was never for her) yet every time she went to the doctor they needed to up her meds.
But she was never good at doing what she needed to do for her health.
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Not drinking also works.
True.
I don’t get drunk when i don’t drink.
Fucking crazy.
On reflection, i should probably have tried this method sooner and with greater conviction
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I just spat a mouth full of tea up the wall reading that comment.
@SassyRocks I know your had a long and hardcore Carey of drinking and drugging you must be in the one prevent of addicts/alcoholics who can do this without any of those, I dof my cap. 
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Bless you Gareth 
Hair New Year
I don’t know about all that. I had this app and lots of yoga and meditation…this app helped me a lot. And time. Lots of time between the I know I have to stop drinking to the actual stopping of drinking. But yeah, 40 years in the game is a long time. Glad it is behind me.
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