Mine is depression I was in a horrible stage in life and used drugs to mask my depression only making it worse so when I’m sober it’s like all the pain I’ve been masking for almost a year comes back 10 fold this app is helping me get thru loneliness and depression even if you guys give a simple “heart” it helps I love you all if nobody has told you that today because I definitely haven’t heard it in a while
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My biggest trigger was waking up. I hated the life I had created for myself. Drinking was the easiest way to live with myself. I was 1 step away from full on low bottom drunk, if it weren’t for my kids I wouldn’t have kept my job because I would have drank from the moment I woke up, but I did just enough to keep a roof over our heads.
Much better now. Coming up on 8 months sober and I can’t picture myself drinking, I dont fear that I’m missing out in any life and I am comfortable with being who I am.
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Isn’t that the absolute truth!!! I woke up on the weekends and opened a beer as soon as the wife left, or id go to the garage to do some “work” where i had beers stashed before breakfast. Started drinking on the way to work. I was one step away from losing everything i had in life. I cant ever put into words how lucky/blessed i feel to not have hit that bottom.
But, there’s always time to find out so i work my ass off to make sure i never let myself reach that bottom.
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After a day at work I want to drink
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OMG that sounds like me…you should be very proud of yourself
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There was no triggers for me I just wake up go to work and all day think how much and what I will have.
I only had enough so not be over limit as all day job was driving.
Guess what was happening on day off?
Yep, more drinking and I was good person only drink in evening.
How did I maneged?
Easy, wake up in evening and blackout by mornig, and holidays were lovely, just I can not remember them…
Would you believe somebody with nearly doctors degree doing it to himself?
Even writing about it makes me depressed and look for drink…
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Main one is hearing about tragedies. It skyrockets my anxiety and makes me feel so helpless. And at this point I’d also agree on the just waking up and having to face myself everyday.
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Stress at work has always been my trigger, I try to give 100 per cent every day and end up worn out, stressed and tired, so what better thing to do than have a drink to relax, but of course, one drink is never enough and slowly but surely, 1 becomes 3 and then down the rabbit hole we go, till we feel worse than ever and still have to get up now more tired from not sleeping properly and having to get up for work, foggy headed, feeling sick and miserable. So the cycle starts again. Started yoga to relax and other forms of exercise. Restarted counter 6 days in and feeling great!! Stay strong everyone 
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1 day at a time I get to where I want to be. Life’s too good to piss away on being drunk.
God is good. He provides.
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I’ve been clean for 126 days, and this is my first time getting clean. My trigger is passing an urgent care because that’s where I got my prescriptions. I shudder everytime I see one knowing how many times I went to them with exaggerated symptoms to get what i needed. 
Wouldnt say i have one trigger i drank for sadness, bad news, sunshine outside, bad day at work, good day at work, family members passing away, break ups, to tolerate a relationship, to start a relationship (nerves) list could go on its so bad but im determined every day i wake up now not to drink one day at a time 
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Panic attacks. Friday afternoons. Sunny days. Family events, parties, drinking based holidays.
Yesterday I had the strongest urge to drink that ive had in my 160 days. Had a panic attack as a result of fighting with my family and literally was just sobbing an yelling “I don’t know what to do” because I really didn’t. I ended up packing a bag and driving out, got a dirty chai, then went to the gym for a long time. 100% certain that 6 months ago I’d be puking right now.
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Oh God I forgot about airports and packing. I did both sober for the first time recently. They REALLY sucked, and I had no idea how deeply I linked them with alcohol!
My triggers would be if I was angry and upset, being bored with nothing to do, if I’d had a good /productive day and rewarding myself, the feeling that I was missing out because my friends were in town drinking and I was sat at home feeling sad trying to relive my youth and finally if I was anxious about being alone
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Breathing was a trigger. I drank every day. I rejected reality and replaced it with my own. At the end I was not a functioning person in the real world.
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You guys don’t know how much these responses mean to me I’m thinking about you guys before I do anything stupid even tho we never met in person your sharing your deepest feeling’s with me it’s awesome ️
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