Binge drinking is the hardest to overcome? I recently heard this. And of all places it came from Dr. Drew on Celebrity Recovery (or Rehab) on VH1....... My disease has conditioned my mind and body to be able to go for periods of time without alcohol......Then, out of no where, it blindsides me! ...Now, it makes sense. I was always able to stop drinking, but I wasn't able to STAY stopped! Knowledge is a wonderful thing......
Just thought I'd share that. Figured (maybe) I can't be the only one who didn't know this.......
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-- Edited by Doll at 07:55, 2008-01-12
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Well Doll, You AREN'T the only one who didn't know this, because I didn't either. And yes, it makes perfect sense to me as well. When I have relapsed and binged, the consequences did not seem as severe, and my body always bounced back a lot quicker, because my organs did not become re-conditioned to function only with large quantities of daily alcohol.
The thing that I guess I have to keep in mind, is that people can die the first night they 'go back out'. I have seen this happen! Folks can go to jail, jump off bridges, get into accidents, and get into all kinds of horrific consequences from just one night of drinking. Also, I am 100% certain that demon alcohol is just waiting to get me in it's grasp again and have me drinking daily again, just as it did when I first discovered AA.
Your post helps me to me ever more vigilant, and I thank you. To think that I could ever take one drink safely is a lie, and meetings, prayer and the Steps are a regular MUST for this alcoholic to continue on in a better life.
Joni
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Well I'll be darned. I learn something new every day!
I was a binge drinker myself.
I'll never forget experiencing the progression of this disease firsthand when I went back out to drink after 4 years in AA.
I promised myself I was just going to tie one on 'once', be done with it, and walk right back into the rooms of AA!
I even got myself a designated driver that night; I was going to drink responsibly!
Then I was good all week till about Thursday, and then the restless, irritable, and discontented started wearing on me! Friday you could forget about staying sober.
Second night that I went out drinking, I completely blacked out. I had never done that before.
I woke up in my own bed, alone by the way, lol, wondered where my car was.
Ran out to the garage and there it was. I had made it into the garage, hit my oldest daughter's bicycle, and it was smashed between the car and the back wall.
Thank God I didn't kill anyone that night.
I was out there binge drinking every weekend for two months.
It didn't quite work out the way my sick alcoholic mind had planned it.
Go figure!
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wow tenderheart, that's some scary stuff right there. It's funny I always say that I was a maantanence drinker and a binge drinker because I drank a fair amount every day and got really hammered every wednesday and all weekend. So this might be right, cause I relapsed about 30 times in 2 years before I got it.
When I first came into AA, I heard ya'll say, " I come to meetings everyday cause I drank everyday" - MY mind heard "come to meetings like you drank" - sooooo this old gal only made meetings 1-3 times a week! Pfft! and that was only when it was convenient. What I've just come to realize is that even though I didn't drink everyday, I'm still an alcoholic everyday! Took a bit for that one to take hold, "sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly". But, I've only missed 3 meetings since my relapse and that wasn't by choice.
I plan my day around a meeting, now....Not my meeting around my day....
I think I'll keep coming back.
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