I'm not drinking anywhere near what I was at the beginning of the year. I've worked my way down to a couple of beers a night or a couple of glasses of wine a night (at the same time as reducing on benzos) with a few alcohol free days thrown in there but it's started to creep back up towards a full bottom of wine a night. Guess I'll have to try for an alcohol free night again today before things start getting too heavy again.
Be careful, Owen (Goodness I must appear annoying with you lately lol). Seriously though, I've had issues with alcohol and you won't believe how easy it is to get back to where you were before - even if you're not drank in months/years. I also know this because a close relative is a heavy drinker. And they've been link 7+ months and within days of starting up drinking again, have gone back to drinking the heavy amounts that they were drinking before they quick. I also found that when I was drinking and stopped, it was only a week or so before I was drinking similar to before. I've heard many other stories of the same.
It's up to you, of course what you do with your life. I was advise you to you that if you even you've a problem with alcohol to complete abstinence from it. However, I am a hypocrite and find this difficult to do myself. Alcohol is a tricky one. Have you been on the
Alcohol Discussion Thread on
Sober Living ? If you haven't, there's people going through similar, some who are now abstinent, they may be able to help you or at least listen to you and lend some support.
Also - don't be hard on yourself, you've given up Heroin, giving up benzos, alcohol and are planning on coming off 24 mg buprenorphine - that's a lot for ANYONE to deal with - so the odd slip you can surely forgive yourself for?! I found just giving up opiates difficult and can't begin to imagine what you're going through.
Evey
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Your whole 'everyone out but me' attitude reeks of self-pity (imo of course), and this will get you nowhere. Expecting people to behave in a certain way because you have done something will get you nowhere. Trying to be happy for other people when you're not happy in yourself will get you nowhere. These are the hard facts of life that apply to everyone, me included. Only by moving away from this way of thinking will you be able to move forward and form some kind of happiness for yourself. When you stop getting angry about the way things are, and start getting busy with acceptance and motivation to change the things you can that will make you happier you will start seeing results.
Ah this was the post I REQUESTED to be taken down as you reported our private conversation (from PMs) which is against BLUA and had I have done so, would have incurred an infraction/warning for sure.
Just to let you know that you are WRONG. You're situation is different to mine and I don't take kindly to you or anyone else accusing me of "self-pity." We, none of us, live each other's lives. We just read the "texts." A flaw of yours, Owen, is that you make a lot of assumptions. For instance, you assumed that I have not been emotionally abused based on a small amount of information that I had put in a post - that another member had to pull you up on it. Your comparison of us both "not going out on that Sunday evening," I seemed to remember you going out on the Saturday day. I have NO friends, am in over £5,000 worth of debt and the only SOCIAL ACTIVITY I have is Bluelight. I do NOT come here to be accused of self-pity. I come here for empathy and understanding from like-minded individuals. Please do NOT compare our lives. No offense but I find it offensive. In fact only a few members of staff know some events in my life so please do not judge me - or anyone like that until you know the facts.
I'm not trying to argue with you but this is something that needs saying.
Can someone PLEASE remove that post that Owen wrote to me and allow me the privacy I deserve as information he has put in that post was stuff I wrote in a private message, as I know PMs are not allowed to be repeated, believed that my privacy would be respected.
Owen - I'm not arguing with you and will still be supportive towards you - but you did ask me to read through the post and I did. So have replied to it publically.
Evey
EDITX2 Sorry the quote has gone wrong.
Evey