Stop Drinking

1158 readers

13 users here now

This is a place to motivate each other to control or stop drinking. It is also a place for non drinkers to discuss and share.

We welcome anyone who wishes to join in by asking for advice, sharing our experiences and stories, or just encouraging someone who is trying to quit or cut down.

Please post only when sober; you’re welcome to read in the meanwhile.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Zerlyna@lemmy.world

rosamundi@lemmy.world

The Daily Check-in for Tuesday October 1st - Just For Today, WE Are NOT Drinking! (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by rosamundi@lemmy.world to c/stopdrinking@lemmy.world

11 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Good morning fellow sobernauts, IWNDWYT 😁!

We may be anonymous strangers on the internet, but we have one thing in common. We may be a world apart, but we’re here together!

Welcome to the 24 hour pledge! I’m pledging myself to not drinking today, and invite you to do the same.

Maybe you’re new to c/stop drinking and have a hard time deciding what to do next. Maybe you’re like me and feel you need a daily commitment or maybe you’ve been sober for a long time and want to inspire others.

It doesn’t matter if you’re still hung over from a three day bender or been sober for years, if you just woke up or have already completed a sober day. For the next 24 hours, let’s not drink alcohol!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wish you the best and glad you are excited about your first chip! While I don't regularly go to AA anymore, I'll still walk into an occasional meeting every few months as a healthy reminder about why I don't drink. (I have personal disagreements with that style of program, but that is OK! To each their own.)

But yeah, alcohol is a hell of a drug. I knew all the bad things it was doing to me and I welcomed it. Since I was too chicken-shit to put a gun to my own head, drinking myself to death was the next best option.

And honestly, you sound really excited about the path you are taking and nobody here should give a shit about how far off-topic you might get. You keep exploring your sobriety in your own way! (For myself, if I was sober for a week or so, my ADHD would kick-in hard and my hyperactivity was uncontrollable.)

But yeah, I'll still check-in here every once in a while too. And yeah, you are helping me more than you know, btw. (Drunks share a very unique bond, even if they are half a world apart. )

[–] DrCatface@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

alcoholism really is a universal experience, all the shares are extremely similar. yeah I can't stand the god stuff im hard atheist but i do have a higher power. one guy made his higher power a can of coke he kept in his glove box, then his car got stolen haha.

yep only time ive attempted is when ive been absolutely blind, its such a depressant but I just feel so much freer not having to worry about if I've got enough, withdrawals, money, getting arrested and all the nightmare bullshit that goes with being an alcoholic.

currently hyperactive as fk, nothing to do but play guitar, write, read pamphlets and yell at horses. I need to get busy and be occupied, make some damn mortgage payments I haven't been to work all year, my parents have been looking after everything im so lucky and grateful.

my pleasure my friend thankyou, msg me anytime