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I am desperate to stop drinking alcohol. It seems like I cannot make it a day without. Just some background in '06 I decided to try an IOP program after 3 months, I was recommended to do 30 days in "h**ll" for inpatient therapy. AA does not do it for me. Based on that info. does anyone have an idea of what I should do now? I also suffer from extreme OCD and Bi-polar 1. I have so many battles going on in my head, I need some serious guidance. I have a psych. for meds, and see an OCD counselor. She wants me to get off the alcohol so I can just work on the OCD. Life is looking pretty grim for me. I feel like I stand alone. My husband is very supportive.
I am bouncing around ideas - should I detox - then enroll in an IOP? Should I try another 21 day program (which makes me sick) I had a horrible experience at my local one. I didn't get my completion coin because I drank on my weekend pass and had a friend sneak out a window to buy alcohol.
My life *****. Anyone have any suggestions?
I am bouncing around ideas - should I detox - then enroll in an IOP? Should I try another 21 day program (which makes me sick) I had a horrible experience at my local one. I didn't get my completion coin because I drank on my weekend pass and had a friend sneak out a window to buy alcohol.
My life *****. Anyone have any suggestions?
Unfortunately no matter what road to recovery you choose it will ultimately end in failure on less you truly want to stop.
Doing this because for any other reason other than the fact that it is destroying you is not going to work. You need to look deep within and be prepared to make some hard decisions about your life as it is now, it is never going to be the same again. For me it is such a joy not to have the mental anguish I had to endure, the fear that was all consuming, the madness, the paranoia.
I some times forget how bad it was and think to my self…ok I could maybe just have say 4 drinks on a Friday night….I did this in the past in one of my failed attempts to stop….within a short period I was back to the old ways.
This is why today I go to AA, to remind myself that I am just that one drink away from insanity.
After 3 months in a secure mental health unit, 28 days in rehab where I was on the one hand a voluntary patent but because it was secure I could not leave without permission I drank. I lasted over a year but the old voice in the head said come on you will be ok.
This despite the fact that I knew what the pain I would suffer would be like, the fact that I spent many nights in prison cells or sleeping where I collapsed in a drunken stupor, waking up in my own filth. This was my reality, is my reality and the reason I will go to any lengths to stay sober.
Ray
Doing this because for any other reason other than the fact that it is destroying you is not going to work. You need to look deep within and be prepared to make some hard decisions about your life as it is now, it is never going to be the same again. For me it is such a joy not to have the mental anguish I had to endure, the fear that was all consuming, the madness, the paranoia.
I some times forget how bad it was and think to my self…ok I could maybe just have say 4 drinks on a Friday night….I did this in the past in one of my failed attempts to stop….within a short period I was back to the old ways.
This is why today I go to AA, to remind myself that I am just that one drink away from insanity.
After 3 months in a secure mental health unit, 28 days in rehab where I was on the one hand a voluntary patent but because it was secure I could not leave without permission I drank. I lasted over a year but the old voice in the head said come on you will be ok.
This despite the fact that I knew what the pain I would suffer would be like, the fact that I spent many nights in prison cells or sleeping where I collapsed in a drunken stupor, waking up in my own filth. This was my reality, is my reality and the reason I will go to any lengths to stay sober.
Ray
The reason i am clean and sober today is becuz of me. I live in the real world with my addictions. I have to keep my guard up and live in the now. Usually the stats are stacked against us when dealing with addictions and are not always very encouraging. Today i am alive and clean and for that i am grateful......sara
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in 1983 when i was going the rounds of many AA meetings i heard a lead from a man sober 30 years.In regards to the higher power concept he said my concept of this is always changeing and that is good for that means i will not allow myself to get stagnant in my recovery!i was very comforted/validated in that statement.
My experience with CBT was one of going because of pressure from family.
I feel if I was in a good place wanting to get sober it would have been fantastic.
I have returned to it and it is helping me to live in the now not the regrets of the past.
I have some negative stuff going on in my head but I am slowly learning these are just thoughts witch are racing around in there….
A thought is just that, a thought, it is not fact.
I feel if I was in a good place wanting to get sober it would have been fantastic.
I have returned to it and it is helping me to live in the now not the regrets of the past.
I have some negative stuff going on in my head but I am slowly learning these are just thoughts witch are racing around in there….
A thought is just that, a thought, it is not fact.
Wow. Guess you weren't expecting a monstrous debate over your initial question ...
If AA isn't your cup of tea, there are medical detoxes where you're monitored closely, and the withdrawal is handled humanely. You have to be more or less "imprisoned" because you're out of control.
They'll let you out for a smoke, you'll meet some interesting people, and you won't have access to alcohol.
Go.
If AA isn't your cup of tea, there are medical detoxes where you're monitored closely, and the withdrawal is handled humanely. You have to be more or less "imprisoned" because you're out of control.
They'll let you out for a smoke, you'll meet some interesting people, and you won't have access to alcohol.
Go.
Oh -- On CBT: If you can find a therapist versed in this promising field, add it to your list of aids -- combined with whatever you're doing.
While Burns's "Feeling Good" was the only source for so long, it seemed, have a look at "Mind Over Mood," Greensberger and Padesky, 1996, endorsed by Aaron T. Beck himself.
It's about $25, but you might find it at a library. Fascinating new field, and quite promising for those addicted / dependent on substances, as well as for depression, often the root cause, along with -- let's be honest -- pathetic coping skills and instant gratification, of folks who've been where we've been.
If you order it, it's published by THE GUILFORD PRESS, New York, London
While Burns's "Feeling Good" was the only source for so long, it seemed, have a look at "Mind Over Mood," Greensberger and Padesky, 1996, endorsed by Aaron T. Beck himself.
It's about $25, but you might find it at a library. Fascinating new field, and quite promising for those addicted / dependent on substances, as well as for depression, often the root cause, along with -- let's be honest -- pathetic coping skills and instant gratification, of folks who've been where we've been.
If you order it, it's published by THE GUILFORD PRESS, New York, London
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