I go to daily AA meetings. Almost 6 years sober. MFW surrounded by people in an enclosed space. MFW "Main Office" sends advisory for us not to holds hands during the Serenity Prayer. People next to me coughing at 5 of the last 10 meetings.
How long do I have?? Should I go innawoods and just bring booze and hunt squirrel and start a cult?
Have a drink m8
If youve been sober for almost 6 years why are you even bothering with the meetings? You beat the addiction, faggot, go live your life. As long as you're a weak faggot who needs his binky I mean AA meetings, the addiction will always have power over you
What does it mean to be sober in AA? Not drinking a single sip or not getting shitfaced in x years?
There's truth in that......
none. zero.
Keep going to meetings user, 6 years is a great accomplishment. They do help. But don't go to meetings right now because of the virus obviously. Don't buy alcohol before you bunker down. Easy.
Not even food marinated with wine or spirits?
Don't listen to that guy. Whatever keeps you away from that poison is good for you. Maybe move the chairs back away from the other people at the meetings.
SoCal alcoholic here’s, once I had pasta in a white wine reduction at the office holiday party, next thing I knew I came to in a hotel room in Mexico 2 days later.
So no alcohol, not even marinated or used for sauce.
It's complicated
Hey, BUD!
if it were EASY, it wouldn’t be called ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, now, would it, BUD?
wherever you go, there you are
ya reach rock bottom when ya stop digging!
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Shit man, you have a problem. Isn't the hangover a big turnoff for you? I think that's what has kept me at a social drinker level and not a full blown addict. Hangovers suck ass.
Good, you're not an alcoholic. You wouldn't get it.
Was barely hungover. Just grabbed a couple Xanax (already relapsed, fuck it) from the pharmacy there and ate some tacos.
Pretty sure it has to do with being there for others whom are struggling with their addiction. Op might also be a coach or whatever they call the guy who is supporting another guy who is struggling.
It's been 6 years - you're cured. Don't believe the hype.
Former NA member.
>Cured
Oh, okay. I'll go buy some Vodka right now. Be back later guyz!
Coach=sponsor, in the rooms of AA
>needing a support group to quit being degenerate filth
Sign of weak character bro. Maybe you should quit blaming the alcohol and start blaming yourself for being trash dude. Isn't that the shit those meetings pound into your head anyway?
This. Normal people can keep a bottle of vodka in their freezer for months before taking a shot, but an alcoholic would make that disappear in a couple days. No control.
Nice digits but you don't understand addiction.
I was never an alone drinker. So, doesn't apply to me. But...yes.
AA is full of little cliques, people claim it's a safe-space to open up about your feelings. In reality you're just making yourself vulnerable infront of strangers. I used to be apart of the AA community, and people there talk a lot of shit about other people who attend. Like if someone hasn't been to a meeting a couple days people will start saying "x person is drinking". AA is full of women who constantly bash men and everyone seems to think it's just fine. So fuck AA.
>couple days
Couple hours desu
I tried going to AA once, and then I noticed most of the "sponsors" were faggots trying to fuck straight men while they were emotionally vulnerable and confused. It's a cult of faggots, basically. Smoke weed and get a puppy, that's what I did and I haven't drank in years.
>>Living with an alcoholic
Stay sober.
Don't rekindle that path of destruction you'll create.
Once I was camping, grabbed what I thought was an open Dr Pepper, it was a bud light. As soon as the beer hit my lips, it was like something took over my body and I literally squeezed the cab and shot the beer into my mouth as fast as I could. Chugging it and immediately grabbing another upon completion. Woke up the next morning freezing cold next to where the fire was.
You're right. I don't understand the idea of being a pussy that tries to cop out by saying that I'm not in control of my shitty decisions by blaming a substance. Tell us real men what it's like.
>I go to daily AA meetings. Almost 6 years
Fucking sucks man. Can't trust yourself.
I just had dinner after a meeting with 7 people. Everyone there is of good character. I dunno what you mean. SOME meetings are like that. Not most.
based and 12th step pilled
lol, not in AA but I've downed an entire handle of vodka in a day and felt fine the next day more than once. I'm not proud of it but when you get accustomed to heavy drinking hangovers cease to be an issue.
Your "soul" is just chemical reactions between neurons in your head. You probably have shit habits, but they don't do you in because they are minor. Well some people get the shit end of the stick and get addicted to alcohol. It's a disease.
>everyone there is of good character
>needs a meeting to quit being a degenerate
Nigga pick one.
AA is still a great organization. Despite your pride and thinking you are better, it is still better for 99.99% of people to get help from them than not. Its retarded how almost everyone thinks they are part of the .01% that won't benefit.
Addiction is a series of relapses, and it does not always result in sobriety. It often results in death. Addiction is a disease with a high mortality.
Back when I was pre-pre-med I volunteered at an addiction treatment center. Heroine is a death sentence, and still a roll of the dice even if you do get help. The worst is the cycle of violence and abuse that drugs and alcohol are making worse.
If you are really an addict, get help or you will not quit. Period.
Another time I was cleaning out my room, I found a bag of oxy and viagra. Swore I wasn’t going to do it, stood with it over the toilet, ended up taking half an oxy, next thing I knew I had snorted most of the oxy, took the viagra, called this “sober girl” over l, told her to bring beer, woke up in police detox, apparently I passed out at a stop light going to get more beer.
Well, "real" Alcoholics might tell you that our hangovers ended up in near psychosis. That was my case. Not everyone "hangovers" the same.
>I go to daily AA meetings.
dont care
>Almost 6 years sober.
whoopdefuckingdo - dont care
>MFW surrounded by people in an enclosed space.
ya - thats a thing call "indoors"
>MFW "Main Office" sends advisory for us not to holds hands during the Serenity Prayer.
based - but still dont care
>People next to me coughing at 5 of the last 10 meetings.
youre point being? that people cough?
not your pesonal blog faggot. for some fucking reason that i cannot fathom you felt the need to come on this board and announce to the community that youre a drunk that doesnt drink. the rest of your post is just mental retardation and the best thing you could do is take your faggotry to reddit where i'm sure they will give you hundreds of upvotes. here's a redpill for (you)
Shut the fuck up, you've got some kind of addictive coping mechanism that you're lying to yourself about. Maybe you eat a bit too much, maybe it's video games, maybe it's a rage addiction where you call people faggots on Yas Forums to feel better about your life.
We live in sick times my dude, you wouldn't be here if you were not sick in the head in some way. No one lives a perfectly balanced life and if you lie to yourself it will catch up with you.
>you drink
No.
>hunt squirrels
Yes
>when you get accustomed to heavy drinking hangovers cease to be an issue.
This is false on so many levels.
Nah keep it up. I go to church every weekend and I’m perfect!
MFW I originally wrote this thread about the Corona Virus......
>it's a disease
No it isn't. Not even close. You fucking fairies always say shit like this to try and avoid responsibility. Next you're going to throw that "opioid dependence syndrome" horse shit around like that's a disease. It's not. Just admit that you're a spineless piece of shit and you're doing degenerate shit to feel better about yourself. That's the redpill you pussies really need to swallow. Fucking grow up and miss me with that gay shit.
Keep coming Back user....
Go to online meetings. Duh. Read the Big Book, duh.
Pray. Duh.
>Despite your pride and thinking you are better
Where did i ever disagree with the principals of AA ? I just criticized the people there making it unbearable. I've maintained my sobriety without AA, you people are insufferable.
Its ok, we will have to make due with the 25 other threads in the catalog about it
You sound cool let's go grab a beer
Go away to another thread, so negative.
Addiction is genetic and alters brain chemistry resulting in negative consequences. It is a disease by definition.
It's so he can help others and not be a selfish little faggot cunt like you
Grab a big blue book and go innawoods with your family and start a sobriety cult. Basically how America was founded anyway.
Churchgoers are the worst. Why are you seeking approval from God every week if you aren't doing anything unholy?
Your transference psychobabble isn't going to work on me faggot. I can pass a drug test and a breathalyzer and I didn't need to sit in a room full of pathetic crying pussies to get there. Quit making excuses for yourself bitch, there is no excuse.
My brother has been sober 12 or 13 years and he goes to 2 meetings a year. I'm sober 4 and about the same. It's just their mantra that you have to attend and work steps or you relapse and die. Not true for everyone..
Dude, you should be a Sponsor.
We want to help you.
36 threads actually, decided to go and actually count them. Theres so much to discuss in politics but its seems like Yas Forums only cares for headlines
>addiction is genetic
Cope more. This is bullshit and even you know it.
I'm not in AA or associated with it. Just stating observations. I hope you do not shut it out when you relapse.
Although for op 6 years is a good long amount, different schools of thought might say you are fine with not going to meetings unless you feel an urge to relapse as long as you are in regular therapy. But some schools of thought say to basically be in AA for life.
>Grab a big blue book and go innawoods with your family and start a sobriety cult. Basically how America was founded anyway.
do a flip
>stating observations
false assumptions from a self righteous moron
>you wouldn't be here if you were not sick in the head in some way
Is this actually true? Maybe I’m just completely oblivious but I think I’m having an epiphany right now just from this
That'll be the day.
I drink hard liquor all the time and never felt I was addicted to it. But my friend started drinking around the same time as me and he just couldn't stop. He would drink until he passes out every single day. I tried hiding alcohol from him but always managed to find some. There's a difference between me and him and it's genetic. It's a genetic disease. I can get drunk socially once a week and not think about alcohol for a month. My friend can't go a minute without it racing through his mind.
no. i am in every offtopic shit thread that mods refuse to delete and drop redpills in them in an attempt to salvage this cesspool of offtopic faggotry that you post 2015 newfags have turned this board into. here's a redpill for you too. faggot.
Better than being a drunk retard though
>hurrr durr I heard a fucking cough I guess im dead now
fuck off alchie nigger
The only self righteous one here is you. Look at what your first comment is based on.
Ah what am I doing, its a leaf, of course they act like a faggot.
AA is just a suggestion. It's not the ONLY way. I'm not one of those "true believers". I use it on and off. This month was just harder than most. So I'll sit my ass in the chairs.
Can't you just not drink without going to meetings?
>I say, drunk on a monday night
>my friend has absolutely no self control and acts like a faggot frat boy during rush week
Then you have a shit tier friend bro. Maybe you should do something about that.
True, but there are some fundamentals it provides (such as structure) which makes it the only thing available for vast swaths of the country.
For real, though, I dream all the time about running off to the Appalachian wilderness and dropping out of society.
We have 36 corona threads in the catalog already so having a thinly vielded self improvement thread is a nice change, and this isn't fucking stormfront where every single thread needs to be about the holocaust.
>Can't you just not drink without going to meetings?
I was sober 3 years before I even went to AA. And I was fucking miserable. Literally hundreds of shitposts on 4 Chan. If there ever came a day where our identities was posted online by the FBI or some shit, I'm fucking FUCKED.
"Dry Alcoholism" and 4 Chins does NOT mix