What Is So Great About Sobriety?

[BloomInWinter]

Sometimes, they don't die, just wreck their bodies so much they live like poor Jeff Conway...an invalid in constant pain for years until their organs give out.

What is your daughter learning about life from you? From your relationship with her mom? When she ends up with a marriage like yours, how will you feel?

 

[The Albatross]

I am worried. People die from self medication. Michael Jackson, Elvis, etc. I push things. I don't want to be jerk like Charlie Scheen.

Well Doc, there's a good starting place for contemplation. Are you "using" your substances, or are your substances using you? Sounds like you may be interested in making a lifestyle change.

If I don't want to be an addict or alcoholic, then I need to change something fundamentally in myself. The way I cope.
Maladaptive coping with booze almost killed me. I had stopped eating completely or drinking anything other than booze at my worst. "I" became only a mechanism for my body to get alcohol. It has been a slow but steady climb back to reasonable health and the experience was not one I care to repeat. I can cope with other tools than reaching for something on the outside to change the way I feel on the inside.

In recovery circles there is a saying... "The man takes a drink, the drink takes a drink, the drink takes the man."

I wish you the best and hope you will not numb out your worry... if you're worried Doc, there's usually a reason.

 

[Tinyflame]

I think you can find more joy (and peace) than you think you will, Doc.