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Question:
How did you get sober and stay
sober?
One
Alcoholic/Addicts Answer:
That is a great question!
Normally, if you are like me...you have to be locked up (Jail) or institutionalized (Mental Wards or Treatment Hospitals).
I have been both. However, it does not have to come to that point with you. You can decide that you have had
enough and stop now before it comes to that point. The sad part is, once it comes to that point...you may not be able
to stop anyway! That is the insanity of drug addiction and/or alcoholism. Really...they are the same thing anyway.
Alcohol is a drug!
So, what really kept me sober
was filling my day with meetings, working the steps, a sponsor, the fellowship, service work, recovery literature
and prayer. All of these are important! When you feel like a drink or a drug...CHANGE YOUR THINKING !!!
What is it that you could be doing instead of drinking and/or drugging? When you feel like a drink...go to a meeting,
work a step, call your sponsor, go to an event, seek out a way to volunteer your time, read recovery literature or pray
pray pray !!!
Two KEY WORDS: HOW and
HALT...HOW stands for Honesty, Open Mindedness and Willingness. The most important is probably Willingness to go to
any lengths to stay sober. Get off your butt and get to work!
HALT stands for Hungry, Angry,
Lonely or Tired. If any of these four items are bothering you, you need to take care of them. Eat if you are Hungry,
read literature on anger or talk to your sponsor if you are angry, go to a meeting or an event if you are lonely and sleep
if you are tired.
I have no idea how it works,
but it does. Just do it!
- An Alcoholic Addict
How another Alcoholic stays Sober:
I went to a meeting feeling lost, depressed and full of regrets. A woman came up to me and
told me it would get better as long as I kept coming to meetings. I asked her to be my sponsor and she said yes!
I worked full time and so did she, but I called her before we went to work in the morning and we
went to meetings at night. I realized then that I had a problem.
She always told me to take it one day at a time and not to sweat the small things. So that's
what I did.
Here I am, still doing the same things: I read Daily Inspirations and How to Live Sober.
I keep referring to those books.
I have two sponsors now. My second sponsor is like a sister to me, but I still keep in touch
with my first sponsor.
I had a lot going on two years ago. I did not think I would make it. I didn't want to
drink, but I went into a depression and kept asking, "why me?" My sponsor told me, "Get off the pity pot.
There are people with worse than me" and she was right.
Right now I am going through a medical crisis and I am very scared and upset. I pray to God
every day to keep me sober and watch over my family.
I have two adorable granddaughters 5 and 3-years-old. They have never seen me drink
and I pray that they never will. I know my daughter would never let me see them if I were to start drinking again.
I hope this sheds some light on how I got sober and how I stay sober.
- Nanny
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