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Diary of an Alcoholic Post Seven

Triggers ‘Triggers’ was the general theme of the alcoholic recovery meeting this week, prompted by a rather harrowing account of a fellow recoverer’s recent descent back into the pit of excessive alcohol consumption.  Exactly what triggers this and many other types of behaviour or response is an interesting, albeit difficult, question to answer. In normal [...]

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Diary of An Alcoholic Post Six

More new faces at the meeting today. Nice to see such a variety of different types of personality. Tolerance presented itself as the theme of the meet and it was very thought-provoking.  Most seemed to think that tolerance was a good thing and to an extent, I agree.  However I also think that there are [...]

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Diary of an Alcoholic Post Five

What Would Be The Point So far so good.  I am looking after myself and following the suggestions in that wonderfully helpful little book I received from AA called ‘Living Sober’.   What a great title!  As support for an alcoholic in recovery it draws the emphasis away from not drinking and places it squarely where [...]

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Diary of an Alcoholic Post Four

Now Is All We Have The alcohol recovery meetings continue to offer real help, real support and a real way of evaporating feelings of isolation.  Super-effective. Problems persist, though, as problems tend to do.  I keep thinking about how things would have been different if I had not been mucked about with my summer work, [...]

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Diary of an Alcoholic Post Three

Nothing Happened! Week two of my diary of recovery. My second Alcoholic Anonymous meeting was lovely and I went for coffee and had a lovely chat afterwards with a couple of the guys.  So good to talk with people who have total empathy.  I never experienced anything like it.  So powerful. I had a good [...]

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Diary of an Alcoholic Post Two

How Weird Was That? With no real idea where the thought came from, no feelings of doubt or reservation and with my former serious scepticism mysteriously absent, the decision came to me to go to my first ever Alcoholic Anonymous meeting. I am still trying to get my head around exactly how and why (now) [...]

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Diary of An Alcoholic Post One

Testimony of An Alcoholic Foreword: Testimony of an alcoholic is written by an alcoholic who was drinking at the time of writing the article.  His story is a powerful testimony of his awareness of his situation. He wants to share his story with you. “Alcohol has a very long history in just about every culture [...]

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