Feel like drinking

[householdrmk]

I feel so low and feel like drinking for the first time since I gave up. I've had such a shit day today. I've made a huge mistake which will cost me a lot of money. to get right. I've just come out of hospital and feel so low and alone. I have no one to talk to and feel like buying a bottle of wine and watching crap TV.

Don't just don't.

Oh please don't. I can't pretend to understand the urge to drink, I can only liken it to when I went years without smoking and then went through a bad time in life and smoked.

I hated myself for it. I was annoyed I undone all the good work. Don't feel that way tomorrow because you drank.

You must be strong to give up to start with. Stay strong 💪🏼

Please don't do it. Things have gone wrong but this won't put it right or help in anyway - it will just become yet another thing that has gone wrong. Could you phone the Samaritans just to talk to someone? Get yourself something nice to eat, a nice non alcoholic drink and watch some crap tv. You've done so well, don't throw it all away xxx

Go and make yourself your dinner now, as fast as you can and eat it. You won’t want to drink so badly after that. When you’ve eaten, sit down with a nice cup of tea and think about how you can make the situation - and yourself - better. Please don’t drink. I’m craving one now too but the dinner is on and I know after I’ve eaten it I’ll be glad I refrained!

Which crap tv ? Because it’s this country I’d agree, get the housewives on

If you do it tomorrow you will feel shit, from alcohol and from giving in.

You'll either be straight back on the band wagon while slapping yourself on the wrist to rationalising it to yourself and end up back where you began.

It'll be 'i can just have one and stop' then two, then the bottle, then you have to give it up all over again, go through the stress, worry, anxiety, fear...all because you had one bad day you give yourself many.

Buy a fat chocolate bar, eat a whole cheese cake, do not buy a bottle.

Thank you everyone for being kind. I cleaned up the kitchen, had already eaten and made a big cup of tea. I'm just feeling low and something I was really looking forward to didn't happen and I feel exhausted always having to manage to get through something.

I gave up booze completely before the first lockdown, have no had a drop since and today is where I'd like to sink a nice bottle of red. It would make me feel a bit better, I can taste it already but I have no booze in the house.

@justthecat

Which crap tv ? Because it’s this country I’d agree, get the housewives on

Just some shite. Last of the Summer Wine! I'm going to put Seinfeld on and try to take my mind of it.

Hope you managed to stay on the horse and if you didn't today is another day and you can start again.

@FinallyFluid

Hope you managed to stay on the horse and if you didn't today is another day and you can start again.

Thank you, I managed to stay off booze but it's the first time I've been really tested. Awful day yesterday and I had no one to comfort me. I have a drinking problem, I am glad I've stopped drinking but really fancied sinking a bottle of nice red.