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is anyone interested in an alchohol-free / addiction thread?

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youretoastmildred · 28/10/2013 12:30

My name is youretoastmildred, and I am an alcoholic.

I am 42 days alcohol free.
have been a problem drinker for a long time and have often convinced myself that moderate drinking will be fine. It never stays moderate.
In this 42 days there have been certain key people that I have not had to see. I have 2 events coming up with them that will be massive triggers and I am looking for support (and very very willing to offer what support I can to anyone else)

I have lurked on Brave Babes and it seems to be a thread of successfully moderate drinkers, and alcoholics who can't / don't actually stop. (The poster who started those threads by stopping completely isn't there: I also remember some 12 step nondrinkers from the early days who don't seem to be there any more. There are a lot of posts by people enumerating what they are having or will have and whether or not this is ok but I don't see much actual NOT DRINKING EVER which is what I need to do)

By contrast, the AA meeting that I attend, while it will always have a couple of people back after a relapse, is mostly packed with people with months and years sober.

Is anyone interested in an actual not-drinking or beating other addictions thread? I am NOT saying I am not interested in talking to those who relapse. I am saying that I DO want to talk to people who aim to stop drinking.

any takers?

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KateSMumsnet · 09/11/2013 16:06

Hello everyone,

We're just posting as we understand a few posters have concerns about how the two sobriety thread in Relationships, this thread and the Brave Babes threads, are going to co-exist.

While we do absolutely recognise that posters are entitled to express their own personal viewpoints and relate their own experiences on the BB threads, we'd really like posters here to also remember that the BB threads have been an enormous source of support to many posters, and it would be a real shame if any new posters were put off from posting there after reading posts implying that it's unsupportive. (Of course, it's completely fine to say that complete abstinence is the aim of this thread, and that this is what you think differentiates it from the BB threads.)

We're not implying that anyone on this thread has been posting in an inappropriate way, we're just saying that we'd be v grateful if they could run the rule over posts before posting and have a think about whether what they're saying could be interpreted as mean or hyper-critical.

Ultimately we think both threads can be great sources of support and we'd really like them to live side-by-side in a mutually supportive way

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