Hello everyone, I'm Mouse :) and this is the Bus I've been on a while now!
It's filled with a variety of drinkers. Those that do, those that don't, and those who are desperate to STOP but hide it, or embrace it and get the help they NEED.
'Help' in whatever form works for them, your friend or you. Be it AA, a Local Community Alcohol Counselling Group, your GP, your family/friends, this thread or even a combination of all of the above!
You have to want to stop drinking more than wanting to breathe.
I know that right now, that may sound like a ridiculous goal.
They got sober, One Day At A Time then came here during the process to chat about it, discuss their feelings, but more than anything else, their experiences HELPED OTHERS TO BELIEVE that they too could get dry.
They might not get dry and stay dry, sometimes they'll be lying about their consumption, fooling themselves as well as others
BUT when the posters do get dry for good, come back and post to help others with their tricks of the trade or just to say 'I did it!!' my heart jumps for joy because that person, poster, Brave Babe has gone through hell and back, lived to tell the tale and now wants to share that with the rest of the Bus to see if one simple trick or technique will put them on the track to recovery, sobriety, to the life that they want to lead :)
There's two saying that have appeared to stick with us -
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- The Vulnerable Need Our Support, Not Our Judgement
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We all have our own reasons for starting to drink 'too much', we all have an excuse don't we.... we all have a "but....."
Well, as I say to Nemo (who you will get to hear about 
) - goats butt!
And for those of you who want to know a bit more -
HERE IS THE MOST RECENT THREAD
AND THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN, OVER FOUR YEARS AGO!!!
See you soon x