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DDman70 t1_j6i1mng wrote

I use Reddit on a 3rd party app called Infinity, so I can only speak on how to do it via this app, but there's a button that allows you to paste a link and overwrite your own text over it. I would imagine it's in the official app too as well as the web versions.

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hawkbit92 t1_j6hxdls wrote

I quit back in December for health reasons as well as my issues with bingeing.

I was diagnosed with lymes disease back in early November, took my medication, but then once I completed my treatment I decided to "celebrate" with some drinks with friends. We basically drink from 1pm until 10pm non stop. I ended up getting a fever and horrible body aches and joint pains. I had never had that prior to my diagnosis. Needless to say, I had to stop alcohol all together. So after that I bought a couple books on sober living and the science behind alcohol and how it's terrible for our health. The books have kept me on track and have helped me completely change my mindset towards alcohol. I no longer have cravings for it and can go out to eat or even go to bars and order a ginger ale instead of a beer.

I have also noticed that I used alcohol as a source of calming my anxiety in social situations. Without it now though, I have learned to be content with who I am out in public and have learned how to sit with my emotions and feelings. It's actually quite nice to be out with friends and have a clear mind!

I also enjoy the feeling of waking up without hangovers anymore from sound and restful sleep. My skin has cleared and my brain is no longer foggy (lymes related but elevated by alcohol). I started going to the gym again and my energy levels have improved so my physical body has really changed for the better.

I'm just overall really happy with quitting. It's really changed my life perspective.

All of these things combined have really helped me stay motivated! :)

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yendor4 t1_j6hwba5 wrote

My last drink was in June of 2014. I had an unfortunate incident and came very close to losing my life. I decided right then and there that I had consumed my last drink. I am now 51 years old and have several chronic conditions. To be honest with you, I'm so glad I quit. Whenever I feel like taking a drink, I just tell myself that alcohol is no longer for me.

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Recent studies have shown that alcohol is just not good for the human body. Not even two drinks a day or a few a week. Try and tell yourself that you are setting up future you for a healthier life. Good luck to you!

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querkle-11 t1_j6hufmk wrote

Perhaps cutting alcohol altogether isn’t the best strategy at first. Try reducing from your current intake. After decades of drinking issues here and there, what helped me what something I got from the book Atomic Habits.

I thought, “What kind of person do I want to be as it relates to alcohol?” Do I want to be someone who has 1-2 drinks with friends? Yes. Do I want to be someone who needs a drink at the end of the day to unwind? No.

Alcohol is a poison and not healthy for the body in any way. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a place for it in society. What kind of person do you want to be as it relates to alcohol?

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ScarletAdventure t1_j6hu4oq wrote

I don’t drink anymore at all just because honestly it makes me feel like shit and puts my anxiety through the roof. Every time I have a drink in my hand I just would think about how anxious I feel.

Not very helpful for you I don’t think, but I can tell you that not drinking gets easier every time you decide to have a water or a soda instead of that drink. I feel way more in control of my everyday life since quitting drinking and I only drank on weekends.

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Massive_Potential_21 t1_j6hisv0 wrote

There is a book , can't remember title exactly but I think it was '21days to change a habit' or 30 days. Something like that , I can't remember title exactly but it makes sense in the sobriety realm. I posted earlier about my tenures of sobriety on off on off on again and so on. After reading some more posts I thought of few more things to share. You mentioned anxiety and depression. Alcohol is a depressant . Period. You are depressed because of the neurological effects and the brain chemistry changes from putting the depressant elixir in your body. Anxiety is just a neurological by product of depression. So not only does it causes depression in the life of the drinker , alcohol in my opinion is the creator of huge amounts of anxiety. Just everything about it to detoxing yourself from booze with the fear of going into delirium tremors and seizures not to mention just the type of life style that it creates for the drinker is always , in my opinion very problematic. Even though alcohol is legal , everything you do with it from the point of purchase is illegal. Whether you are walking down the street drinking or driving. Alcohol is the most destructive 'legal' thing I can think of. It destroys lives , jobs , families, your body , destroys relationships and so on . So how do I stay sober now , I mentioned this time 5 years. So I had to realize , this just for me, I am an addict , I need something to give me that special feeling , or little zest , or edge off life type of feeling. I compare it to the feeling one would get with just maybe 3 or four beers , you know that life is good buzz, but that is so not really ever happening in the life of the real problem drinker. I didn't mention it earlier so will now , that whole 3 ,4 beers , social type of drinking , I was doing that in middle school. My freshman year in highschool I basically had a near death experience after being in a drunken driving accident , I was passenger of truck that drove off a bridge 100 feet, and they shocked me back to life , just like in the movies , anyways by sophomore year I had keys to grandma s liquor cabinet and was drinking , binge drinking everyday , bc I had access to huge suums of liquor. I realize now as an adult that my childhood was just totally so bizarre and abnormal but nonetheless I am 42 now and proud as hell to be alive. Just because I've heard it my entire life from double a meetings that I was doomed. At 14 I heard I wouldn'take it to 18 , then they said 21, 30, then 40 and I barely made it there but I did. But I realized the only thing that really doomed me was the aa manuscript on life. I was hypnotized , I thought I had to drink , bc I was an alcoholic, but that's all hogwash. I was taught by the super hypnosis of double a that I was doomed , but once I really decided fuck double a , I am staying sober this time for myself meetings or no meetings , I want to live and fuck all the bullshit in the meetings and maybe once in a while self medicate with a substance that I can handle , without becoming full blown fucked up. So this time I'm on methadone. From another addiction , but it gives me that feeling full effect. Suboxone works too. When I was prescribed Suboxone I only drank one time in 2 years. So hope that helps. Good luck.

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