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[realtmg]

As i go into chat and read all the forums, I realize there are many here who would like to pick up and drink. Some fight it some dont. I'm one who has to say no at times when I feel i want a sip.
Feel free to post your temptations here as I've seen I'm not alone.
You posting helps me and others.

GBU

Real

[realtmg]

I guess I'm the only one............

Luv ya


Real

[goldieluvs]

uhhh no real ur not. im sorry bro i just now saw the thread. I struggle with stuff, not necessarily alcohol, other substances tho. I guess a drug is a drug is a drug. Cant say i am to point where u r, but i do see God working in me as i open up more to Him. Thanks for sharing bro

[Dora]

Real you are not alone!

I just saw this post too.

I like to be in control, aware of my surroundings at all times, so to protect myself, so when I start feeling that I've relaxed enough my guard is down I stop.

Yet the next day it'll be harder to not have a drink. Just one! Then the next then the next till the day I can't have one I become a very mean person till I get my addiction.

If I feed my addiction what it wants I'll begin to crave it before noon and even first thing in the morning. If I can't feed my craving everything in life seems dull, depressing, and even irritating. Even the things I love the most.

What makes me want to drink is struggles. Stress so huge I can not bear it. Things I have to pass through.

Sometimes it's the counseling that brings us the past and causes me such great heart ache that I lean on a bottle.

Sometimes It's today, running a business out of my home. A service that sometimes involves authorities.

The two collide. My upbringing put a tremendous fear in me of police and my job at times requires investigations by the police. My fear of them makes me look guilty.

The stress of tending to a group of young ones. Added to that these young ones are broken. Which makes them lash out, misbehave and seek attention. Added to that parents who are selfish and will bully me to get me to change my standards to fit theirs. I'm stressed to the max! The devil loves to use all these things to fill me full of fear and worry. And sometimes I need some help relaxing.

Stress causing other issues. Such as headaches, sickness, other body pains. So I would take a pain killer. I have to be careful that I'm not just popping pills cause of the mental pain. It is leaning on a physical substance to feel as if it will some how help my issues. It does relax me. For a moment. I've been in the situation where the stress is back and I just took pain killers 15 min ago, I can't take more! What now!

It's all just a mental battle. If I could learn to over come the mental and trust in a loving God to tend to all the issues, then I'd not fall into wanting a drink or a pill to fix the problem.

[realtmg]

I feel ya!
But you know........ I think God allows us to experience such issues to see what we will do. testing our faith you might say.
I have to say being grateful and humble is the key.
There are so many out there that are in such a worse shape than we are.
We all have our vises and "triggers" that make us want to get a temporary relief.
Thank you for sharing as we aren't alone. This helps me.
Thanks!

luv ya

Real

[Sylvia]

Hi Real my friend
I too still struggle. Especially when alone and start getting depressed.
I pray about it constantly. My Heavenly Father told me to pray "yield me not into temptation but deliver me from evil." (from the Lord's prayer)
It works. It makes me realize I cannot do it myself.
I am a sinner saved by grace. Satan is there trying to defeat us.
Two marriages at my church have recently broken up. Satan is attacking us every way he can. We must stay aware of this. We all have crosses we bare in this life. Whether drug and alcohol addiction. Sex addiction, pride, money spending addictions, the list goes on and on.
It also helps to tell another Christian about the temptation. This is a humbling experience. But if you pray and ask God to lead you to the right person He will. And have them keep you in prayer.
Today would have been my hubby's and my anniversary. But I talked to the Lord, not about what I am missing today. But about all the wonderful anniversaries I got to share with him in the past. What a wonderful christian man he was and how blessed I was that God lead us together.
I am trying to look at my blessings and not the trials themselves. Because in doing that it helps me not to allow the evil one to have a foot hold. But it is a constant time of being on alert. And asking God for help immediately and not wait, thinking the temptation will go away on its own. Because it won't. It will keep bugging you.
Luv you all
Sylvia
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