Good morning, fellow sobernauts, IWNDWYT 😁!

We may be anonymous strangers on the internet, but we have one thing in common. We may be a world apart, but we’re here together!

Welcome to the 24 hour pledge! I’m pledging myself to not drinking today, and invite you to do the same.

Maybe you’re new to c/stop drinking and have a hard time deciding what to do next. Maybe you’re like me and feel you need a daily commitment or maybe you’ve been sober for a long time and want to inspire others.

It doesn’t matter if you’re still hung over from a three day bender or been sober for years, if you just woke up or have already completed a sober day. For the next 24 hours, let’s not drink alcohol!

  • MrZee@lemm.eeEnglish
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    15 days ago

    I lost track of when I had quit drinking a year or two ago. I was pretty sure it was during the first quarter but couldn’t remember if I quit in 2021 or 2022. I’d tried searching through old messages and stuff but didn’t have any luck.

    I just figured out that bank statements would tell me. Looking back, my last liquor store purchase was late March 2021… so I just hit 4 years sober a week or two ago.

    I haven’t felt a desire to drink in a long time and it’s really really nice. I went through the worst 6 months of my life last year and worried at the start of it that I would find myself “needing” to drink. But somehow, I never even felt tempted. It kinda blows my mind. 1,465 days without alcohol. That’s a lot of days.

    There’s no way in hell I’m drinking today. No question.

  • DrCatface@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    15 days ago
    1. count once a day vibes. only one day at time. can’t do 3 days at a time. let me know if anyone’s managed to do more than one day at a time
    • MrZee@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      15 days ago

      44 days, I take it?

      The first few days and weeks were the hardest, of course, but around two months in it would also get a lot easier for me. That’s when it stopped becoming such a frequent thought and I’d even have days where drinking wouldn’t come to mind. Stay strong. Keep it up!

      • DrCatface@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        15 days ago

        aye, I’ve had a couple thousand day ones, no more of that. Ive been working the steps of AA flat chat for weeks, immense difference in my mental health, obsession of the mind and spiritual malady straightened out, it’s only early days but I feel almost cured

        • MrZee@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          15 days ago

          What’s “flat chat”? I don’t/haven’t ever done AA. I know a lot of bits and pieces - my mom kicked the habit through AA 25ish years ago.

          I had close to two years once in the past. And a year or so another time. Complacency and “forgetting” what it was like are the insidious things that led to me relapsing. “I can drink responsibly” was such an easy lie I told myself because things were feeling easy. Thankfully I’ve learned that lesson and plan to not forget it.

          • DrCatface@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            15 days ago

            fast as possible, yes we have to remember our last drink/drunk, it’s impossible for me to forget mine cause I crashed another car, lucky not to involve anyone else, court in a few days. yeah I had alcoholic amnesia, couldn’t remember how awful the withdrawals are or what being drunk actually feels like. it’s the drug I’ve abused the most and I don’t remember what it feels like. I remember how every other drug feels. but some things I’ve come to learn is that no it’s not a disease in the conventional sense, but it is progressive, it will kill me and it talks to me and tells me I’m not an alcoholic. cancer does not talk to you. AAs not for everyone but I literally could not stop myself from drinking, pure insanity not wanting to drink, you put me on a lie detector I’d say I’m never drinking again and it wouldn’t go off, but I’d be drunk that afternoon.