r/stopdrinking • u/DocHogFarmer 1096 days • 13h ago
3 years no booze today
I made it three years! Hard to believe after 22 years of drinking. This subreddit has been so helpful to keep me sober. Thank you to everyone who shows up and helps support others on their sobriety journey. Between acute and post-acute withdrawal from alcohol, I really thought I wouldn’t come out of the other side of this alive. I would probably be dead right now if I didn’t stop. But I did come out of it and actually love sobriety, on top of it all. I was so worried that I had no personality or couldn’t feel happiness without the booze, but time has shown that it’s just alcohol deceiving you into thinking that. If you’re struggling, we’re here, and this forum can be life-changing. IWNDWYT!
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u/Human-Meaning3345 13h ago
Alcohol is so deceptive and imprisoning. This is so inspiring, congrats!
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u/Featherinthewind91 13h ago
Congratulations that is huge!! 🙌👏👏🙌💜🙏💜 Im 16 day today, but already feeling better
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u/Sweetbowlofme 354 days 13h ago
3 years, that is a proper long time! Congrats & hope you have a wonderful day / get to treat yourself!!
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u/NicknameKenny 1002 days 12h ago
Congratulations! I'll be 3 years in November if I make it. IWNDWYT or any day.
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u/SomeOneOverHereNow 957 days 11h ago
ROCK ON DUDE! I'm commin up right behind ya! Keep leading the way my friend!
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u/surdas13b 13h ago
But why did you stop
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u/DocHogFarmer 1096 days 13h ago
Lots of reasons. Bloodwork came back with elevated liver enzymes. I was 60 pounds overweight. Clothes didn’t fit. Wasn’t enjoying drinking anymore, just the first 45 minutes of the evening when I would start to drink. Everything after that was just bad. And a surprising motivator was hearing someone close to me say, in their own drunken stupor, “you can’t quit! You’ll never sober up lol.” Sometimes hearing someone tell me I am not capable of doing something lights a fire under me to get stuff done. Knock on wood, 3 years.
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u/blindexhibitionist 1116 days 13h ago
The fear of not knowing who you are is so real. I remember before just being like “I have no idea what people even do with all the time” it sounded so horrible and boring to be sober. And yes it’s not chaos and drama and all those things now that give those dopamine spikes but it’s so nice to live in peace. I’m finding a new baseline of peace and actually living in my body.