I have been reading a lot of posts lately. In fact, I spend more time on this site than is realistic. And I have noticed that a lot of you have these silly little rules for what counts towards progress and what does not. You all have to stop that! Just stop it! Stop beating yourselves up. You make me feel so guilty.
I have studied your posts and have developed 10 rules for measuring progress as we all work on managing our addiction. You don't have to follow these rules, but I am going to follow them - guilt free!!! I need all the postive encouragment I can get. Here goes:
1. Yes, hangover days do count toward AF days. In fact they count double. Even if you wake up still drunk - still counts.
2. Deciding to drink fake achohol is not a crutch that deserves punishment. It is a healthy choice and deserves to be viewed that way.
3. Choking down herbal supplements the size of hot dogs is a nobel thing to do if you need it. It is not a crutch. It is an aid to recovery and a very smart choice. p.s. don't take your medicine with champage.
4. Requiring medication that you are too chicken shit to go to the doctor to get, requiring long delivery days as you wait for your medication to arrive from a far away land. A land so far away that it requires several border crossings and likely delivery in the dark of nite is not a bad thing. It is an aid to recovery done in the privacy of your home. Very smart! Counts double!
5. Talking to perfect strangers all day long, telling them things you cannot even tell your own relatives and friends who love and adore you and make time for you each day is a perfectly rationale thing to do. It is a healthy way for you to recover in the privacy of your own world.
6. Setting new goals and then breaking them over and over again is a sign of tenacity and strength. It takes a lot of guts to keep getting up after falling down. The point here, folks, is that we keep getting up. And we all can take as much time as we want practicing this.
7. The road to recovery does not have a set duration. I have heard some of you can go 2 days and some can go 6. Some can go 30. Some are doing so well that they really should loan us some days to add to our AF charts.
8. It is ok to order your stuff over the internet. You don't have to have the guts to go to the drugstore and by it yourstuff. Shame is a feeling that goes along with this whole thing. If I was proud of this issue I would be at the bar right now. Just don't forget to thank your postman.
9. Drinking less is better than drinking more. Even if AF is not happening, you still get to count drinking less than you were before. It counts. Maybe not double, but it counts. Progress is progress!!!!!
10. Being addicted to this website is a better addiction than the one we are all dealing with.
11. (added based on responses to this post - thanks!) You do not have to count your AF days sequentially. If you get to 29 and then drink the next day, the following day that you are AF is 30, NOT ONE.
I have studied your posts and have developed 10 rules for measuring progress as we all work on managing our addiction. You don't have to follow these rules, but I am going to follow them - guilt free!!! I need all the postive encouragment I can get. Here goes:
1. Yes, hangover days do count toward AF days. In fact they count double. Even if you wake up still drunk - still counts.
2. Deciding to drink fake achohol is not a crutch that deserves punishment. It is a healthy choice and deserves to be viewed that way.
3. Choking down herbal supplements the size of hot dogs is a nobel thing to do if you need it. It is not a crutch. It is an aid to recovery and a very smart choice. p.s. don't take your medicine with champage.
4. Requiring medication that you are too chicken shit to go to the doctor to get, requiring long delivery days as you wait for your medication to arrive from a far away land. A land so far away that it requires several border crossings and likely delivery in the dark of nite is not a bad thing. It is an aid to recovery done in the privacy of your home. Very smart! Counts double!
5. Talking to perfect strangers all day long, telling them things you cannot even tell your own relatives and friends who love and adore you and make time for you each day is a perfectly rationale thing to do. It is a healthy way for you to recover in the privacy of your own world.
6. Setting new goals and then breaking them over and over again is a sign of tenacity and strength. It takes a lot of guts to keep getting up after falling down. The point here, folks, is that we keep getting up. And we all can take as much time as we want practicing this.
7. The road to recovery does not have a set duration. I have heard some of you can go 2 days and some can go 6. Some can go 30. Some are doing so well that they really should loan us some days to add to our AF charts.
8. It is ok to order your stuff over the internet. You don't have to have the guts to go to the drugstore and by it yourstuff. Shame is a feeling that goes along with this whole thing. If I was proud of this issue I would be at the bar right now. Just don't forget to thank your postman.
9. Drinking less is better than drinking more. Even if AF is not happening, you still get to count drinking less than you were before. It counts. Maybe not double, but it counts. Progress is progress!!!!!
10. Being addicted to this website is a better addiction than the one we are all dealing with.
11. (added based on responses to this post - thanks!) You do not have to count your AF days sequentially. If you get to 29 and then drink the next day, the following day that you are AF is 30, NOT ONE.
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