I am an alcaholic!

However I have been sober for 15 years. the first two years of my sobriety was quitting cold turkey and without AA. The past 13 years have been with the help of AA and I got to be honest with you. Its a hell of a lot easier with that "AA crap" the originator of this thread called it.

Anonymity is the corner stone of the program and for good reason. However I freely give up my anonymity. after all I didnt care what people thought of me when I was puking and staggering down the main street and crawling in the gutters of my home town.

Why would I care if they know I go to AA. I have had a couple of occasions where someone has said to me "If an asshole like you can quit, then so can I"

I drank to the point of losing it all, my wife and child, my family and friends, my money and my career and damn near my life. But the worst part of all was when I lost my self esteem.

The alcaholic elevator will take you down, but you can get off at any floor you want, you dont have to ride it all the way to the bottom.

The only requirment for AA, is "a willingness to stop drinking". Forget about tommorow "just quit for today".

I have been lucky in my sobriety, that with the love and support of friends and family, I have got back most of what I lost and it just gets better with time.

I wouldnt trade one hundred of my very best days drinking for even one of my worst days sober!

I read somewhere that "all alcaholics go to heaven, cause they have already been through hell, here on earth"

All the best. Glen