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Jupiter
04-05-2009, 06:05 PM
I'll be 36, and I'm an alcoholic. I used to be much worse, with a really intense/high-responsibility job that I gave up. I went into rehab, did
well for a few months, and then relapsed, though not as bad. I also became a big coke user and I think that really messed me up more than anything else.

I've started a new job in Boston now after having been overseas for the past year (starting a business - couldn't have picked a better time). I thought I could keep it under control but I really can't. For me, it's either no drinking or binging. On the train back to New York the other day I must have had about 10-20 of those mini-shots they give out.

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to be 36, and still not get myself together. Sometimes I really wonder if I'll ever get my act straightened out.

Good luck to all my compatriots in our journey -- I wonder how we got this disease but we have to deal with it.


Jupiter

Camel
04-05-2009, 06:18 PM
Hi Jupiter,

I just got here myself, welcome. Your in the right place. Have you gotten to a face to face meeting yet? We can only get our life together one day at a time.

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Camel

zoomie
04-05-2009, 09:49 PM
I was 40 when I got my act together. It's never too late to stop the maddness!

yukonm
04-05-2009, 10:01 PM
Hi Jupiter,
I am 55 years old and have been clean and sober for a little over 19 months. I drank and used for over 40 years starting at the age of 10 with cough syrup. Just be grateful that you are here today and remember that you are never too young to die and never too old to learn to how to live.
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