Just know that there are people that love you. I'm an alcoholic. I have been since I lost my best friend in the Marine Corps. I finally asked for help a few weeks ago, and the support has been overwhelming. I know there's a few of you fellow vets out there who are prideful like me, and think we can conquer everything ourselves, but just simply asking for help is all you need to do. I had heard horror stories about the VA, but, everyone I've talked to so far has been incredibly helpful, and I'll be checking into the hospital tomorrow before I kill myself by drowning in alcohol. The help is out there, guys, you just have to ask for it. I'm ready for the fight ahead, and you need to be too. We need all hands on deck, and if you're not well, you need to get well. All the best - Felonious
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Some people go about getting sober differently, than some. I was an alcoholic, for twenty years, I drank every single day, beer, beer beer, like clock work. One day decided I was done, 22 year's ago, had my last beer, haven't even had an inkling, to endure again, for 22 years. Then came the drug use, 25 years, couldn't literally go to work, without pot in my pocket. Decided again I was done, haven't had pot in 25 years, just walked away. let's fast pace to 2018, had rusky voice went to doctor, found stage four tumor grew through my voice box, lost voice, have trek hole on throat, never smoked another cigarrette from that moment. My point is, how do so many people need sympathy and pampering to quit habits you all started on your own, seriously. It's easier to just be mature, and quit the things you find bad, on your own, and stop with helping to government fund programs that make us look weak minded.
Fuck off dude. You don't know what anyone has been through. There's always one of you "by the boot straps" douchebags on posts like this and it's fucking old. I get it, some of us can do it by ourselves, and some of us ask for help. It doesn't mean you need to come on here on your high horse pretending like you're better than everyone.
Weak minded people, such as yourself, give to the meaning, of weak minded people like you.
And I like how everyone else is weak minded when you're the one that got a hole in your throat because you couldn't stop with the cancer sticks. No wonder you're so angry. You didn't change your ways until you absolutely had to and you think that makes you better than the rest of us, lol.
What, the hole came in 2018, the quitting drinking came in 2002. Dude reading comprehensive not one of your stronger points, huh? Angry? Wrong again, I am the happest person in the world, living , grandkids, new big house, I mean my life other then the hole is great. . 59, life is not guaranteed forever, we make it best while we have it. I think your with-draws may be effecting your ability to socialize with normsal people/..Good luck to you, one day at a time,