alcohol
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The urge to stop drinking had been implanted before. But as it is with bad habits or addictions, you promise yourself to stop drinking tomorrow, or dink less, or drink only on odd days, or whatever comes to your mind. What came across my mind recently was the question what caused what in the end. Read more
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Well. I would like to dive into something that has been on my mind ever since cutting back: Is the “happiness” that alcohol deals you, really happiness? And if not, what is, then? Well, cutting back or stopping to drink alcohol seems to be a double edged sword at first glance. At second glance, however, Read more
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At first, I didn’t even want to become completely sober. I just wanted to drink commonsensical, meaning I wanted to drink like anybody else. Thing is, I found out that on occasions of commonsensical drinking, it was an illusion all along. I drank way too much on these occasions, so all set boundaries ended up Read more
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After nearly choking off my life motivation and sinking headlong into a deep depression, I finally made it to get rid of smoking cigarettes and abolishing dope, I mustered the strength to get my life as straight as possible: I declined a possible apprenticeship as a programmer and inscribed as a student again. I moved. Read more
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After I finished my Abitur (Giving you the permission to study at a university) I did my substitute service instead of military service (which, no doubt, included as much drinking as having been a soldier would have). This is a fuzzy era, I only know that I hated this time and took every opportunity to Read more
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When I was about 16, there was a pub in the city I lived in, where you could get drinks so cheap even a teenager with his pocket money could get hammered that one day in the week without getting broke. The pub was called Eulenspiegel and you could get either half a liter of Read more
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I think it makes sense to work on three levels here: Firstly, there will be postings about my “drinking career” and secondly my “sobriety career” and then postings about aspects, situations, methods and thoughts that help me to get on in my sobriety career and to share worries, happy thoughts, daily snippets and stuff. Let’s Read more
The Clear Horizon 