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Addiction & Recovery

wildeyed

(11,243 posts) Thu Dec 8, 2011, 08:38 AM Dec 2011

If you have been sober for awhile, list the things they have now [View all]

that you are grateful that they didn't have when you were drinking/using.

I will start:

Mobile phones/email/internet chat boards. It was bad enough to make blacked out drunk calls on the landline. I used to redial after a bad night to try to figure out who I called. But drunk texting and emails? Whoa, I would have been a total mess.

Four Loco.

Still having the alcoholic mind, I am a bit sad I missed ecstasy.

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If you have been sober for awhile, list the things they have now [View all] wildeyed Dec 2011 OP

LOL NMDemDist2 Dec 2011 #1

I have a much clearer mind.. Stuart G Dec 2011 #2

Facebook. Iggo Dec 2011 #3

Better Dreams and better functioning tfsoccer Dec 2011 #4

Facebook get the red out Dec 2011 #5

OMG Facebook tavalon Jun 2012 #9

Interesting question rodsyrinx Dec 2011 #6

funny you should mention the DWI stuff oldhippydude Dec 2011 #7

I'm sad you missed ecstasy too tavalon Jun 2012 #8

Short-timer here. Its kind of early in my sobriety to call it. Vanje Jun 2012 #10