Triple Digits

Giving up a substance like alcohol is a funny thing. The longer you go without it, the less you remember how it feels. The negative consequences that make you want to quit in the first place are fresh on your memory, however. It’s hard to imagine that I’m here at 100, and before that it was less than a month, and so on. This year I’ve drank maybe 5 times, and I am currently at over 100 days clean.

Tell the AA folks this kind of story and they’ll snub you. AA is the worst cult since David Koresh! Attend the meetings at all cost, call maybe 7 people a day, etc... That kind of stuff you would think makes quitting harder. Their success rate is worse than the success rate for treating pancreatic cancer! That’s right — if alcohol was really a “disease” as they claim it is, more than 95% of their patients would be dead. Good thing it’s just a bad habit.

Their pitch is, all you need is a desire to stop drinking. But I disagree, that’s not close to enough. What you really need is to dislike drinking. You’ll know when that time comes.

Stay mentally healthy,
​Jx