Question by Sweetness: For alcoholics in recovery, what made you want to stop?
I have a sister-in-law who can’t really have much else happen as far as consequence yet still drinks daily. I could use some hope from hearing about what made you want to quit. For alcohlics in recovery, what was the main thing that made you get help or want to quit? Congratulations for your accomplishments! Feel free to include your # of years sober. Thanks in advance.
Best answer:
Answer by Toniann Couture
I’m not an alcoholic. <3
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I have a suggestion that may help her start on her path. The drug topamax. As one person wrote. “Alcohol lost its enjoyment, strengthening his resolve to quit.” I’m on this medication for migraines and while not an alcohlic, I too like many have lost all taste for alcohol. It’s very hard to drink while on this medication.
I’m recovered. 9 years.
Alcoholics, just like anyone else, are motivated to make changes in their lives when the perceived pain of continuing the behavior exceeds the perceived pain of changing it.
For me, it took an incident in which my then-husband found me passed out in a puddle of urine. It was horrible and shameful and it tilted the balance in favor of quitting. Other alcoholics, hearing this, have said they passed out in their own pee every night, no big deal, they’d never have quit over something like that.
The point is that it’s the alcoholic’s perception that counts more than anything else.