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5 Reddit comments about Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget:

u/ResponsibleState · 21 pointsr/stopdrinking

Sarah Hepola wrote a great book about blacking out (and getting sober). I've blacked out so many times I've lost count. It's the worst feeling, waking up and not remembering, discovering terrible text messages I've sent, hearing my partner recount the awful things I said. You'd think it would only take one time of that happening to never drink again, but no. I'm back here today, in fact, trying to stop drinking, again, because I drank so much last night that at some point my brain checked out. So many holes in my memories. I don't want that. I want to wake up whole.

u/imkimduh · 6 pointsr/stopdrinking

All uphill from here, lady!! You got this!

When I first started to get sober, I read “ Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget ” by Sarah Hepola. Just from the little bit that you offered (being stranded and picked up by strangers, so out of it you couldn’t communicate your address correctly, angry) it resonates with me, as I was much the same. Im just over two years sober and that book hit me in so many places that I nearly cried the entire way through. It definitely helped me see sobriety is for the better. Good luck and remember, we’re here when you need us!!

u/upsidedownonacross · 2 pointsr/alcoholism

It is possible to do alone. I've been to (court mandated) AA and NA and I simply cannot stand it. One sob story or wild tale of drunken adventure after another, the same stories week after week...everyone with tears in their eyes, a good 40% of people in there saying they are sober when the reality is that they have just switched up to something else (weed or pills generally). All the God and Jesus bullshit. I hate everything about it, even the camaraderie/people pretending to care about you

I wanted to become sober and I have. books like these X X help me put things into perspective and realize that there is much more that I want to do in life than get home and get wasted and then feel shitty the entire next day.

I was a monster...I'd do any drug under the sun, I'd drink a fifth of vodka every night and I was able to stop with my own willpower eventually

u/GuiltFreeInterneting · 1 pointr/stopdrinking

Sarah Hepola’s book Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget was hugely helpful for me in the early weeks, as was this sub.

u/ohmygawshhh · 1 pointr/stopdrinking

https://www.amazon.com/Blackout-Remembering-Things-Drank-Forget/dp/1455554588

My ex boyfriend got me this book (Years before I quit lol it was a subtle hint)

Anyway if you read it or even skip to the last few 100 pages its fantastic and will make you feel better about the shakes...she pretty much hid in her closet for the first 3 weeks of sobriety, leaving only to go to work and eat what she needed to survive, cold sweats, shakes all the works. And finally she felt okay to leave the closet. So I'm sure you'll start to feel better soon! My thoughts are with you and I hope you're doing okay. Its a great book. But mostly the last half.