Latest / Sober Talk SA / Sober Talk SA - Craig
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- 0:00On my name's crack. I will not go on it, and he's a
- 0:04bit of my story. I was born at a very young age,
- 0:09of course. And I was born to quite a, quite
- 0:13a normal everyday family, p, brothers and sisters, or two
- 0:17brothers. And a sister mum didn't work and
- 0:21they should start acting mum. Lot, of course, like every
- 0:23trishul. In fact, worked quite a few
- 0:25chips. I'll find out later in life.
- 0:29My mom. Was caught concerned about me,
- 0:31getting on because her father was only, can I be today for,
- 0:36for quite a long time. She used to bring that up.
- 0:40Only when I had my Benders and I was a bit of a naughty kid and
- 0:46then the stolen anything, but I, he's still waiting for that
- 0:49class clown and sort of the funny boy.
- 0:53I'll spice and sort of didn't really feel like I fit in with
- 0:57their own. Even though I said it wasn't
- 0:59yeah. Particularly at usual.
- 1:02But yeah. Just like and I just don't I
- 1:05always feel a bit different. Been overly more emotional than
- 1:10other kids as far as luck laughing.
- 1:12And, you know, that sort of sort of thing.
- 1:16And what girls always said, I talk a lot and that's funny hat
- 1:19with you. Go to do a talk and he said, I
- 1:22can't talk for 20 minutes, my parents would laugh cry, could
- 1:25talk the lingo up a chair. And, you know, I was still
- 1:29asleep so I could have done well at school but I was still
- 1:32interested in being a clamp. I was a silly off since they
- 1:37never could have done really well but you know, I went
- 1:40through a supposed to know about, you know, we started
- 1:43drinking you. So probably 12 13 at when of
- 1:48make from school and his parents were extremely liberal about
- 1:52menís. Let him smoke.
- 1:53I thought this is cool and even let us drink but every time we
- 1:57prank, Why I got really, really written off.
- 2:01And so yeah, I just couldn't couldn't have what and the other
- 2:05ones like a complete waste us wise.
- 2:08I'll put our sit down, have a beer that was a really, you
- 2:10know, so I was about 15 years old.
- 2:13I had a was involved in a fatal car accident where I was meant
- 2:18to be sitting in sickness aren't the you are my mate, wasn't it?
- 2:24Rolled over it, the country of the down he died at Up.
- 2:27And cause the with me right away.
- 2:29So don't even know they stole the car.
- 2:32And I wasn't having any kind of that, but it was a same thing
- 2:36that I told us with me when he thought.
- 2:38So I saw things like that, I think it was a catalyst for me,
- 2:44being able to get drunk and people would say, oh, you know,
- 2:47I just had a hard time, it's lost, its mate and all that sort
- 2:52of thing, I could, I suppose get away with it, you know.
- 2:57Was a and then I got my license the sick and I couldn't I was it
- 3:01about a wider barking. Yes.
- 3:05Ran into a few different things. You star scare away, see stuff,
- 3:11you know and drink and drive all the time.
- 3:15When I was young I probably tried nails when I got older and
- 3:19my what about Scott faster I did.
- 3:20But I was always, I think drink. It was a messing part of my Why?
- 3:26Teens last face? I was always, yeah, I could
- 3:30practice often as I could but I don't know, I might still as
- 3:34well. So I didn't really stand out and
- 3:38I remember what went before it had to do this.
- 3:41I was thinking, I had a girlfriend once.
- 3:43I'll pick, I was in town, I depart, and picked up the skill
- 3:46and get him on Mike. She looked like I'm not bikes us
- 3:50kiss. You might, and he would had a
- 3:53few and it's silly to the feet. So I remember his girlfriend st.
- 3:57Clair she, she says you're a nice boy, but she said, I feel
- 4:00to keep you get off the if she's eating it.
- 4:03Really drunk a lot. Yeah, pop off, cool.
- 4:06That's what cool. Like, some kind of likes to
- 4:08their cake East and actually end up having a son when I was only
- 4:1619 years old and that was more. Kumal.
- 4:20I work for my bed and I had a I mean having a lot of
- 4:24responsibility with my dad and the term, the cheolmin heart
- 4:29started boxing and it's actually all that stuff there.
- 4:32That kept me. I think, basically it's going to
- 4:37work and train and everything site.
- 4:40It get the drink here by, but when I was 23, I lost part of
- 4:43our sites. I ha please watch your like
- 4:48Choice. Hi, Wait for there wasn't much
- 4:50call for Legally Blonde spray painters, and it and it is I
- 4:56actually in a bit of a Rachmaninoff and not the bottom
- 4:59that I I needed to freak reason that came 20 years later.
- 5:04So from though there was a lot of drinking and fighting and as
- 5:11I'm not blind blind but I've lost part of my central vision.
- 5:13So it was hard to work. So I had an excuse to stay home
- 5:17and I think for 12 or 18, So I just try every day because it
- 5:22was a guy that finished work at 2:00 at him and go and when he
- 5:26the piece together. So yeah, I mean totally like
- 5:30another relationship, she left because I was just a bit of a
- 5:34loser and, you know. Yeah.
- 5:38I all along the side of my house.
- 5:41Well, that didn't work and we get proper together sats are up.
- 5:44We can have a beer. If you he don't ever being you
- 5:48know, you Not fair, not a fan and all that sort of stuff, but
- 5:51yeah, ice to get written off a lot.
- 5:53So Along Came many different jobs because I got into sales
- 6:00and I have a lot of potential. I am a beast of a lot of dogs
- 6:04for a while and then I wouldn't have them anymore, because I'll
- 6:08get drunk and not, turn up to work, not shut up Monday.
- 6:13But, you know, it's still a lot of Monday's I suppose, but just
- 6:16wasn't. It was an Old Reliable cat more
- 6:19Offer that not a lot of people said to me, when I was working,
- 6:23you having been drinking about nine outs will, you know like
- 6:28because when you don't and I think I had an out whole three
- 6:30day. Four Ava, and I could, you know,
- 6:42three, four times. So funny.
- 6:47I think I'll people think I am anyway and I can communicate.
- 6:52I'm very good at picking up and are chatting up women and you
- 6:56know, like hating up and I'll give you eight.
- 6:59I Can Begin. Be personable after all.
- 7:02All the rest of the end but then after a while, they just get
- 7:05sick of you. If you're eating a lot, I like
- 7:08working and work with Mobsters according to Porter, I'm gonna
- 7:11watch a way six days a week. So I'd make my underweight leave
- 7:15like job to afford my alcohol and it on another break.
- 7:21Happened around 1999 on the six-year relationship because he
- 7:26just went down the toilet. Just yeah, just there.
- 7:31Just gets to you after a while. It's embarrassing.
- 7:34Yeah, you know, them in places and my son were fairly close
- 7:38but, you know, I run. But he doesn't.
- 7:41I'll fast forward but he doesn't talk to me anymore.
- 7:45And they don't believe that on. Yeah, I stopped drinking because
- 7:47we got on really well, but quite often if it's come over on a
- 7:51Sunday or just crochet a lounge for two hours, I'd be a good dad
- 7:55but there were many times where I'll just be the bearer seek
- 8:00peace guy. Yes.
- 8:03I'm what? Winehouse and not Beauty
- 8:07thousand. I've been here ever since but
- 8:10yeah, I like I said, I've been through many relationships and
- 8:14job herbs, and the final straw was about ten years ago when I
- 8:22had an incident where they, my son at stop.
- 8:25Seeing me up at three is two years before that because we
- 8:30came over one. One day with this massive
- 8:32argument in a fight and I lost it and it benefits the second or
- 8:38third time. I'll probably said, I think that
- 8:40I've done, then it happened from being very close to maxing was
- 8:44only thing he said, and so it's got Lisa, great waiver or
- 8:50motives friends. A lot of things.
- 8:52And I think enough of the Tough by my parents come here.
- 8:58Remember once I've got I've got a video of it, added of had
- 9:03pecans that 200 of them around like cancer.
- 9:07And on the table at cigarette butts fired.
- 9:10And I remember either paid in a cage on top of the cupboard and
- 9:16it kept getting outside. I'll put him back in, keep
- 9:19getting it. And I do.
- 9:21Did realize the top of that cake, was I put and I'll say,
- 9:24please don't need it at any time.
- 9:26Positive 8 there for about three days like adults are.
- 9:30But moved out and not completely just internal apparently got my
- 9:35shit together and that was never going to happen while I was
- 9:38faking. But yeah, I just got to get
- 9:44putting us back in. I just remember my parents came
- 9:47over to visit. Mom said, you know, you're an
- 9:49alcoholic has now Dot United sitting neighbors 300, PS the
- 9:54right approach, back in the video that I want to pay 150
- 9:57years five or six cats have beaten.
- 9:59It was a three-day session but it went from the locket at the
- 10:04worst point. I was probably drinking a little
- 10:08bit of an Italian people, sorry. And even now I thought I had
- 10:11prank that much, but I went to the auto shop a year after I
- 10:15stopped drinking and their whole at the auto shop actually.
- 10:19So they were really into that because I was like place of
- 10:21supply and pulls it to me as I will do this.
- 10:26My thoughts that he goes, well, this is last October and this is
- 10:30this October and the route from the boom, replaceable things
- 10:35that day out what's happening. And so, will cry doesn't visit
- 10:39anymore. I said yes.
- 10:40Funny other, you guys know when you're spending a bit, Three
- 10:44other bucks a week on boo-boo. The Photoshop silly though.
- 10:48This is the decline in sales and lights shit.
- 10:52Well Harriet a very free running is good on ya.
- 10:55Babe. I was funny because Iranians to
- 10:57go on there and I kept using was just friendly to.
- 10:59I'm just slow. So you don't want to bite the
- 11:01hand that feeds. You little prawns, weren't
- 11:04messing part of my story as well, but not as much as
- 11:06drinking a, you know, getting on the weekends or virtually
- 11:11Chinese to see the speak. What if i k is, I can sort of
- 11:16say no to that quite easily, not do it for many years.
- 11:22So I thought was that the Catalyst to everything going to
- 11:25sexually funny since I've gave I'm freaking out.
- 11:28Nothing freely, bother me anymore.
- 11:30So suppose fast forward to 2014 after a massive bender.
- 11:36And I had a huge big argument life partner the time, and I
- 11:41wasn't happy with how How things were with the family there with
- 11:47her family over the fact, she really did try it but she tried
- 11:50to pin it tough love in any way. But she wasn't here on, I got
- 11:54locked up for, you know, had many dots in the pound as we
- 11:59quite often have a little bit itself but I'll be able that for
- 12:02you know, kissing in public and did that want, why sighing,
- 12:07every iconic scene had that kissing in public?
- 12:10And then you fight, the police are all goes well from there.
- 12:13I don't know. So yeah, I was locked up and I
- 12:17got out and I actually ran with that because I'm, I'm born on
- 12:21his birthday while felt great parents.
- 12:24I think the what, then I'll sit and I'm gonna stop drinking and
- 12:28he goes your promise as an herbal scent and 17, like you
- 12:34think you've got a problem crank?
- 12:36She's like well mom said, yes, sir, because I go back bringing
- 12:43about four years ago before that and said, I'm going to try and
- 12:46she didn't believe me but This is the first time I actually fit
- 12:50give up because I didn't think it was me without drinking
- 12:54because I was in the car. Train, everyone drank Channel.
- 12:58Yeah. It's the boxer on motorbikes and
- 13:00all the guy things. So, you know, it's, you know,
- 13:05you'd have to be not kind of made if you didn't break up,
- 13:08I've been a bit of up like you'd like, and pretty much when I
- 13:14decided to stop, I will bring up a place of web there and They
- 13:21was here. They ought to write things down
- 13:24and you know, I didn't get to Tolkien it was there some sort
- 13:27of church-based thing and that's a massive part of my sobriety.
- 13:31She's it on the screaming atheist.
- 13:33I have had bad experiences with our the patch that by a priest
- 13:39or anything, but it's about that experience with the people in
- 13:43churches, not being what they say they are Being not nice,
- 13:48people would go to church and that's why they're great.
- 13:51So I thought I've got some really close, check your friends
- 13:54with our rights but we must offense.
- 13:56But I actually got on the phone to a i is actually was funny.
- 14:02I had a partner years ago and we used to drink our own receives
- 14:07to beam out for work and castles place of work that would stop
- 14:10every night. The way home.
- 14:12She did a bunch of Southern Comfort and not get up a little
- 14:16bit even And who mom has been part of the a fellowship 50-odd
- 14:21years and she's a set of your a colic.
- 14:25Hell I can stop, anytime I might she is, I've never seen you but
- 14:29they're drinking it. I said he will because I'm
- 14:31always working when I'm not working.
- 14:34I would prank and I like drinking and I was quite funny
- 14:37because he said, but you drink alcohol equally as his ally
- 14:42thing, you pull your drinks. And if have half a glass of
- 14:45bourbon on half of muscle kite, That's how I like it and it's
- 14:50just you just jump in. If she was his holy the left
- 14:53side, actually Reich II and the going out to the phone.
- 14:58So, skis off a little tricky thing.
- 15:00Goodness, and not answer. I got it out to the fine in the
- 15:05office. It was actually funny.
- 15:07It's glad all the answers really shouldn't be off at the time.
- 15:11He, he said, I said, do you know, I don't drive and he said,
- 15:17that's okay. So you should give to a meeting
- 15:19and I said I don't have any say I'm eating stuff, so that's what
- 15:23you do. So, so when you lie guys,
- 15:26welcome to one on one side note. Once again, I don't promise and
- 15:29I'll pick you up, what as black. So I think one of the guys know
- 15:35I still have to pick me up. Well hey, he's nice enough to
- 15:39operation in us enough to say. And so, He came along that
- 15:43picked me up and he said look just Lisa, you don't have to say
- 15:46anything, you know. But listen for the similarities
- 15:49a lot of differences because I said none of em uh, Starfire and
- 15:53he said to another planet, but he knows it's not a religious
- 15:56program. Also, it's gone.
- 15:59You can just just, just don't worry about it.
- 16:01And I'll see if I can sing it like god-killer because I wanted
- 16:04to, I didn't want to drink at that time, but I did my personal
- 16:08life. As I said, I've been 20 Five
- 16:12years of hot hot drink and I'll go to this meeting and everyone
- 16:19that shade around the table, I could hear something similar.
- 16:22And every single one of their this year, is whether it be
- 16:26they've lost money because I can, I mean with the Mike Vinny
- 16:28four thousand dollars with a credit card and lost my house,
- 16:31but I think four thousand dollars with the credit card
- 16:34debt and It was people have lost everything can, you know, I had
- 16:40lots of Partners and my partner wasn't there at Toms shoe.
- 16:43She met me at the painting and she has quality.
- 16:46You notice people there was a guy there and there was just is
- 16:51a few people there that now, that I've gone.
- 16:53But I really, really didn't want huh?
- 16:56And I don't know if I should say names, but yeah, there were no,
- 17:00I'm lovely. People are finding that they
- 17:02will. That you took me there.
- 17:04Just standing Oh yeah, I suck. So I will funny as well.
- 17:09So I thought Lena funny Guys, these guys are okay and she has
- 17:12little bit and it seemed like a staple and why not?
- 17:15I took two weeks off of work. So I'd actually a guy said
- 17:18sweet. He can do 90 meetings in 90.
- 17:21That is little it and you don't have to, I know, but I really
- 17:26wanted to give up so I thought was I'm not at work.
- 17:29I'm at home on the model shops for minutes up the road.
- 17:34So it to die Town. Meetings went to meetings in the
- 17:37night and even when I couldn't get there, I could bring up some
- 17:40one other words of a son that I rang up innocent.
- 17:44He said I guess what? He's got a stupid couple up
- 17:47buddy, at least guys got come it?
- 17:49And it was like April, you know, I reached out people helped.
- 17:53I've been driving it didn't matter.
- 17:56So it was just yeah. Like I said, there was many,
- 17:59people are part of the time. She not coming back, is she
- 18:04Often we going to meet me. So so I think she initially
- 18:06Renegade she said, you never actually she said you're all
- 18:10calm but it was months and months and months and I was just
- 18:15going on lots of beatings, but I enjoyed it and I did a really,
- 18:20you know, I but after there was a time I gave up in the st.
- 18:25Patrick's Day in there was a time when the 23rd of October
- 18:28they're here, I was pissed off where to being an argument she
- 18:32pissed off. And I went up and I was it, I
- 18:35shouldn't have thought. I just went up to play pokies,
- 18:38but I went to the bar and get up a bit.
- 18:41I had half of half a thing and drinking for the Family Guy saw
- 18:46through my stuff. Our economy, you guys are
- 18:50without all that quality and I shouldn't have, you know, but I
- 18:56actually other way home are. I rang up.
- 18:59Will someone from the fellowship?
- 19:01And he actually sent to me, it's about here, already decided to
- 19:05take that drink. What you decided to walk up the
- 19:07pup. I still have a drink.
- 19:09So Ron. Do you guys meet real nothing?
- 19:11Get back and Irish. Went back to meetings.
- 19:15Are never stop dying. But the problem was I wasn't
- 19:18wasting, it wasn't doing the program's.
- 19:20I wasn't calling people when I had issues.
- 19:23So then since fact I would say it's big, nothing fat.
- 19:26It's still, I'm still able to sponsor a little, a say, well,
- 19:31if he could be that, that's an office program.
- 19:33You've got to be honest to yourself.
- 19:35He had a coach and want to be honest.
- 19:39It's so I start my separate that from that time, but from there,
- 19:44I are basically, I suppose fast whole life, you about eight
- 19:49months later, I started talking over the keys to a finish open
- 19:55was going to be Three for six months and that indeed the two
- 20:00years. But to be honest, I actually
- 20:03liked. I had to go to the original
- 20:06style else and I would go out the front a night.
- 20:08So that that waiting and they call you out and I got you
- 20:12speaking, the new people and give me phone numbers.
- 20:14And after that about seven years ago, I gave up another job I
- 20:18finish for the relationship but still on very good terms with
- 20:22her and it's about this with. And I don't give this a Boss to
- 20:27everyone, but starting at a job that new relationship where
- 20:31people can look at. It was an alcoholic is my my
- 20:35personal thing, but job they're off.
- 20:37Got I'm actually going to really good position there and the
- 20:40people I work for it was funny after one year with four
- 20:43functional Jenna was to do what you want to drink.
- 20:46I will show him at the bar, I guess I can let go of helped our
- 20:49business to know. We love you.
- 20:51That's if you guys want a beer, that's another one of me.
- 20:53It's one of wine us. And I want one either, guess
- 20:56what? If the you want so don't drink
- 20:58and he goes like your sauce and a good one after all, he is your
- 21:03from the Cartwright. So why not just that drink?
- 21:05Oh, and he said, he was walking his clock I've had for he's he's
- 21:09he did, you know? It doesn't drink.
- 21:11Cheers? Yeah, it's coming.
- 21:13She has she is what do you use? It woke entitlement you are the
- 21:18they wouldn't be without mean old and be without them but you
- 21:21know since then it's actually a little time people respect. we
- 21:26entrust here, you know, I've got a good outlet and I do, you
- 21:30know, I tried I tuned for the 12-step to know what a life
- 21:33that's a stage of up to now that skeleton, nine years and it's
- 21:37not the time that's been offered up that matters, but it's the
- 21:41security of my life is I noticed after about two years, I was
- 21:46walking the dive of given up on was walking that dog and I will
- 21:51listen. All you going to be happy with
- 21:54it yourself and ended up in the drink to be happy but and I
- 21:57think those people would just let me go.
- 21:59Does that always has but I was watching the dog that I could,
- 22:02he, you know, I just actually something.
- 22:04Can I usually, where I felt I remember very clearly.
- 22:07I felt really good and very, very happy.
- 22:11Not pissed off that I had given up alcohol and yeah, I think it
- 22:15was, you know, it was, happy cleaned up my house, cleaned up
- 22:20a life of the Serbian. Exercising and walking that dog
- 22:23doing meetings under felt just together instead of arguing and
- 22:28it having a head that was Final Table.
- 22:32But yeah, I've I didn't go to Leading for a while because it
- 22:35was guy that, you know, I felt was not doing the right thing
- 22:41being in the film worship from time at we had an argument and I
- 22:45said, well, they're going with it, you know, you looking after
- 22:48it his drinking and he has, that's like business and I just
- 22:51got let that get in the way of things.
- 22:54So I didn't go to meetings for a while for a previous year and in
- 22:59it. Oh, that was very close to me.
- 23:01That was there. Very first came in a guy
- 23:03actually said rang me up at work one day and see you live such
- 23:07and such. So do you guys always passed the
- 23:09word new Rodney's contact the coal, a body L of all the people
- 23:13we know sir, Australia, I was but I think the coal I thought
- 23:18shit. So I rang up.
- 23:19Someone else's all worked out of play.
- 23:22Hello, you know that he was actually passed away after
- 23:25another dear old friend of mine. I'll Scottish by it was.
- 23:29Yeah, but see was everyone loves it?
- 23:31With over half a lopsided, so don't be a pain Fest you let.
- 23:35He's only a little bit of tough love, but he was also, obviously
- 23:40a very caring man, as well. I found out that he'd passed
- 23:43away and wanted pissed because my eye families and also.
- 23:49So I'm going back to meetings again and there's people, you
- 23:53know, that can say why, you know, what can you have gained
- 23:57from not drinking and Speeding ahead out of the turmoil.
- 24:03Me off doing real work, very hard but I've got a lot of years
- 24:08to make up and off, you know, I'll feel quite a few toys.
- 24:12Now, things are still lots to say about perfect.
- 24:14I've got a relationship with someone up being overseas, if
- 24:18you thoughts and it's coming here.
- 24:21The end of the year so I can actually handle everything, a
- 24:24relationship, we are back after that through the pain of being
- 24:28all the time I can you talk to people.
- 24:30Now a very Very grateful recovered economic or
- 24:34recovering. As I say they recovered.
- 24:37Very interesting. Leah friend of mine.
- 24:39Said today, I see all of the applications.
- 24:42Number 5 coach. So we do see those, I said about
- 24:47business. She said the funny guy from IA
- 24:50and you you're going to be thinking she is.
- 24:51What's thought today? She is.
- 24:53He goes on, at coholic to me what she uses.
- 24:56Very good, you know, it's good that you've recovered and I
- 24:58said, might agree with this far away from trenches.
- 25:01You don't want to drink. I said oh I plan to she's of all
- 25:06hate fake full-time. He wouldn't drink.
- 25:10I'm actually disgusting meeting this morning.
- 25:13There was a guy that used to set up the back of a meeting.
- 25:16At he was east of open up the doors and get the food out.
- 25:21I said of albany's shit said that out I guess.
- 25:24I hopefully called off sharing and things every week and he do
- 25:29one other meeting as well. And he hadn't had a drink for
- 25:31about 18 months. And he's a size arrows, it gives
- 25:35me. And I don't want to share,
- 25:36because I'm really cool because all the fine, I'm good.
- 25:39And two weeks after that went out and bought two bottles of
- 25:44scotch, drinking with one hand, they found in back slowly.
- 25:49Yes anyway you're not ever away from it.
- 25:54What's also want to sitting opposite each other table and he
- 25:56put up a salt pepper shaker. I went to Bourbon it.
- 25:59See that far away from a trip. So it is cunning baffling and
- 26:04powerful and it's only since of yes started that I found this
- 26:08Aaron Hall meetings. Now, it's to remind myself for
- 26:11what I can't be and this shit for when I can get back into, if
- 26:16I don't keep white and I sobriety real because it's given
- 26:20me a lot, but it'll get back and if there's anyone that's
- 26:24listening, that's thinking. Well, you know why, life might
- 26:27be fun if I could go out drinking while of even though
- 26:31that crime? Few cars, a type 2 shows people
- 26:35guy all the guys about five of my friends at the workshops are
- 26:38guiding. Hey, I've got to get something
- 26:41not only for crack and I accept, you know, I don't like sour.
- 26:46What what? How can you not bring us on my,
- 26:48what are we fighting? We get on great.
- 26:51I said Mike would be finding up aren't you eating?
- 26:53You would suck because I find some reason I be angry and they
- 26:57go Oh look The you don't drink. That's about it so much fun
- 26:59laughs. Oh Plus you know, I don't want
- 27:03to give it ten year anniversary up or anything I just you know
- 27:06one day at a time this I actually still get up every
- 27:08morning. I look at myself and there we
- 27:11write every single day like share this lunch but also you're
- 27:14not drinking today. Is this what you've got?
- 27:18And I'm just happy, I'm very content and even though the
- 27:24fellowship they arrived they wanted very even.
- 27:27I've worked out that. I don't know Paul.
- 27:29I don't know, lovely. But I've got some really good
- 27:34friends off at always cold.