Check out how things are going for Christina and Casey ever since their stories aired…
Since the show, everything has been wonderful! I finally moved out of my parents house and into a condo with Jonas. I no longer drink on a daily basis or every weekend.
Control of my drinking is not an issue anymore. I control the drinking now it does not control me. After the show I was sober for 3 months because I drank at a friends birthday party. I was under control and had 1 drink and that was it. Now it goes back and fourth I will be sober 1 month then 2 months and that’s by choice. Every time I do drink it’s one day, one time, when I choose. I still go out to clubs and parties(come on I’m still young haha) but there is no temptation being around so much alcohol.
My family and I are closer then we’ve ever been and my parents can finally sleep at night. They visit us all the time, we take trips together now, and we’ve even gone to church with them. I feel so good every morning now and I feel healthy. I’m still waiting to start school just because I missed the registration date but I am enrolled now. I’ve never been happier and found that I personally didn’t need AA meetings I needed family. They were there the whole time but I was in my own world and didn’t care.
Now, I’m just loving life
Christina
So it’s Casey… after seeing the show I was completely humiliated and changed my ways as much as possible for me to do right now. I have slowed down on the drinking (i.e. no drinking beer while brushing teeth or liquid breakfasts) and I try to limit my drinking to only the weekends.
I no longer work at the coffee shop and am currently seeking employment. I have also cut contacts with all of the former roommates and bad influences in my life. I still live in Vegas but am planning on moving far away from Sin City as soon as I get my license back in May of 2009. Until then I am doing the best I can do to better my life with what I have been given.
-Casey
April 5th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
i’m 28 now, and have been sober for a bti now…nearly 5 years. Yes I got sober at 23. Casey, let me say from experience that moving doesnt help. But it just sounds like you hvaen’t gotten enough pain yet. I really love going to meetings and hearing old guys tell some crazy story, because im able to say “i didnt do that when i was drinking….yet”. Because as long as I stay sober I dont have to do many of the stupid, crazy things I’ve heard about others doing!
April 5th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
christina i am so happy that you stop drinking so much and put your life together. i know it must have been really hard for you to do. when i saw your story about your drinking it made me cry because the person i really care about drinks all the time and we are both 17 in high school. i just want to know what you did to get over drinking and stay sober? i have drank before but it was to look cool in front of my friends. i know so many kids that drink and they are not even 18. some not even 16. i want to help them stop but i just don’t know how. im very proud of you. hope you are well
April 5th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
To Kettleland
It’s hard when your younger because of pure pressure. My drinking was rooted from depression. I think thats great your trying to help but nobody could tell me otherwise when I was that age. Just be there for them and always let them know you care. I stopped because I’m 25 and I have accomplished nothing and I wish I could take back those years but I can’t
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Casey I have been sober for almost 5 years. I was watching you and I was hoping you were going to get it. I was glad that one of you got it and are living happily. I was 32 when I got sober, like the other person said, your can’t take those years back. You will finally reach your bottom or have a consequence and you will stop or die. We all do. I hope you make it before you die, this disease called Alcholism is deadly. I thought the show would offer help but they didn’t. I was very disappointed, that is why I watched.