anyone else get triggered by reading posts?
Hi everyone,
Often when I read SR or another recovery forum, I start getting cravings to drink. I love coming here for the connection. Yet, the cravings bother me. (I read mainly threads about being happy and content being sober. I rarely read threads about relapse. I think if I just stay in the secular section, I don't get cravings as often- if at all.) I go to a face-to-face Women for Sobriety meeting and don't get triggered there.
Other people post that they come here when they are craving and that reading posts helps to lessen or end the cravings. I am the opposite. I come here with no conscious cravings and start cravings fairly strongly while reading. The cravings stop after a while- usually after I get busy doing something else.
I have almost 6 months sober and was sober for 16 years before a brief relapse last summer.
Does anyone else get an increase in cravings when reading online forums?
Thoughts, suggestions, etc?