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Old 07-05-2013, 02:25 PM
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fantail, like most things it wasn't an on/off switch kind of thing
it's gradual and full of nuance
Even if I were to pick an example like - not caring that I'm out to dinner where other might have a drink or two - I don't know that I could put a time period on it for you.
I was able to handle that pretty much right away but it did still bother me...then it didn't...then every once it in a while I'd still get that nagging feeling of "how can they have a drink or maybe too and just not even think of drinking more?"
The important thing is that our struggles took a long time of abuse to get as bad as they got and although they don't just go away, thankfully they do go away faster than it took to get them.
Think of when you have a headache (not a killer hangover headache but a "regular" one)
at some point it's bad enough to take something for it
then typically you can't point to which minute where it went away...you just realize at some point "hey, my head feels better"
hope that helps, congrats on being 4 months and counting! you made it over the big 90 day hump
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