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Old 01-07-2014, 11:20 AM
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MemphisBlues
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I think PAWS rears its ugly head months into recovery, not weeks. If your sobriety is double-digit days, I think you are dealing what most of us deal with: that huge, deep, dark area following acute detoxification.

Sleep for 12 hours. That's not big deal. That's just your body recovering after getting booze out of your system. Our body just doesn't know how to react without that steady, constant coating of alcohol all over the central nervous system. Our guts have to recover, too.

The crying and angst is just the brain trying to deal with reality without being soaked with booze.

It's just going to suck for a while.

If you are like me, I could read a myriad of horror stories about withdrawal and PAWS and then manifest those symptoms.

Just try to get your self in a place where you accept that you are just going to feel like crap for a while and do know that it does get better.
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