Back on Day Two
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Alberta
Posts: 51
Back on Day Two
Oh joy.
Feel like a train wreck.
Jumped off the water wagon, didn't have the heart to come back on SR while almost perpetually drunk. Or the diligence...
...or the sense.
Day 2 of Sobriety... White knuckled it through the headaches, minor tremors and nausea yesterday. Wanted a drink like nothing else.
Woke up this morning proud of actually stringing together 24 hours without a drink. Celebrate with me y'all! Back on the long, hard, but ultimately more worth it than anything road to recovery.
On the alcoholism scale I'm probably around a five. In the big book My story would fall into part 2 of the stories section: definitely an alcoholic, but I haven't been at it for enough years for the withdrawals to be devastating.
Does anyone have any advice for a dry drunk on day two? I just feel tired, depressed, and a little sick. Don't want to do jack all but go to the liquor store.
Feel like a train wreck.
Jumped off the water wagon, didn't have the heart to come back on SR while almost perpetually drunk. Or the diligence...
...or the sense.
Day 2 of Sobriety... White knuckled it through the headaches, minor tremors and nausea yesterday. Wanted a drink like nothing else.
Woke up this morning proud of actually stringing together 24 hours without a drink. Celebrate with me y'all! Back on the long, hard, but ultimately more worth it than anything road to recovery.
On the alcoholism scale I'm probably around a five. In the big book My story would fall into part 2 of the stories section: definitely an alcoholic, but I haven't been at it for enough years for the withdrawals to be devastating.
Does anyone have any advice for a dry drunk on day two? I just feel tired, depressed, and a little sick. Don't want to do jack all but go to the liquor store.
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: C.C. Ma.
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Hi.
The thing that has stuck by me in many years of recovery is the slogan that says ”REMEMBER WHEN.” That goes into a favorite that says If we don’t have the first drink we won’t have to try to get sober AGAIN.
Old fashioned but a fact.
BE WELL
The thing that has stuck by me in many years of recovery is the slogan that says ”REMEMBER WHEN.” That goes into a favorite that says If we don’t have the first drink we won’t have to try to get sober AGAIN.
Old fashioned but a fact.
BE WELL
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Alberta
Posts: 51
That's the only reason I haven't drank yet is cuz yesterday sucked. I looked like crap, felt like crap, thought like crap,
... Was crap.
Today I'll at least try to be fertilizer... Within a year maybe a seed of hope will have planted in my fecally constituents and blossomed like a tree into a lively new life...
But for now... I'm crap. This is how I feel.
What can I do to position myself for success today?
... Was crap.
Today I'll at least try to be fertilizer... Within a year maybe a seed of hope will have planted in my fecally constituents and blossomed like a tree into a lively new life...
But for now... I'm crap. This is how I feel.
What can I do to position myself for success today?
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Upstate New York
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Good to have you back with us. You'll feel a bit better each day, and you never have to go back to that miserable place ever again. Stay here and talk things over. 
You can do this.
You can do this.
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Australia
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If you're an AA person SimplyNothing - why not go back there and find some support?
Sure it may be humbling and even a bit embarrassing - but it shouldn't be.
If other alcoholics can;t understand relapse, who will?
D
Sure it may be humbling and even a bit embarrassing - but it shouldn't be.
If other alcoholics can;t understand relapse, who will?
D
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Join Date: Sep 2013
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Hey SimplyNothing,
I'm on day two right now. Sorry to hear that you are suffering so much, I'm in very much the same position as I'm typing this. I'm definitely an alcoholic, despite some denial going on in my family, but I can't blame them as they haven't been around lately to witness the full scale of my addiction. I'm 23 and haven't been an alki long enough to have really horrible withdrawals as well, but they do absolutely get worse. Been abusing alcohol for like seven years now, and each year it has gotten downhill more and more. Right now I struggle to string together 2 or 3 days of sobriety, but I'm trying to keep at it, as I realise otherwise I will never get out of this misery and probably die before reaching 30 years of age. I'm sending lots of love and courage to you, we can do this man! And yes, the depression is the absolute WORST thing about this crap.
I'm on day two right now. Sorry to hear that you are suffering so much, I'm in very much the same position as I'm typing this. I'm definitely an alcoholic, despite some denial going on in my family, but I can't blame them as they haven't been around lately to witness the full scale of my addiction. I'm 23 and haven't been an alki long enough to have really horrible withdrawals as well, but they do absolutely get worse. Been abusing alcohol for like seven years now, and each year it has gotten downhill more and more. Right now I struggle to string together 2 or 3 days of sobriety, but I'm trying to keep at it, as I realise otherwise I will never get out of this misery and probably die before reaching 30 years of age. I'm sending lots of love and courage to you, we can do this man! And yes, the depression is the absolute WORST thing about this crap.
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Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Toledo, OH
Posts: 55
It'll pass at about day 4, hang in there. That's been my experience. I don't mean this in any way to be medical advice, just my personal experience. I can eat on the fourth day. Detox sucks, and it's so hard to remember this feeling. It's good that you're coming out of denial early, the only thing you have to do to feel better is not drink. Again, hang in there, best of luck
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