Random Thought for the Day from an Alcoholic
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Random Thought for the Day from an Alcoholic
I woke up this morning with the flu feeling absolutely terrible. The good news is I have the sick days to deal with it as well as the upcoming weekend and it's the first time in probably 10 years I've caught it so I can't complain too much.
Anyway, as I was laying in bed staring at the ceiling trying to figure out what I could hold down for breakfast. For some reason I thought of another time when I was a small child I came down with and exceptionally bad case of the flu shortly after eating Polish sausage.
To this day, decades later, the smell of, let alone the taste of cooked Polish sausage will trigger my gag reflex.
I'm going somewhere with this, trust me.
Now, I must have withdrawn from alcohol 20+ times before calling it quits and I know at least a handful of those withdrawals were exponentially worse than a bad case of the flu. How the heck was I able to not only drink alcohol after such misery, but crave it when to this day I can't handle cooked Polish sausage?
Dumb post I know but there's not another group that would have an idea why this is perplexing me at the moment. Thanks for listening to me blabber.
Anyway, as I was laying in bed staring at the ceiling trying to figure out what I could hold down for breakfast. For some reason I thought of another time when I was a small child I came down with and exceptionally bad case of the flu shortly after eating Polish sausage.
To this day, decades later, the smell of, let alone the taste of cooked Polish sausage will trigger my gag reflex.
I'm going somewhere with this, trust me.
Now, I must have withdrawn from alcohol 20+ times before calling it quits and I know at least a handful of those withdrawals were exponentially worse than a bad case of the flu. How the heck was I able to not only drink alcohol after such misery, but crave it when to this day I can't handle cooked Polish sausage?
Dumb post I know but there's not another group that would have an idea why this is perplexing me at the moment. Thanks for listening to me blabber.
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An interesting thought. In AA's tenth step promises it says "if tempted, we recoil as iffrom a hot flame" . This has been my experience, the very thought of drinking fills me with revulsion. This is what it means to be recovered.
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One word- addiction. It defies logical/rational well informed thought. It just is. Chemicals, hormones, food, emotional triggers, childhood, PTSD, tiredness, guilt, smells, peripheral vision, music, ANYTHING.
Different parts of the brain vying for control. Dreams. External feedback. Headaches -(at this point I usually go into thought melt down and watch British comedy).
Prayers.
Different parts of the brain vying for control. Dreams. External feedback. Headaches -(at this point I usually go into thought melt down and watch British comedy).
Prayers.
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Who knows. I had a friend back in my college days that got dog sick from drinking whiskey mixed with root beer. To this day he can't stand even the smell of root beer. Not whiskey though. He's fine with that.
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Baffling huh? Touch hot stove, get burned. Eat polish sausage, barf. When detoxing from alcohol however the brain tells us 'you're going to die' (which in rare cases we can) so we'll do whatever it takes. Survival.
Here's a random thought: I have a yeast infection on the skin of my rib cage. OMG. I never thought there would be anything more horrid than alcohol detox. This is it. My dermatologist just made fun of me and said 'yet another reason NOT to do hot yoga'. ARGHGHGHG.
Hope you feel better soon!
Here's a random thought: I have a yeast infection on the skin of my rib cage. OMG. I never thought there would be anything more horrid than alcohol detox. This is it. My dermatologist just made fun of me and said 'yet another reason NOT to do hot yoga'. ARGHGHGHG.
Hope you feel better soon!
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Hehe, thanks guys. That was just a weird thought that popped in my head when I was laying there thinking "OMG I haven't felt like this since..." you guessed it, alcohol withdrawals. Just amazing how you keep going back after a couple good ones.
On the bright side, I can't remember the last time I watched The Price is Right.
On the bright side, I can't remember the last time I watched The Price is Right.
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Originally Posted by Upstairs 
Who knows. I had a friend back in my college days that got dog sick from drinking whiskey mixed with root beer. To this day he can't stand even the smell of root beer. Not whiskey though. He's fine with that.
Never again.
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This is an interesting issue. Two years ago I was drinking every day, five a day on average, and had been for many years. I caught a stomach virus and didn't want to drink for two weeks. I decided to use this "lucky" sickness to my advantage. While I was sick, I just kept imagining that the alcohol caused it, so I created an association between alcohol and nausea etc. After two weeks, I did start drinking again, but only a few days a week. It was the beginning of sobriety for me.
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Originally Posted by otter
I woke up this morning with the flu feeling absolutely terrible. The good news is I have the sick days to deal with it as well as the upcoming weekend and it's the first time in probably 10 years I've caught it so I can't complain too much.
Anyway, as I was laying in bed staring at the ceiling trying to figure out what I could hold down for breakfast. For some reason I thought of another time when I was a small child I came down with and exceptionally bad case of the flu shortly after eating Polish sausage.
To this day, decades later, the smell of, let alone the taste of cooked Polish sausage will trigger my gag reflex.
I'm going somewhere with this, trust me.
Now, I must have withdrawn from alcohol 20+ times before calling it quits and I know at least a handful of those withdrawals were exponentially worse than a bad case of the flu. How the heck was I able to not only drink alcohol after such misery, but crave it when to this day I can't handle cooked Polish sausage?
Dumb post I know but there's not another group that would have an idea why this is perplexing me at the moment. Thanks for listening to me blabber.
Anyway, as I was laying in bed staring at the ceiling trying to figure out what I could hold down for breakfast. For some reason I thought of another time when I was a small child I came down with and exceptionally bad case of the flu shortly after eating Polish sausage.
To this day, decades later, the smell of, let alone the taste of cooked Polish sausage will trigger my gag reflex.
I'm going somewhere with this, trust me.
Now, I must have withdrawn from alcohol 20+ times before calling it quits and I know at least a handful of those withdrawals were exponentially worse than a bad case of the flu. How the heck was I able to not only drink alcohol after such misery, but crave it when to this day I can't handle cooked Polish sausage?
Dumb post I know but there's not another group that would have an idea why this is perplexing me at the moment. Thanks for listening to me blabber.
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