Starting Over
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Starting Over
I've been hesitant to post again. I was at three and a half days sober and became overwhelmed by anxiety and depression and reached for relief. I stayed there sixteen days. I decided to try with the help of a doctor this time, which is what I did back in the day that resulted in nine years of sobriety. Yesterday was seventeen days without a drink. I'm feeling positive with no anxiety and very little depression.
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I went through this same thing, tkdan. I wish I hadn't been such a slow learner, but the setbacks resulted in me finally admitting I could never touch the stuff. It would never bring the long term relief from anxiety that I needed. We think it's helping, but after a brief numbing effect, it just creates more chaos. Each time I relapsed was more horrific than the last & harder to rise above. I hope you won't put yourself through that again. Never hesitate to post, no matter what's going on.
Congrats on your 18 days! You are doing this.
Congrats on your 18 days! You are doing this.
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I am often overwhelmed by depression, I’ve had a problem with it since birth. I used to bang my head against the crib until it bled....
Drinking, however: is never the answer, I throw literally anything else at it that I can rather than resort to drinking. If I drink, I will binge, and binge drinking makes me miserable.
Try virtually anything else: nutrition. Exercise. Sleep. Distraction. Family. Friends. Sugar. Movies. Running. Weightlifting. Yoga. Fasting. Hot baths (a personal favorite of mine). Close the blinds and crawl into bed in pajamas, clean sheets and cry. Dig in the dirt...clearing weeds or planting. Babysit someone’s kid so they can go out. Put on your most comfortable clothes, grab a coffee, and sit in an AA meeting.
Anything. Anything but drinking.
Drinking, however: is never the answer, I throw literally anything else at it that I can rather than resort to drinking. If I drink, I will binge, and binge drinking makes me miserable.
Try virtually anything else: nutrition. Exercise. Sleep. Distraction. Family. Friends. Sugar. Movies. Running. Weightlifting. Yoga. Fasting. Hot baths (a personal favorite of mine). Close the blinds and crawl into bed in pajamas, clean sheets and cry. Dig in the dirt...clearing weeds or planting. Babysit someone’s kid so they can go out. Put on your most comfortable clothes, grab a coffee, and sit in an AA meeting.
Anything. Anything but drinking.
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Originally Posted by Hevyn 
I went through this same thing, tkdan. I wish I hadn't been such a slow learner, but the setbacks resulted in me finally admitting I could never touch the stuff. It would never bring the long term relief from anxiety that I needed. We think it's helping, but after a brief numbing effect, it just creates more chaos. Each time I relapsed was more horrific than the last & harder to rise above. I hope you won't put yourself through that again. Never hesitate to post, no matter what's going on.
Congrats on your 18 days! You are doing this.
Congrats on your 18 days! You are doing this.
What Hevyn said so succinctly.
Wishing you the best. We understand.
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