When you have an 'off' day..
When you have an 'off' day..
Well it is turning out to be not a good day today. Everything I touch seems to turn to worms (to use a Brit expression), even walking past a coffee table, ends up with something being knocked off it! Burnt my hand on something out of the microwave, spilled hot water all over the kitchen..and I feel irritable and annoyed with almost everything.
I'm only just under three weeks in, so I'm not expecting miracles, so I'm putting this down to 'readjustment'..or else I'm just having a crap day of course.
Some home made soup under my belt now (what I burnt my fingers on) and the gym when I have digested that I think – then a meeting tonight.
I may be feeling a bit off but I am reminding myself regularly how far 'off' I was feeling just before I quit almost three weeks ago now. There's no comparison really!
I'm only just under three weeks in, so I'm not expecting miracles, so I'm putting this down to 'readjustment'..or else I'm just having a crap day of course.
Some home made soup under my belt now (what I burnt my fingers on) and the gym when I have digested that I think – then a meeting tonight.
I may be feeling a bit off but I am reminding myself regularly how far 'off' I was feeling just before I quit almost three weeks ago now. There's no comparison really!
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Some days just kinda stink. Or we feel like everything we touch or do is just...wrong. I had to learn to be ok with it, try to laugh and often- use my Put Myself To Bed Early technique. Get to tomorrow.
Normal people hand normal good and bads better than we do - with time (I am 342 days sober today) everything from my coordination (much less dropping or knocking things over) to my emotional stability have kept improving. When I get upset or frustrated, I handle it better and more quickly.
Hang in there. Today is here, right? Make it a great sober day.
Normal people hand normal good and bads better than we do - with time (I am 342 days sober today) everything from my coordination (much less dropping or knocking things over) to my emotional stability have kept improving. When I get upset or frustrated, I handle it better and more quickly.
Hang in there. Today is here, right? Make it a great sober day.
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You're doing really well. Three weeks is kind of a crossroads where the alcohol has cleared out but your body and brain are still looking around going, "what just happened?" I was a menace with the brain fog. I put a spatula in my husband's sock drawer (clean, but still) and I put four loaves of bread in the oven...and forgot about them. Completely. To the extent that I wandered into the kitchen later and decided I had just left the oven on for some reason...and turned it off. Bye bread.
It gets better. Just be gentle with yourself.
It gets better. Just be gentle with yourself.
Actually, even after 9 years I still enjoy my naps.
I always tell myself,
as long as I'm not drinking, then it's ok.
M-Bob
Off days happen. I am also a fan of putting myself to bed early when I seem to be having a day when everything I touch "turns to worms." I love that phrase, I'm stealing it!
Early on your brain is still healing - it will be for a while. Be gentle with yourself. I had to stop telling myself I'm an idiot when I made little physical or mental blunders in the early days (even now) because I was getting over a very bad illness and it was to be expected for a while. That's how I thought of it.
Early on your brain is still healing - it will be for a while. Be gentle with yourself. I had to stop telling myself I'm an idiot when I made little physical or mental blunders in the early days (even now) because I was getting over a very bad illness and it was to be expected for a while. That's how I thought of it.
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: UK
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Me too, I just dropped a load of yoghurt all over the carpet and my dogs won't even clear it up for me (and they eat each other's sick). Bleurghh. But if I was drunk I would have shouted at the yoghurt and the carpet and blamed my ex somehow.
My "off" days also include the 'mind-set' that everything is "no fun" or "what's the purpose...I will only have to do that chore all over again the next day"...uggg I hate those days!
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