Yet Another Idea for a Post
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Yet Another Idea for a Post
I’m posting again because I’d like an honest document on how things are at present as well as a list of things I’m doing to combat the state I’m in
I’d like to look back on this later so I won’t ever forget
How I am right now:
Scared
Depressed (a little bit)
Focused on death( not suicidal- focused on this as an occurrence if I keep boozing)
Exhausted
Very little appetite
The cravings sneak up on me
And lastly- the fact that I’m trying to never drink again
Things that are helping;
My family
AA meetings
This forum
Thinking of the future and knowing there will be a point where things won’t be this way
I’d like to look back on this later so I won’t ever forget
How I am right now:
Scared
Depressed (a little bit)
Focused on death( not suicidal- focused on this as an occurrence if I keep boozing)
Exhausted
Very little appetite
The cravings sneak up on me
And lastly- the fact that I’m trying to never drink again
Things that are helping;
My family
AA meetings
This forum
Thinking of the future and knowing there will be a point where things won’t be this way
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Thinking of the future and knowing there will be a point where things won’t be this way
It gets better.
bona fido dog-lover
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At around 3 months sober, I was still feeling discontented and not that happy. It was suggested that I start practicing gratitude every day. Each day find at least one thing I am grateful for.
It's a great positive exercise and really improved my attitude. It helps me focus on the good and not the bad, the haves and not the don't-haves. Try a little gratitude. It might make you happier.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/o...pier.html?_r=0
It's a great positive exercise and really improved my attitude. It helps me focus on the good and not the bad, the haves and not the don't-haves. Try a little gratitude.
It might make you happier. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/o...pier.html?_r=0
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It is NOT a picnic. Not only is it difficult to learn to live inside our own heads, it’s like our entire culture pushes against the very thing we are trying to do. Run a marathon....then add 60mph winds....or 100 degree heat.
That’s why we can’t do it on our own. The forces are too strong out there, we have to band together so we know other people are doing the same damned thing, every day, like we are. THAT helps me.
That’s why we can’t do it on our own. The forces are too strong out there, we have to band together so we know other people are doing the same damned thing, every day, like we are. THAT helps me.
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