I need to join this forum and class. I'm tired of living my life based around a bottle of wine. Well, to be honest, usually around a box of wine. It's physically and mentally exhausting.

Day 7 feels like Heaven!

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rah555 - welcome aboard :) glad you're here

You're in the right place. You can do this

Hey class :wave: Just wanted to check in....AV was a little annoying earlier after work & is already teasing me about tomorrow.....funny thing I don't even want to drink really.....just a stupid habit my body needs to break! Easier said than done!

TJV I just had Chili Cheese Fritos the other day ~ SO good! :)

Getting read to wind down as day 12 comes to a close....Thanks everyone for being here! :thanks

Yes, absolutely! I am trying to build up the strategies but one thing that is still missing is the "personal voice" from someone I personally know who can talk me down from the drinking ledge.

I have been coming here beforehand a lot more often but I am finding out that I am a social creature and benefit from the audible voice of a trusted source to push me in the right direction.

Good thing is that the upcoming weekend is packed... Six Flags Fright Fest with the wife and twins on Friday, a college football game on Saturday, and a 10 or so hour run on a retro arcade game on Sunday where I am trying to reclaim the house high score. (If you need explanation on the last thing, let me know. :) )

Having crazy dreams. My neighbours complained because I was yelling in my sleep apparently. I was dreaming that I was being chased by an Elephant haha. Well, that was a great safari dream.

It sure is exhausting! Welcome aboard :)

I try to make it to my parent's house every Monday night. I love them so much and I'm glad we have a relationship, but, well, family can sometimes be an emotional trigger. I just wanted to publically state that I felt like a piece of gum on the bottom of a shoe during the drive home, and I will not drink about it or anything else. Other than that it was a great night :)

welcome Rah and Tetrax :)

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Hi classmates
just a quick check in on day 6. Hope all are here and hanging in. I'm too busy with work to post more but read daily and thank you all.
SeaSlug

Hi Everyone,
Going on day 16, been while since I had so many days in between.
Great tips Hawkeye, will be cheking that app out. I always try to join in the free meditations from Deepak/Oprah but those are available for a limited time only and I usually skip several days or stop altogether, although I'm convinced that meditation is useful for basically everything.
I agree, very useful tips here and thanks to technology we have a lot more tools at our fingertips.
So great to see more people joining us...welcome & forza!!
Cravings are not too bad at the moment, but boy I had a dream last night: I stumbled and had to go back to day 1, was soooooo relieved it was just a dream.
Great proactive thinking!
As for other tips. I’m not a doctor so not giving any advice in that regard, but a few weeks ago I stumbled on an old book about supplements on the flea market. The use of supplements always interests me in regards to my allergies.
Wasn’t aware at first but it also mentions alcoholism and that supplements can help. For instance brewer’s yeast (contains almost every b vitamin) which my family and I are taking now anyway (to prepare for winter). If it’s not against forum rules (?) I’d be happy to post what else it says about that.
Have a great day

Day 21. I've reduced my anti-drepressent medication significantly and I'm in a such a horrible withdrawal I can barely go through my day :(

Hi Justin - did you do that with a Drs involement. ot just off your own bat?

Hi Ben - I don't think you necessarily need to be spiritual to get into recovery but often that's the only language we have to describing what occurs?

TeeJay - I don't feel conned :)

you may have been conning yourself but having been there, I think I have a pretty good idea of where you've been and where you're at now.

Throw everything you have at this - permanent lasting change really is possible, with enough action behind it.

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Hope you're doing this with the help of a doctor indeed Justin, a lot of times slow is the way to go.
Maybe a bit much all at the same time?

For myself I feel like this with food also, I try not to use not drinking as an excuse to eat more rubbish, but in moments where I have to choose I'll choose a rubbish food...because that never gave me blackouts, let me insult people and become stuborn or let me fall with my head on the pavement :)

For those new to the site, we usually close threads at 500 posts to stop them getting too unwieldy.

We then open a continuation of the thread :)

We continue here:

https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums...-part-2-a.html

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