24 Hour Recovery Connections Part 416
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: yorkshire UK
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Good morning all. Its 9.30am here in the UK. Please count me in for another 24 hours sober and clean. Congratulations to those celebrating a milestone, my thoughts and prayers go out to those suffering and struggling.
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Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: UK
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As I approach my 2nd sober anniversary, I remembered that when I stopped drinking I kept a journal for the first month. Last night it became grimly urgent to me that I find that journal and after pulling out loads of cupboards, I finally found it. I'm so glad I wrote it and I'm so glad I found it. It's really important to remember what it was like back then. What it was really like. This is the start of my journal...
Wednesday 2 November 2016 is my first day of sobriety and I am 100% committed to doing this. I'm doing this for me. I've noticed gradual changes in me - my memory, increased negative thoughts, blaming others, disintegrating family relationships, falling out with friends. I feel low and depressed. I hit rock bottom earlier when I sat in the car park outside the supermarket, thinking it would be so much better if I was dead.
Why am I concerned about my drinking?
- I drink too much. Alone and in company
- I black out
- I forget stuff all the time when I drink
- I suffer mood swings when I drink
- I become nasty, angry, full of hate when I drink
- I hate myself when I wake up
- I lie in bed desperate to know what I did/said the night before but also terrified about finding out what I did/said the night before
- I degrade myself when I drink
- I've spoiled so many great occasions by drinking too much
- Drinking makes me depressed, nervy, unstable. It affects my mental health
Tonight I'll read more. I want to immerse myself in my words from 2 years ago. I'm never going back to that. Never.
Congratulations to everyone celebrating a milestone today. 24 more for me please xxx
Wednesday 2 November 2016 is my first day of sobriety and I am 100% committed to doing this. I'm doing this for me. I've noticed gradual changes in me - my memory, increased negative thoughts, blaming others, disintegrating family relationships, falling out with friends. I feel low and depressed. I hit rock bottom earlier when I sat in the car park outside the supermarket, thinking it would be so much better if I was dead.
Why am I concerned about my drinking?
- I drink too much. Alone and in company
- I black out
- I forget stuff all the time when I drink
- I suffer mood swings when I drink
- I become nasty, angry, full of hate when I drink
- I hate myself when I wake up
- I lie in bed desperate to know what I did/said the night before but also terrified about finding out what I did/said the night before
- I degrade myself when I drink
- I've spoiled so many great occasions by drinking too much
- Drinking makes me depressed, nervy, unstable. It affects my mental health
Tonight I'll read more. I want to immerse myself in my words from 2 years ago. I'm never going back to that. Never.
Congratulations to everyone celebrating a milestone today. 24 more for me please xxx
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Join Date: Oct 2018
Posts: 47
Completed my second 24 hours. 24 more, please.
Challenge tonight: going to a concert at a music hall with bar/restaurant. My beverage (diet coke) and meal (grilled chicken Caesar salad) are planned, and stated to my sister via text.
Challenge tonight: going to a concert at a music hall with bar/restaurant. My beverage (diet coke) and meal (grilled chicken Caesar salad) are planned, and stated to my sister via text.
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: German Village, Columbus with my love ♥
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Originally Posted by Minerva99 
Completed my second 24 hours. 24 more, please.
Challenge tonight: going to a concert at a music hall with bar/restaurant. My beverage (diet coke) and meal (grilled chicken Caesar salad) are planned, and stated to my sister via text.
Challenge tonight: going to a concert at a music hall with bar/restaurant. My beverage (diet coke) and meal (grilled chicken Caesar salad) are planned, and stated to my sister via text.
Sounds like an excellent plan love....thinking of you.
And so glad you joined us...
♥♥And hi everyone......love and huge hugs.
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