24 Hour Recovery Connections Part 487
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Join Date: Mar 2017
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Hit 10,606 steps today. I have been a busy beaver here at the house. Cleaned the spiky weeds out of the garden, cooked breakfast and dinner, vacuumed all the rooms, changed the sheets, cleaned the bathrooms and now I feel like some putty. My parents will be here Wednesday and MIL hasn’t “decided” when she will return. I’ll bet it will be Monday. Any who I’m going to enjoy what’s left of my Sunday. In for another 24.
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Toronto, Canada,
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Originally Posted by Dee74 
Lets not indulge in idle hearsay.
https://www.twincities.com/2020/05/2...apolis-unrest/
We're better than that.
Several of our community are current or former police officers.
Everyone - I understand the riots are a hot topic right now - no pun intended - but several members have told us they feel triggered by such discussions so we have made such discussions off topic.
Obviously the same applies now for any riots not in MN.
thanks for your cooperation
D
https://www.twincities.com/2020/05/2...apolis-unrest/
We're better than that.
Several of our community are current or former police officers.
Everyone - I understand the riots are a hot topic right now - no pun intended - but several members have told us they feel triggered by such discussions so we have made such discussions off topic.
Obviously the same applies now for any riots not in MN.
thanks for your cooperation
D
No problem, I didn't know this topic wasn't allowed.
Checking in for 24.
love is the answer
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: UK
Posts: 1,352
Checking in for 24 on day 3.
Still feeling low but I know a drink will make the lows lower.
Not sure how I'll get out of this funk. It's been a while in the making. Not sure I even want to try to get out of it yet. One hour at a time today.
I'll be leaning on SR a lot I think.
Be well.
Still feeling low but I know a drink will make the lows lower.
Not sure how I'll get out of this funk. It's been a while in the making. Not sure I even want to try to get out of it yet. One hour at a time today.
I'll be leaning on SR a lot I think.
Be well.
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Join Date: Apr 2020
Location: Saskatchewan.
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Originally Posted by NoGoingBack
... spent half the day sleeping on the sofa when I should have been doing stuff with my girlfriend on our day off.
Depression creeps in and I know it’s coming but am powerless to stop it so I just curl up and try to switch off.
Depression creeps in and I know it’s coming but am powerless to stop it so I just curl up and try to switch off.
I would loose 1/2 days quiet regularly to the sofa. Many times, full days.
I’m not lazy or incapable, I would feel it creeping in and it would sort of encompass me.
Days where I had lofty ambitions, if I delayed any, jumping up and starting to do something, I could get trapped on the couch for the day. Other days I would go out, work in the yard (acreage) do my thing and feel just fine about life.
Now I’m on an low dosage of SSRI. serotonin reuptake inhibitor. It treats me quite well.
Treating my anxiety with booze was HORRIBLE!! It would ease me for MAYBE 7 minutes of the 3-5 day bender I was about to endure. I’d end up in a really dark, hopeless place then.
I think, like many, you and I share the resolve that we just do not want to go back there.
Grateful for sobriety today.
I appreciate your post.
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Join Date: Oct 2018
Posts: 160
Hi Checking in! Two days of intense hiking this weekend...so thankful I could do it. It was not possible while I was smoking and drinking. I really needed the outdoor activity.
Sending support to everyone who needs it right now. Keeping my eyes on the prize which is another sober morning.
Sending support to everyone who needs it right now. Keeping my eyes on the prize which is another sober morning.
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Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Off the beaten track, UK
Posts: 812
Hey folks, hope everyone is ok...
Early check in before work, not feeling strong this morning but resisting the urge to call in sick. I’ll show up and do my best.
It seems like a lot of people I know have gone back out and drank again over the last couple of months (myself included starting at Christmas time). Folks with good amounts of sobriety behind them, working a program, staying connected etc and I’m wondering why?
For me it seemed to be an unconscious but deliberate decision, I’d already decided I was going to do it before I was even aware of the thought process and by the time I realised, it was already a foregone conclusion that I was powerless over, like being on autopilot...
I made myself quite unwell, pretty quickly. Everything else was out of the window, apart from thoughts of the next drink.
Coming up on 2 weeks sober again now, one day at a time. Still scared, still unhappy, but very grateful to wake up instead of coming round, not shaking and able to go about my day without constant paranoia about whether my colleagues etc will smell booze on me, all the ‘normal’ stuff...
Wishing everyone a safe, sober day. I’ll check in later on after work but stay safe for now good people.
James
Early check in before work, not feeling strong this morning but resisting the urge to call in sick. I’ll show up and do my best.
It seems like a lot of people I know have gone back out and drank again over the last couple of months (myself included starting at Christmas time). Folks with good amounts of sobriety behind them, working a program, staying connected etc and I’m wondering why?
For me it seemed to be an unconscious but deliberate decision, I’d already decided I was going to do it before I was even aware of the thought process and by the time I realised, it was already a foregone conclusion that I was powerless over, like being on autopilot...
I made myself quite unwell, pretty quickly. Everything else was out of the window, apart from thoughts of the next drink.
Coming up on 2 weeks sober again now, one day at a time. Still scared, still unhappy, but very grateful to wake up instead of coming round, not shaking and able to go about my day without constant paranoia about whether my colleagues etc will smell booze on me, all the ‘normal’ stuff...
Wishing everyone a safe, sober day. I’ll check in later on after work but stay safe for now good people.
James
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: California
Posts: 13,044
11:26 pm and checking in for another 24. It has been a pretty emotional weekend here. Yesterday there was a protest, and my oldest attended, she feels very strongly about issues of social justice, as do I. The protest was peaceful, and she was home way before dark. Last night there was rioting in our little city, and we had buildings burned to the ground, stores looted, and vandalized, our family went down with brooms and trash bags at 6:30 this morning, and it looked like a war zone. The positive is there were hundreds of people with brooms and trash bags, and a true sense of community.
There is so so much anger in the US right now, and I understand the anger. I really hope we can see systemic change happen, because it has been pretty bad here.
As for the year 2020, I’m done, I fold, I want to skip ahead to 2021 and start anew.
I hope everyone is doing well. Congrats to anyone celebrating a milestone, I will be right there with you tomorrow, or today for some of you. 4 and a half years, see another reason to skip to 2021, 5 years sober is supposed to signal long term recovery.
Sending lots of love to everyone.
❤️Delilah
There is so so much anger in the US right now, and I understand the anger. I really hope we can see systemic change happen, because it has been pretty bad here.
As for the year 2020, I’m done, I fold, I want to skip ahead to 2021 and start anew.
I hope everyone is doing well. Congrats to anyone celebrating a milestone, I will be right there with you tomorrow, or today for some of you. 4 and a half years, see another reason to skip to 2021, 5 years sober is supposed to signal long term recovery.
Sending lots of love to everyone.
❤️Delilah
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: California
Posts: 13,044
Originally Posted by NoGoingBack
Hey folks, hope everyone is ok...
Early check in before work, not feeling strong this morning but resisting the urge to call in sick. I’ll show up and do my best.
It seems like a lot of people I know have gone back out and drank again over the last couple of months (myself included starting at Christmas time). Folks with good amounts of sobriety behind them, working a program, staying connected etc and I’m wondering why?
For me it seemed to be an unconscious but deliberate decision, I’d already decided I was going to do it before I was even aware of the thought process and by the time I realised, it was already a foregone conclusion that I was powerless over, like being on autopilot...
I made myself quite unwell, pretty quickly. Everything else was out of the window, apart from thoughts of the next drink.
Coming up on 2 weeks sober again now, one day at a time. Still scared, still unhappy, but very grateful to wake up instead of coming round, not shaking and able to go about my day without constant paranoia about whether my colleagues etc will smell booze on me, all the ‘normal’ stuff...
Wishing everyone a safe, sober day. I’ll check in later on after work but stay safe for now good people.
James
Early check in before work, not feeling strong this morning but resisting the urge to call in sick. I’ll show up and do my best.
It seems like a lot of people I know have gone back out and drank again over the last couple of months (myself included starting at Christmas time). Folks with good amounts of sobriety behind them, working a program, staying connected etc and I’m wondering why?
For me it seemed to be an unconscious but deliberate decision, I’d already decided I was going to do it before I was even aware of the thought process and by the time I realised, it was already a foregone conclusion that I was powerless over, like being on autopilot...
I made myself quite unwell, pretty quickly. Everything else was out of the window, apart from thoughts of the next drink.
Coming up on 2 weeks sober again now, one day at a time. Still scared, still unhappy, but very grateful to wake up instead of coming round, not shaking and able to go about my day without constant paranoia about whether my colleagues etc will smell booze on me, all the ‘normal’ stuff...
Wishing everyone a safe, sober day. I’ll check in later on after work but stay safe for now good people.
James
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