7 Days today!
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: St Petersburg, FL
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7 Days today!
I am so happy to say that today marks 7 days of sobriety for me! I am so grateful that I haven't drank and I actually don't want to. I went to some very very scary new lows last week including jail. I emerged absolutely horrified and shaken, not sure that I even wanted to go on with life.
Today I am grateful that those things happened. Nothing, and I mean nothing in the past was ever enough for me to stop and seriously think that I can't drink no matter what. Now I know with absolute certainty that I cannot drink safely ever again. I black out, say and do things that are completely contrary to who I am when I am sober and in recovery. I don't ever want to hurt myself or the ones that I love like that again.
Physically, I am getting stronger everyday and the hot and cold sweats are finally starting to ease up. Mentally, I am slowly having less periods of anxiety and a few more glimmers of hope.
I am so grateful for this forum and for everybody on it. Thanks to all of you that have offered advice, feedback and words of encouragement. It truly helps me more than I can say.
Today I am grateful that those things happened. Nothing, and I mean nothing in the past was ever enough for me to stop and seriously think that I can't drink no matter what. Now I know with absolute certainty that I cannot drink safely ever again. I black out, say and do things that are completely contrary to who I am when I am sober and in recovery. I don't ever want to hurt myself or the ones that I love like that again.
Physically, I am getting stronger everyday and the hot and cold sweats are finally starting to ease up. Mentally, I am slowly having less periods of anxiety and a few more glimmers of hope.
I am so grateful for this forum and for everybody on it. Thanks to all of you that have offered advice, feedback and words of encouragement. It truly helps me more than I can say.
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Congrats on one week sober!
The worst of the physical w/d should be over now and it should get better from here on out. There will be some rough spots, living sober doesn't automatically make your life 'wonderful' but handling problems sober is way better than trying to deal with them drunk. I wish you the best! :ghug3
The worst of the physical w/d should be over now and it should get better from here on out. There will be some rough spots, living sober doesn't automatically make your life 'wonderful' but handling problems sober is way better than trying to deal with them drunk. I wish you the best! :ghug3
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Mississippi
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7 days - yea!!!!! Congratulations! It took alot of convincing for me, too, Steven. But the good news is that once we have that conviction, we can begin a new life ODAAT. Even after a month, it's still getting better! See ya around SR!
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Join Date: Dec 2009
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Congratulations on your decision to take your life back, Steven!
7 days is a great accomplishment!
As you begin to feel better and better, be aware that the 'feel okay' monster in our head is waiting patiently to coax us into thinking that just one wouldn't hurt.
For me, there was never just one - it might as well have been 100.
Try to use the memory of what you've gone through as motivation for not wanting to go back there. Things for me didn't get better, only worse, each time I thought I had gotten it and thought I could control it.
Continue to cruise around the forums to read about other's experiences and let us know how things progress with you. Glad you're here!
7 days is a great accomplishment!
As you begin to feel better and better, be aware that the 'feel okay' monster in our head is waiting patiently to coax us into thinking that just one wouldn't hurt.
For me, there was never just one - it might as well have been 100.
Try to use the memory of what you've gone through as motivation for not wanting to go back there. Things for me didn't get better, only worse, each time I thought I had gotten it and thought I could control it.
Continue to cruise around the forums to read about other's experiences and let us know how things progress with you. Glad you're here!
Nice work!
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