Things i Think I will Never Get Over
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Things i Think I will Never Get Over
Going to the store and a trooper get behind me. I panicked, realized I hadn't done anything but my heart would not quit racing. I kept thinking of getting pulled over sobriety test. My mind kept saying its ok my heart just kept it going.i am still anxious Alcolic PTSD?
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It is just in my mind. I do not like being cuffed and having PBJ sandwiches. Willl work with my thearapist. But in hindsite do good to be sober but funny I still takke the back roads.
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I'm the same way Fitz, I take the roads less traveled and am nervous if I see a cop. Hard to lose that sense of panic. One of my favorite things about being sober-never having to worry about sobriety tests!
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In time the PTSD of having a cop car behind you will leave. It has for myself
and many others that I know.
As a matter of fact, after I moved here over 20 years ago now, I was asked
by a sheriff friend to help out on New Year's Eve at a Sobriety Check Point.
That was New Year's 91/92. For years his wife being a coffee addict like me
would make me a 'new' and 'special' thermos of some new flavor of coffee
she had found. It was a real irony, here was this ex drunk doing the paper
work for DUI's roflmao. It just tickled me.
I stopped a few years ago, but did do it again last year. The 'Bat Mobile' is really
neat, with a few laptops all hooked into the 'system' at the sheriff's dept. It
was way more fun than it used to be, lol So much more that I have again
agreed to do it this New Years Eve, roflmao. I have friends in AA that when
they hear I am doing this job every New Years, they laugh so hard they almost
wet their pants and they say, "Now That Is Really Doing a 180 degree turn."
The 'fear' will leave. It takes time but it will leave. I was involved in an accident
not my fault a few years ago. Some woman made a left turn right into my
vehicle. Then she got out of her vehicle, wanted to give me her insurance info
and was saying we didn't need the police, while I had already called for a police
officer. And then when I got within 5 feet of her ............................... I smelled
IT. She reeked of alcohol.
I cleaned up ALL the wreckage of my past and the fear left. I truly did find out,
just as I had been taught as a child that "THE POLICEMAN IS MY FRIEND" lmao
Oh and the first thing I have to tell them when I go through a Sobriety
check point is that "I am licensed to carry concealed and there is a gun
in my vehicle." They always thank me. Then when they ask if I have
had any alcoholic beverages, I still take great pleasure in saying "No
Sir, or Ma'am not since June 7, 1981" and I laugh and so do they.
I also have had on every vehicle I have owned, since my sobriety, two
bumper stickers. The one on the left says "Sober and Crazy" and the
one on the right says "Easy Does It One Day At A Time". Most police
officers in this day and age are very familiar with those sayings on a
bumper sticker and what they mean.
It will fade, I promise you!!!
Love and hugs,
and many others that I know.
As a matter of fact, after I moved here over 20 years ago now, I was asked
by a sheriff friend to help out on New Year's Eve at a Sobriety Check Point.
That was New Year's 91/92. For years his wife being a coffee addict like me
would make me a 'new' and 'special' thermos of some new flavor of coffee
she had found. It was a real irony, here was this ex drunk doing the paper
work for DUI's roflmao. It just tickled me.
I stopped a few years ago, but did do it again last year. The 'Bat Mobile' is really
neat, with a few laptops all hooked into the 'system' at the sheriff's dept. It
was way more fun than it used to be, lol So much more that I have again
agreed to do it this New Years Eve, roflmao. I have friends in AA that when
they hear I am doing this job every New Years, they laugh so hard they almost
wet their pants and they say, "Now That Is Really Doing a 180 degree turn."
The 'fear' will leave. It takes time but it will leave. I was involved in an accident
not my fault a few years ago. Some woman made a left turn right into my
vehicle. Then she got out of her vehicle, wanted to give me her insurance info
and was saying we didn't need the police, while I had already called for a police
officer. And then when I got within 5 feet of her ............................... I smelled
IT. She reeked of alcohol.
I cleaned up ALL the wreckage of my past and the fear left. I truly did find out,
just as I had been taught as a child that "THE POLICEMAN IS MY FRIEND" lmao
Oh and the first thing I have to tell them when I go through a Sobriety
check point is that "I am licensed to carry concealed and there is a gun
in my vehicle." They always thank me. Then when they ask if I have
had any alcoholic beverages, I still take great pleasure in saying "No
Sir, or Ma'am not since June 7, 1981" and I laugh and so do they.
I also have had on every vehicle I have owned, since my sobriety, two
bumper stickers. The one on the left says "Sober and Crazy" and the
one on the right says "Easy Does It One Day At A Time". Most police
officers in this day and age are very familiar with those sayings on a
bumper sticker and what they mean.
It will fade, I promise you!!!
Love and hugs,
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I guess I really am a nut job.
I called the police and filed a complaint about a local police driving right up my tail and then trying to pass me on the right as I was attempting to move into the slow lane!!!
After the cop car passed me, it did the same thing to another car, doing probably about 80. Here in this state, local police are supposed to observe the rules of the road on interstate highways.
Had to go to the po-lice station so they could take my statement.
In the end, disciplinary action was taken against the cop.
I called the police and filed a complaint about a local police driving right up my tail and then trying to pass me on the right as I was attempting to move into the slow lane!!!
After the cop car passed me, it did the same thing to another car, doing probably about 80. Here in this state, local police are supposed to observe the rules of the road on interstate highways.
Had to go to the po-lice station so they could take my statement.
In the end, disciplinary action was taken against the cop.
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