..and week one comes to an end..
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..and week one comes to an end..
The end of a week since I quit and off to bed shortly. A real roller coaster of a week, starting with the nastiness of two or three nights of very poor sleep, coping with withdrawal and toxicity from the booze and then slowly coming back to something more like normality.
In my case I am amazed at how quickly I feel better. The fear and anxiety of active alcoholism is perhaps the worst element of it for me and at the end of the week it has gone, on a scale of one to ten, from 11 to around 2.
That alone makes it all worthwhile.
The trick now is not to forget how awful that place I have so recently left behind really is.
Thanks to all for the great support on offer here 24 hours a day.
In my case I am amazed at how quickly I feel better. The fear and anxiety of active alcoholism is perhaps the worst element of it for me and at the end of the week it has gone, on a scale of one to ten, from 11 to around 2.
That alone makes it all worthwhile.
The trick now is not to forget how awful that place I have so recently left behind really is.
Thanks to all for the great support on offer here 24 hours a day.
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Mentium, for me it wasn't so much the fear of the misery of getting drunk and blacking out and going through withdrawals again. It was more a realization that I was a waste, a waste of time, of money, of effort, of skin, a waste of everything. There were things I wanted to do, to achieve and to be and they were 100% inconsistent with having another single drink. Ever.
I never worry about the need to remember my past, because that isn't why I am sober. I am sober for my future.
I never worry about the need to remember my past, because that isn't why I am sober. I am sober for my future.
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Hi Mentium
been following your posts with some empathy as it is day 8 for me today too. Anxiety is subsiding and a quite few green shoots of optimism coming through. For me, that is both really positive and also potentially hazardous. Takes so little to put the horrible experiences of the past down to trick of the light and have just the one. But I won't! :-)
It has been a great help to me to hear from you and others who are travelling the same stretch of road in terms of days sober.
Thanks a lot for some great posts and well done!
CC
been following your posts with some empathy as it is day 8 for me today too. Anxiety is subsiding and a quite few green shoots of optimism coming through. For me, that is both really positive and also potentially hazardous. Takes so little to put the horrible experiences of the past down to trick of the light and have just the one. But I won't! :-)
It has been a great help to me to hear from you and others who are travelling the same stretch of road in terms of days sober.
Thanks a lot for some great posts and well done!
CC
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Originally Posted by chordcowboy 
Hi Mentium
been following your posts with some empathy as it is day 8 for me today too. Anxiety is subsiding and a quite few green shoots of optimism coming through. For me, that is both really positive and also potentially hazardous. Takes so little to put the horrible experiences of the past down to trick of the light and have just the one. But I won't! :-)
It has been a great help to me to hear from you and others who are travelling the same stretch of road in terms of days sober.
Thanks a lot for some great posts and well done!
CC
been following your posts with some empathy as it is day 8 for me today too. Anxiety is subsiding and a quite few green shoots of optimism coming through. For me, that is both really positive and also potentially hazardous. Takes so little to put the horrible experiences of the past down to trick of the light and have just the one. But I won't! :-)
It has been a great help to me to hear from you and others who are travelling the same stretch of road in terms of days sober.
Thanks a lot for some great posts and well done!
CC
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