Is it true that the first two weeks are the hardest?

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07-02-2015, 12:56 AM

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MythOfSisyphus

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Originally Posted by doggonecarl

There are difficult passages throughout the first year of sobriety. The first two weeks have their own set of challenges, mainly physical, as your body heals, and mental, as the brain recovers.

+1. Stuff crops up now and then, but the beginning is the toughest, or at least it was for me. The first week specifically. I learned right away that I hadn't really just 'gone to sleep' in many years- I just drank til I passed out. When I would go to bed sober I got panic attacks at first. I felt like I couldn't breath and it was very hard to get any sleep. But that passed after a while.