Day 2 and I'm freaking out!
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Hi Jasmine, I know it is difficult but stay the course. Its great you got some food in you and cleaned up, its a great start. Each day you will likely feel better. And once you do, you don't have go through it again. Eleven years is a pretty healthy stretch of daily drinking. Hang in there.
Excellent!!
Lots of good advise and I'll have to also get behind the water wagon. It really does help. Just make sure you are taking care of the basics to sustain life or your experience is that much harder.
Water
Vitamins
B-vitamin supplement is essential for alcoholics. Healthy food
Fruit
Veggies
Dark chocolate is also a life savor. Your body is used to running in thousands of empty calories. Dark chocolate was an amazing pick me up.
I also didn't worry about "meals" at first. Instead i ate throughout the day. It helps maintain glucose levels and therefor energy and positive mood.
Pray or meditate goes a long way too.
What your going through is hard. There's no joking about it. But the bottom line is....alcohol has caused it. It's evil at soooo many levels.
All you have to do is get through acute withdrawals and you'll be fine. The better you take care of your body and mind, the quicker and easier the WD's become.
Many people would have caved by now and given up. You haven't and that says A LOT. That says you're serious about living a NORMAL life. One without suicidal thoughts, major depression, or severe anxiety. One without lying to everyone around you and one where you're PROUD of yourself. Go for it!!
Lots of good advise and I'll have to also get behind the water wagon. It really does help. Just make sure you are taking care of the basics to sustain life or your experience is that much harder.
Water
Vitamins
B-vitamin supplement is essential for alcoholics. Healthy food
Fruit
Veggies
Dark chocolate is also a life savor. Your body is used to running in thousands of empty calories. Dark chocolate was an amazing pick me up.
I also didn't worry about "meals" at first. Instead i ate throughout the day. It helps maintain glucose levels and therefor energy and positive mood.
Pray or meditate goes a long way too.
What your going through is hard. There's no joking about it. But the bottom line is....alcohol has caused it. It's evil at soooo many levels.
All you have to do is get through acute withdrawals and you'll be fine. The better you take care of your body and mind, the quicker and easier the WD's become.
Many people would have caved by now and given up. You haven't and that says A LOT. That says you're serious about living a NORMAL life. One without suicidal thoughts, major depression, or severe anxiety. One without lying to everyone around you and one where you're PROUD of yourself. Go for it!!
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Join Date: Aug 2015
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Thanks again everyone. Wow, what a day, but I'm still sober! Hoping by Tuesday the worse of the withdrawals will be over. I have been drinking water from the spring and I'm all ready on an all organic, plant based diet- heck, I don't even use shampoo with chemicals or cleaning products that are toxic, yet I am an alcoholic and smoker? Talk about shame. If you guys knew what I did for a living you'd scratch your head and wonder wth I'm thinking...that's the insanity of addiction though, isn't it? My BP is good, shakes are faint, probably only scoring a 3, which is good. Much better than I thought it would be. Vomiting and dizzy. Very lethargic but that seems normal? On an up note, I have binge watched netflix, played with my ferrets and messaged people on fb that I have been pushing away since my hubby died. Was I honest about what was going on? Ahhhh no, but it's a start. Reaching out to you guys is easier right now. Thank you all so much for being here.
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