Feel so bad I am 2 days from 4 years without drinking. I feel beaten today. Utterly beaten. I wish I could sleep for a year |
What's up Sasha :hug: |
((Sasha)) What's going on? |
:hug: Sasha |
Wishing you well Sasha x |
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Please don't pick up Sasha. :hug: |
Hugs. Stay strong! |
Learning how to remain sober for almost 4 yrs. is a huge personal accomplishment and is something to be extremely grateful for because it isn't easy. Now that you know how to stay sober, you can start working on other life, healthy issues that plaque many of us each day. There are quite a few recovery programs to follow and incorporate in all areas of our life to help us build a strong recovery foundation to live upon for yrs to come. Everything in life is a learning process. We learned how to avoid people, places and things associated with alcohol so that we are not tempted to fall back into our dreaded illness, dis-ease. Continue to learn all that you can to help better yourself, to strengthen yourself, to love yourself, more, to forgive more, love, care, undserstand, communicate and so on. If health is a problem, getting a full check up to make sure all your insides are working well because as we get older, we go thru many changes, mentally, emotionally, physically, physcologically etc. Not only do we age more, so does our insides, so what use to work back in the day, we may need to tweek some things today. Our bodies may need a certain vitamin which we could get in the right foods we eat, but then if we don't eat them, our bodies maybe lacking that certain something to help us function better. Like a car, if we don't take it in for a check up and put in new fuel or oil then our car will operate sluggishly. If we don't know what to do, we ask for help from our fellow SR members, our doctors, someone who is supportive of your recovery and understands your needs. If sleep is a problem of concern, speak to your doctor, always reminding him or her about your continuing recovery success and that it is extremely important to you and your program to not be given anything narcotic or habit forming. Depression and anxiety along with alcoholism, diabetics and many other illness out there is nothing to mess around with or to take lightly. We want to be happy, healthy, to feel good, well rested, pain free from things, so never hesitate to seek answers to the questions that will further you along in your own recovery journey. :) |
I feel like I am going mad. I am under pressure from work. I don't think anyone understands. I don't feel like anyone cares. Today was hideous. Thats how I know nobody cares. I am a novelty to them. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't swear. They make fun and think the fact I don't swear, smoke or drink makes me a bore, a goody 2 shoes. The reality - they don't know the damage I am capable of with a few vodka's inside me. They don't know that I can drink harder and faster than any of them. They don't know what a mess i am capable of making. |
Everyone here cares Sasha... Sending big hugs your way. :grouphug: |
Sasha, if your co-workers don't appreciate what a great person you are, it's their loss. If they are ridiculing you because of your choices to live a sober life, they are the fools. You are on the right road. Hold your head up high and know that you are okay. |
Precisely what Anna said these people are fools I'm sorry Sasha x |
Maybe a good read will help? This one of my favorites and it sounds like she might be a kindred spirit? Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety, by Sacha Z. Scoblic It's hard to be the only grown-up in the room...sending you a hug. |
I'm sorry you have to work with such silly people, Sasha. Do you have friends outside of work? D |
I will try reading. I just don't understand why it is so strange that somebody does not want to drink. What is the big deal? Really? I don't understand people who have an agenda. People who would step over you to get ahead. I am tired of it all. Thats why I want to sleep forever and a day. |
don't let them steal your peace. what they think of you does not matter.....when you leave for the day, you leave THEM behind. drinking will solve nothing. |
^^^this^^^ You have the wisdom to know what to do. Don't let people rent space in your head. |
I too delt with people who first were nice and all that, they turned on me, someone who would treat them the way I would want to be treated. And yet they treated me cruely just like you said, just to move ahead. They would kiss ass just to move up in their jobs. Run over anyone who got in their way, be disrespectful, gossip, squealed, back stab, ...you know the routine. I too got tired of it. Sick and tired of it. I also stayed close with my program, prayed and tried to let go of those unwanted resentments that could and would cause health issues. In my case, I am grateful that I was able to let go of the work force and retire in my early 50's with my husband. Im sure there are many good folks still out there in the world, but many ive worked with seem to be lacking something good in their lives or upbringing. Who know how many of thes folks are under the influence of some sort of toxic substances which make them act differently from that of someone clean and sober. I use to be someone under the influence of alcohol and I would be manipulative, would lie, etc, and no one ever knew how sick I really was inside because I hide it so well behind the mask. I prayed, I cried a many a times in sobriety during my working career and all I knew was the Man upstairs did hear my cries of despair and in time He would take care of me. It was that Faith and belief I have within me that I know He would and could take care of me, guide me in the direction I needed to go, in His time and not mine. So in some cases in my sobriety, I had to be patient and turn my will and life over, placing it into His hand for safe keeping, guidance, protection. Sure enough my time came and once again I am grateful for my life in sobriety and Faith in my Higher Power. |
Wow, they are really, really threatened by you. I've been in that kind of hyper-competitive workplace and it's really tough. Maybe it's time to look elsewhere? Hold your head high, best you can. :grouphug: |
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