I can't do this again
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I can't do this again
I don't think I have another withdrawal in me.
After this one that is.
I read something today, not sure what post, but it was along the lines of being harder to keep drinking than stop. I wasn't enjoying any of it the last few days, pure maintenance to keep this awful agony away.
Riding it out now, going into day 2, yet again. It really is painfully clear to me that withdrawal does get worse each time. I probably should have been in the hospital that first night, but I'm riding it out at home.
After this one that is.
I read something today, not sure what post, but it was along the lines of being harder to keep drinking than stop. I wasn't enjoying any of it the last few days, pure maintenance to keep this awful agony away.
Riding it out now, going into day 2, yet again. It really is painfully clear to me that withdrawal does get worse each time. I probably should have been in the hospital that first night, but I'm riding it out at home.
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Yes, I think job security would be at risk. Maybe not right when I got back due to laws and such, but soon thereafter. My field is fairly expansive but I'm not sure, took me 9 months to get this one. I just need to think about it
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I don't think I have another withdrawal in me.
After this one that is.
I read something today, not sure what post, but it was along the lines of being harder to keep drinking than stop. I wasn't enjoying any of it the last few days, pure maintenance to keep this awful agony away.
Riding it out now, going into day 2, yet again. It really is painfully clear to me that withdrawal does get worse each time. I probably should have been in the hospital that first night, but I'm riding it out at home.
After this one that is.
I read something today, not sure what post, but it was along the lines of being harder to keep drinking than stop. I wasn't enjoying any of it the last few days, pure maintenance to keep this awful agony away.
Riding it out now, going into day 2, yet again. It really is painfully clear to me that withdrawal does get worse each time. I probably should have been in the hospital that first night, but I'm riding it out at home.
I got sober without rehab so I know it's possible. I did spend 3 days in a hospital setting getting medically detoxed, but two of those days were a weekend so it was pretty easy not to tell my employer.
But you need to have a serious program, outpatient, therapy, counseling, AA or whatever.
If you've just been trying to get sober by yourself, like a lot of us try to do, it's very difficult.
But you need to have a serious program, outpatient, therapy, counseling, AA or whatever.
If you've just been trying to get sober by yourself, like a lot of us try to do, it's very difficult.
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The most important part is that you never drink again.
Read that again.
If you started doing that, never drinking, you would be done.
But the title of your post is: "I can't do this again." That indicates a struggle. A struggle where there is none. Except in your mind.
Quit. Period.
I'm day two also, and feel like I'm shriveling up. I'm hearing a train horn in my left ear and Joey Diaz in the other.
Going to eat a chicken pot pie, drink a sprite, and drink water in bed all night 'till it feels better in the morning. Today was productive. Evening doesn't feel good for a while. It'll pass.
Going to eat a chicken pot pie, drink a sprite, and drink water in bed all night 'till it feels better in the morning. Today was productive. Evening doesn't feel good for a while. It'll pass.
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