Mentium

Well it is turning out to be not a good day today. Everything I touch seems to turn to worms (to use a Brit expression), even walking past a coffee table, ends up with something being knocked off it! Burnt my hand on something out of the microwave, spilled hot water all over the kitchen..and I feel irritable and annoyed with almost everything.

I'm only just under three weeks in, so I'm not expecting miracles, so I'm putting this down to 'readjustment'..or else I'm just having a crap day of course.

Some home made soup under my belt now (what I burnt my fingers on) and the gym when I have digested that I think – then a meeting tonight.

I may be feeling a bit off but I am reminding myself regularly how far 'off' I was feeling just before I quit almost three weeks ago now. There's no comparison really!

August252015

Some days just kinda stink. Or we feel like everything we touch or do is just...wrong. I had to learn to be ok with it, try to laugh and often- use my Put Myself To Bed Early technique. Get to tomorrow.

Normal people hand normal good and bads better than we do - with time (I am 342 days sober today) everything from my coordination (much less dropping or knocking things over) to my emotional stability have kept improving. When I get upset or frustrated, I handle it better and more quickly.

Hang in there. Today is here, right? Make it a great sober day.

Ariesagain

You're doing really well. Three weeks is kind of a crossroads where the alcohol has cleared out but your body and brain are still looking around going, "what just happened?" I was a menace with the brain fog. I put a spatula in my husband's sock drawer (clean, but still) and I put four loaves of bread in the oven...and forgot about them. Completely. To the extent that I wandered into the kitchen later and decided I had just left the oven on for some reason...and turned it off. Bye bread.

It gets better. Just be gentle with yourself.

Mentium

I even posted this in the wrong sub forum...I think. Doh..

Thanks guys anyhow. : )

Upstairs

You didn't notice your off day is a Monday? Anyways, great job on three weeks!

Mountainmanbob

Especially in my early sobriety times, when I felt a little out of it, if I could I would hit the couch for some rest.

Actually, even after 9 years I still enjoy my naps.

I always tell myself,
as long as I'm not drinking, then it's ok.

M-Bob

MLD51

Off days happen. I am also a fan of putting myself to bed early when I seem to be having a day when everything I touch "turns to worms." I love that phrase, I'm stealing it!

Early on your brain is still healing - it will be for a while. Be gentle with yourself. I had to stop telling myself I'm an idiot when I made little physical or mental blunders in the early days (even now) because I was getting over a very bad illness and it was to be expected for a while. That's how I thought of it.

Doug39

Its that whenever I have a really good day, it is followed by a few bad days.

It makes me almost not want really good days!!

daisy1

Me too, I just dropped a load of yoghurt all over the carpet and my dogs won't even clear it up for me (and they eat each other's sick). Bleurghh. But if I was drunk I would have shouted at the yoghurt and the carpet and blamed my ex somehow.

Della1968

january161992

great job on nearly 3 weeks

glad youre going to the gym

exercise is super important for me

ChloeRose63

My "off" days also include the 'mind-set' that everything is "no fun" or "what's the purpose...I will only have to do that chore all over again the next day"...uggg I hate those days!

Mentium

Went to the gym and feel a lot better. Just knackered now!

Kimmy2002

Glad your feeling better Mentium. X

Dee74

I'm glad I have off days now and not off weeks or months
Hope tomorrow is better for you Mentium

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ElianL

Mentium please a northern england phrase, you had me a southerner looking this up for ages! Hope you doing ok.