taylorjezz

Hi,

I'm new to this site and came across it quite by accident. The posts seem really helpful. I am a single guy that works and lives at home and to be honest these four walls (4 days sober) are closing in fast. I know I need to get out but it seems so daunting and the anxiety is currently crippling. Finding it hard to sleep and eat. My folks don't talk to me anymore and just lost a good long term friend (who knows all our other friends so will seek their alliance) to my most recent horrible binge. No one responds to texts no matter how nice they are.

Jack16

Welcome to the site. A big community of very nice people here. Keep posting and reading and you will definitely feel less alone. Could try the chat room too.

And maybe try taking baby steps in terms of going out. If you start looking, there are loads of activities you can try. Even just getting out the house, and into a cafe with a book, is good. At least there is stuff going on, and people around. I know if I stay at home for long, I go stir crazy. Good luck, don;t drink, it'll all get better

PhoenixJ

WELCOME. The only way to get over drinking alone, isolating is to do stuff. See a counsellor, go to meetings. Post here.
Support to you

D122y

Yep...the booze fries our brains. It is slow and insidious.

Getting through the crazy feelings when we quit takes a long long long time.

I'm nearly 2 years sober and I still get waves of frustration that I used to drink to numb.

Now I deal w those issues clean and they dissappear after a while and I feel great for managing them clean.

I post here to get them off my chest.

It is nice to talk to someone f2f, but it is tough sometimes. Our feelings are often too weird or private to offer in a f2f format.

Stay clean. I was a drunk my whole life. I leave the regrets in the past.

Sobriety is where we all truly belong. Don't believe the hype.

Scruffanie

Welcome Taylor. This is a great place for support. Post whenever you need to and read around.

Isolation was my enemy in the earlier days so I spent a lot of time at AA meetings, even though my anxiety was high and I felt like a zombie. I still do meetings regularly.

I hope you'll stick around here

taylorjezz

Thank you very much for the suggestions and ideas/support.

I will certainly get out and had a much better day today. I had to get out for a meeting and used that momentum to go other places on the way home so that helped.

Thanks again.

Dee74

Hi Taylorjezz
I'm glad you have plans to get out

I worked at home for a decade or so, lived alone.

For the last several years of that decade my world was my room to bottle shop and back to room again.

I never thought I could ever get sober in that house but I did.

I have faith and hope that you can too

Welcome

D