Tough Day
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Tough Day
Just posting to keep myself on track. It's only day 9 for me but the urge to grab a 6 pack and a bottle of wine to go with dinner is strong today.
It's 4:30 and I usually leave work at 5, stopping at the package store by 5:30. 2 beers on the way home, a few more when I get there, then the bottle of wine while cooking and eating dinner.
Not sure where I'm going with this other than trying to occupy myself..
It's 4:30 and I usually leave work at 5, stopping at the package store by 5:30. 2 beers on the way home, a few more when I get there, then the bottle of wine while cooking and eating dinner.
Not sure where I'm going with this other than trying to occupy myself..
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One of the things that really helped me in the very beginning was to take the option of drinking completely off the table, meaning that I shut my thoughts off as soon as they started to drift into anything resembling a bad idea. It's so weird, because I even said "NO" out loud to try to associate drinking with negativity, and tried to conjure up some of my worst drinking memories whenever my thoughts threatened to become romantic. Thoughts aren't mandates, we don't have to act on them. Think of the other things you can do, like cook dinner and clean it up without becoming a mess, go to bed super early, and wake up having clocked another sober day. Know that it will get MUCH easier if you give it time. 
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Join Date: Mar 2018
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Also day 9. My symptoms are easing up and yet I also feel the itch. Just a few days ago I was laid out on the couch for 36 hours with depression, anxiety and a brain fog beyond belief and still my AV is strong. Call it out for what it is...an alter ego bent on your destruction. Hang in there
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