3 days sober
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3 days sober
Hi
I've posted here before. I went to a detox centre in January 2018 and was sober 30 days but still didn't think I had a problem and thought I could moderate 14 months later after several relapses I've finally realised I have a problem. I've been sober three days and the anxiety I've experienced has been very challenging. I looked up alcohol withdrawal on Wikipedia and realised I had most of the symptoms including sweating and nausea and of course anxiety
I'm also aware of kindling and realised that even if I had a small amount of alcohol it could be worse everytime I quit.
I bought 4 cans of cider earlier and put them in my fridge but after doing my research, I have just poured them down the sink.
Here's to a sober life!
I've posted here before. I went to a detox centre in January 2018 and was sober 30 days but still didn't think I had a problem and thought I could moderate 14 months later after several relapses I've finally realised I have a problem. I've been sober three days and the anxiety I've experienced has been very challenging. I looked up alcohol withdrawal on Wikipedia and realised I had most of the symptoms including sweating and nausea and of course anxiety
I'm also aware of kindling and realised that even if I had a small amount of alcohol it could be worse everytime I quit.
I bought 4 cans of cider earlier and put them in my fridge but after doing my research, I have just poured them down the sink.
Here's to a sober life!
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Hello and welcome back.
Good job on pouring out the alcohol. In the long run, they'd only worsen your anxiety and other symptoms. As you well know.
Congratulations on three days. And remember, you never have to drink or go through the withdrawal symptoms again.
Best to you in sobriety.
Good job on pouring out the alcohol. In the long run, they'd only worsen your anxiety and other symptoms. As you well know.
Congratulations on three days. And remember, you never have to drink or go through the withdrawal symptoms again.
Best to you in sobriety.
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Congratulations on 3 days and pouring the cider down the sink. I can not advocate enough for going to the doctor and telling them the truth, there's lots of help available for the anxiety, you don't have to white knuckle! I'm a few hours behind you and this has been my easiest detox yet because I have help with the anxiety. You can do this!
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I want to share something that I had just read last night out of the AA Big Book.
This is on page 33 Chapter 3 called More About Alcoholism:
Most of us have believed that if we remained sober for a long stretch, we could thereafter drink normally. But here is a man who at fifty-five years found he was just where he had left off at thirty. We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: "Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic." Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol.
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I have thought the same way as every other addict. That I can return after I have had some clean time. Every time that I relapse I leave off from where I was before I quit the last time. I have had reservations left for psychedelics because I felt like I never abused them. I think that if I do them after years of sobriety that I will open up the door to start using my drug of choice again habitually. I have cancelled these reservations. I will not even smoke bud even though it is legal here because I have mixed it with every other drug known to man. It will link the use of pot to the use of other harder drugs that are not good for me. I hope that this helps you out a bit. I am not trying to lecture you or anything like that. I am just trying to show you what I have learned from reading the book.
This is on page 33 Chapter 3 called More About Alcoholism:
Most of us have believed that if we remained sober for a long stretch, we could thereafter drink normally. But here is a man who at fifty-five years found he was just where he had left off at thirty. We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: "Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic." Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol.
Linked with the permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
I have thought the same way as every other addict. That I can return after I have had some clean time. Every time that I relapse I leave off from where I was before I quit the last time. I have had reservations left for psychedelics because I felt like I never abused them. I think that if I do them after years of sobriety that I will open up the door to start using my drug of choice again habitually. I have cancelled these reservations. I will not even smoke bud even though it is legal here because I have mixed it with every other drug known to man. It will link the use of pot to the use of other harder drugs that are not good for me. I hope that this helps you out a bit. I am not trying to lecture you or anything like that. I am just trying to show you what I have learned from reading the book.
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