Clarification of "sober"?
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Join Date: Nov 2018
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August - for myself, I only worry about caffeine or sugar if I become addicted. I can take or leave caffeine. I consume it if I have a Pepsi. If I don't have caffeine I don't worry about it.
Sugar is a different story. If I don't have sugar in the house I will go to the store for no other reason than to buy ice cream or chocolate. I have high triglycerides and should not be doing this because it negatively impacts my health, yet I do anyway. That being said, I still say I am sober since quitting alcohol.
Sugar is a different story. If I don't have sugar in the house I will go to the store for no other reason than to buy ice cream or chocolate. I have high triglycerides and should not be doing this because it negatively impacts my health, yet I do anyway. That being said, I still say I am sober since quitting alcohol.
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: NYC
Posts: 19,047
The void I used alcohol to fill just got greater and greater between drinks. Replacement (with drugs, sex, whatever) doesn't work because it's the addiction cycle itself that creates and defines the void.
Eliminate the cycle and there is no void, just a lot of ordinary fears that are scary, yes -- but you can deal with them.
Eliminate the cycle and there is no void, just a lot of ordinary fears that are scary, yes -- but you can deal with them.
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 8,637
I used alcohol increasingly to ‘fill a void’ - but a lot of that void was actually put there by alcohol. Awful cycle.
I was sober (no drugs or alcohol) for two years when I made the decision to try an SSRI. Not to fill a void, but to help with a seratonin imbalance that left me dealing with depression particularly in winter month. It helped a lot. I don’t view that as not being sober because a medication supervised by a doctor and monitored and carefully dosed to address an actual and long-standing state of challenge to my mental health is different than downing sleeping pills and weed.
in my case, medication helped me do even better in my whole sobriety. It became a positive tool to support my living my best sober life.
I was sober (no drugs or alcohol) for two years when I made the decision to try an SSRI. Not to fill a void, but to help with a seratonin imbalance that left me dealing with depression particularly in winter month. It helped a lot. I don’t view that as not being sober because a medication supervised by a doctor and monitored and carefully dosed to address an actual and long-standing state of challenge to my mental health is different than downing sleeping pills and weed.
in my case, medication helped me do even better in my whole sobriety. It became a positive tool to support my living my best sober life.
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