Day 4 - Severe Anxiety
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Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Boston MA
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Have a great day today! I love when I start my day with a meeting.
Keep posting would love to follow how you are doing.
Maybe start a new thread moderate or mild anxiety? Since you are feeling better a day at a time.
Keep posting would love to follow how you are doing.
Maybe start a new thread moderate or mild anxiety? Since you are feeling better a day at a time.
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Join Date: Oct 2018
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Originally Posted by Auchieshuggle 
I am over 72 hours into sobriety and I am also feeling anxious. I am frightened to leave the house, in fact. You're not alone.
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Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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Originally Posted by OJ12
It will get better Auchie I promise you that, small steps one day at a time. Try and stay as positive as you can and push yourself outside of your comfort zone to do things your head tells you you can’t and you will star to feel better and more positive. You’ve got to tackle anxiety head on sometimes, it’s awful and goes against everything you want to do but it helps a lot. I can also recommend doing some exercise, lightly at first but it helps burn away the nervous energy and releases those feel good hormones and will also help you sleep better. Remember there is always light at the end of the tunnel, you just have to make some positive changes and you will be on the road to feeling better
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Soberville, USA
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Originally Posted by Sohard
1. A doctor wasn’t the SR answer, it was my answer. An informed, empathetic person. Not a website.
2. “at least” you are “anti whatever free?” Who gives a fig? Stop stigmatizing medication.
3. For a lot of people, losing their job is nothing in comparison to losing their lives.
Stop talking about something you do not understand or have an education in. The original poster did not ask you your uninformed thoughts and opinions on medication. ��
Appreciate the feedback. It hurt but maybe I needed that. Ouchy.
But, I still want to help folks know they should not just start taking any medication that makes them feel better willy nilly.
Sometimes suffering might be worth it.
My experience only.
The sr answer is see a dr.
I don't know what kind of hell anyone but myself went through.
My hell was deep and dark, curl up in a ball and cry, insanity, ptsd kind of stuff. I use the ptsd to never drink again. God help me.
Thanks.
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
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Originally Posted by Sohard
1. A doctor wasn’t the SR answer, it was my answer. An informed, empathetic person. Not a website.
2. “at least” you are “anti whatever free?” Who gives a fig? Stop stigmatizing medication.
3. For a lot of people, losing their job is nothing in comparison to losing their lives.
Stop talking about something you do not understand or have an education in. The original poster did not ask you your uninformed thoughts and opinions on medication. 🙄
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Join Date: Aug 2016
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Yes - sometimes I get random severe chlostrophobia, insomnia, and anxiety all at the same time when I'm withdrawing (at night is the insomnia). It scares the heck out of me. It's like a feeling of ultimate impending doom.
Alcohol is no bueno for some people.
Alcohol is no bueno for some people.
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Join Date: Oct 2018
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Hi guys, been a bit busy the last couple of days so haven’t posted but things are still positive. Life has returned to relative normality, work and dealing with a young family whilst trying to fit my meetings in and working my programme. I must remember when I’m preoccupied with other things not to forget about my illness as that’s when it sneaks up on me when I’m least expecting it. All in all things are good right now, I’m not sure how many days as I don’t really count, I like to keep it to a day at a time. Like an old friend constantly reminds me, the most sober person today is the the one that got out of bed first! For anyone struggling, push yourself outside your comfort zone and learn to love yourself, those two things alone will help immensely. It’s a learning process for us all, and a journey that will continue till the day we die but the more effort we put in the more we get out. X
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