Peoples experiences - weeks 6/7 feeling uneasy
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Peoples experiences - weeks 6/7 feeling uneasy
Hi everyone
I'm six and a bit weeks sober. This week I've felt really uneasy/anxious a lot of the time. My therapist advised me to start a worry diary to concentrate on those feelings twice a day, which I'm doing.
However, despite corona and my life situation I don't have a lot to write at these times. It's more a general underlying sense of unease that I feel in the pit of my stomach like the butterflies of nervousness. I feel it pretty often (all the time?). I wonder whether this is common in early sobriety at about my stage?
I'm six and a bit weeks sober. This week I've felt really uneasy/anxious a lot of the time. My therapist advised me to start a worry diary to concentrate on those feelings twice a day, which I'm doing.
However, despite corona and my life situation I don't have a lot to write at these times. It's more a general underlying sense of unease that I feel in the pit of my stomach like the butterflies of nervousness. I feel it pretty often (all the time?). I wonder whether this is common in early sobriety at about my stage?
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I can;t recall feeling specially unsettled at week 6/7 but ...you've got a lot to be uncertain and unsettled about Be.
Maybe its a normal reasonable and understandable reaction to your worries about the virus, your marriage and your recovery?
D
Maybe its a normal reasonable and understandable reaction to your worries about the virus, your marriage and your recovery?
D
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I dunno but you're in your first 90 days so if this is your first time this far in recovery then everything's gonna feel weird and new even without a lockdown, so just try and go easy on yourself, and live in the moment as much as you can.
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I think the uncertainty of everything has the entire world on edge. I imagine it must be even harder for people who are used to being in control of things with clear-cut goals and plans.
It's all out the window now. A good friend of mine was a regional manager for a restaurant chain. Got married, bought a house, and had two little girls all within the past 5 years. He is laid off indefinitely with no salary. Job will likely not be there even when things normalize. He's using credit cards to pay for things now...
I remember you saying you are going through a divorce. I can't imagine how you are dealing with that and this pandemic. We will all come out stronger in the end!
It's all out the window now. A good friend of mine was a regional manager for a restaurant chain. Got married, bought a house, and had two little girls all within the past 5 years. He is laid off indefinitely with no salary. Job will likely not be there even when things normalize. He's using credit cards to pay for things now...
I remember you saying you are going through a divorce. I can't imagine how you are dealing with that and this pandemic. We will all come out stronger in the end!
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Originally Posted by Be123 
Hi everyone
I'm six and a bit weeks sober. This week I've felt really uneasy/anxious a lot of the time. My therapist advised me to start a worry diary to concentrate on those feelings twice a day, which I'm doing.
However, despite corona and my life situation I don't have a lot to write at these times. It's more a general underlying sense of unease that I feel in the pit of my stomach like the butterflies of nervousness. I feel it pretty often (all the time?). I wonder whether this is common in early sobriety at about my stage?
I'm six and a bit weeks sober. This week I've felt really uneasy/anxious a lot of the time. My therapist advised me to start a worry diary to concentrate on those feelings twice a day, which I'm doing.
However, despite corona and my life situation I don't have a lot to write at these times. It's more a general underlying sense of unease that I feel in the pit of my stomach like the butterflies of nervousness. I feel it pretty often (all the time?). I wonder whether this is common in early sobriety at about my stage?
I have occasional bouts of mild unease like karma that is going to bite me. I wonder about it and think, "I wonder what this is about." If I don't know, I let it pass. I think much of it is just me bothering myself. It passes and then I'm OK.
I used to root these things out like I was on a mission, but as I get older, I only deal with things that are causing me a more profound level of distraction.
BUT feeling unease, is probably a clue that something is afoot, and writing ideas down become things you can explore with your therapist, even if those things seem kind of absurd (they may or may not be absurd). I used to bring my journal of the last week with me to therapy. My counselor didn't read it, but I would scan through my journal and bring up things that I felt might lead to something deeper.
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Always complicating things for me as I get more sobriety is underlying anxiety and depression which I've had as far back as I can remember. Do you think you might have underlying anxiety, even if it's mild?
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Thanks for your replies
Sugar bear - because of my life situation and c19 basically EVERYTHING I do is part of my recovery. When I wake up; what I eat; exercise; journaling; time with family. Coronavirus is awful but ironically for me it's very helpful as I can focus on myself and my recovery. I see a therapist once a week and work on myself daily; I am working through SMART materials. I've even reached out to friends with my drink problem, a very unusual step for me as I'm usually very private. I find I like speaking to people about the crap in my head (who'd have known!!).
As for ongoing anxiety - it's very possible. I've been depressed a long time, I can feel that lifting the longer I don't drink but am ready to seek medical support if I find myself with MH issues that the drinking has been hiding. The booze obviously caused some of my MH issues, but maybe also started as self medication
Sugar bear - because of my life situation and c19 basically EVERYTHING I do is part of my recovery. When I wake up; what I eat; exercise; journaling; time with family. Coronavirus is awful but ironically for me it's very helpful as I can focus on myself and my recovery. I see a therapist once a week and work on myself daily; I am working through SMART materials. I've even reached out to friends with my drink problem, a very unusual step for me as I'm usually very private. I find I like speaking to people about the crap in my head (who'd have known!!).
As for ongoing anxiety - it's very possible. I've been depressed a long time, I can feel that lifting the longer I don't drink but am ready to seek medical support if I find myself with MH issues that the drinking has been hiding. The booze obviously caused some of my MH issues, but maybe also started as self medication
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I had generalized anxiety since my teens so I have tried to find ways to cope. Belly-breathing is simple, but very effective.ake deep breaths. Inhale and exhale slowly. Sit comfortably with shoulders, head and neck relaxed. Breath in slowly through your nose so that your stomach expands. Tighten stomach muscles, letting them fall inward as you exhale slowly through your mouth.
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