Look at me now!
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Look at me now!
This is a post I made on Day 2:
"This is my main hope...to achieve mental stability. I've become so paranoid in the past 6 months like wtf!! It's like I don't know who I am anymore and I worry all the time."
Today is day 222. I'm not paranoid anymore. I still worry sometimes but it's at a normal level and I can deal with things so effectively now.
If you're new to sobriety and think you have to drink to kill emotional pain, consider that the drinking is actually causing much of the pain you are trying to extinguish (with alcohol). On day 2, I had hope this would be the case. On day 222, I know it to be true.
I did it one day at a time but lately the time is just flying by me because i'm no longer stuck in that horrible cycle of alcoholism. Oh the energy it took to keep that cycle going was insane!
Counting my blessings today and especially grateful for SR. Even as a loner type person, I feel accepted here. You are my people!
"This is my main hope...to achieve mental stability. I've become so paranoid in the past 6 months like wtf!! It's like I don't know who I am anymore and I worry all the time."
Today is day 222. I'm not paranoid anymore. I still worry sometimes but it's at a normal level and I can deal with things so effectively now.
If you're new to sobriety and think you have to drink to kill emotional pain, consider that the drinking is actually causing much of the pain you are trying to extinguish (with alcohol). On day 2, I had hope this would be the case. On day 222, I know it to be true.
I did it one day at a time but lately the time is just flying by me because i'm no longer stuck in that horrible cycle of alcoholism. Oh the energy it took to keep that cycle going was insane!
Counting my blessings today and especially grateful for SR. Even as a loner type person, I feel accepted here. You are my people!
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Originally Posted by Sober45 
This is a post I made on Day 2:
"This is my main hope...to achieve mental stability. I've become so paranoid in the past 6 months like wtf!! It's like I don't know who I am anymore and I worry all the time."
Today is day 222. I'm not paranoid anymore. I still worry sometimes but it's at a normal level and I can deal with things so effectively now.
If you're new to sobriety and think you have to drink to kill emotional pain, consider that the drinking is actually causing much of the pain you are trying to extinguish (with alcohol). On day 2, I had hope this would be the case. On day 222, I know it to be true.
I did it one day at a time but lately the time is just flying by me because i'm no longer stuck in that horrible cycle of alcoholism. Oh the energy it took to keep that cycle going was insane!
Counting my blessings today and especially grateful for SR. Even as a loner type person, I feel accepted here. You are my people!
"This is my main hope...to achieve mental stability. I've become so paranoid in the past 6 months like wtf!! It's like I don't know who I am anymore and I worry all the time."
Today is day 222. I'm not paranoid anymore. I still worry sometimes but it's at a normal level and I can deal with things so effectively now.
If you're new to sobriety and think you have to drink to kill emotional pain, consider that the drinking is actually causing much of the pain you are trying to extinguish (with alcohol). On day 2, I had hope this would be the case. On day 222, I know it to be true.
I did it one day at a time but lately the time is just flying by me because i'm no longer stuck in that horrible cycle of alcoholism. Oh the energy it took to keep that cycle going was insane!
Counting my blessings today and especially grateful for SR. Even as a loner type person, I feel accepted here. You are my people!
And your message of hope is wonderful. Member
Join Date: May 2020
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Love the positivity in this post. Absolutely brilliant and s reminder to myself and everyone that things can/ will get better if you work at it.
I'm at 174 days and can notice the changes.
My mental stability has returned and I feel much better in myself .
Please regularly posting Sober45. I love the message you are sending.
I'm at 174 days and can notice the changes.
My mental stability has returned and I feel much better in myself .
Please regularly posting Sober45. I love the message you are sending.
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Love this post Sober45. I was so compromised and destroyed, early sobriety was easy for me. The daily rewards of sobriety were self evident. But as the months have passed, I feel like I escaped the spiral by the skin of my teeth, and now I can look at that part of my life with gratitude and understanding. I still see the spiral and feel it sometimes but it now is like a tornado heading away from me. I'm so happy for you and all of us, Day 1 to Day 10,000 or hoping to get Day 1 soon.
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Really good post...its so daunting in the first few days or couple of weeks in sobriety when you are in a "funk" from coming out of the fog...it feels like you are never going to be ok or anywhere near "normal"...I'm happy for you that the "sobriety thing" is working...you have been blessed....
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