isinganyway

I miss drinking and using. What do I do?

Lenina

Acknowlege the grief and move forward! see if you can change your regular schedule for while. Post and read here and much as you can!

Something that helped me was making a gratitude list of the 10 things I was most grateful for. I had been quite the ingrate so I had to learn gratitude!

love from Lenina

doggonecarl

Are you doing something enjoyable or constructive with your time? Or are you just sitting around feeling you are missing out?

You are young, and I think quitting at your age has it's own set of challenges that I, at 55, might not be able to help you with. I can only suggest this--don't mistake drinking and drugging as an activity.

Xune

You don't drink or use.

If I drink, it will destroy my life and slowly kill me. Drinking is no longer an option.

Is your addiction any different?

Find things that you enjoy doing, clubs, sports, activities, hobbies etc...

Read books.

I highly recommend a fitness program. Get yourself into kick ass hardcore shape!

catmilkyo

and if you were drinking and using you'd miss sobriety :P

ask yourself what it is you're missing about drinking and using. what feelings or experiences? for me there is usually something i got from drinking and drugging that i miss and not the actual drinking and drugging - ie, camaraderie, relaxation, excitement.

when i figure out what it is i'm really missing, then i can find alternate ways of going about attaining it. . . and the desire to use subsides.

freshstart57

1 hour spent drunk or wasted is 60 whole minutes that you have lost being sober. I'm jus saying.

eyespy

I can relate to that statement, and that feeling...I have had similar feelings recently...I miss the social side of what drinking/drugging use to bring..the sitting around talking ****..solving world peace that often went with it. I use to really enjoy that lifestyle..before the drug of my choice starting becoming a rod for my own back.

I only recently realised I can sit with others who don't want to get wasted/drunk, or those in my recovery group..and we talk for hours about allsorts of things...and I don't have a hangover afterwards, have not had days of no sleep and broke...and ****** up afterwards...

I also remember a time not so long ago (only recently been drug free) that I thought that is all I wanted to do, then about an hour after I used..I remember all the yucky negative things about this drug...and why I don't like it. The good times are memories, and some really good ones..but not like that now...I hang on to that negative feeling now as its keeps me straight !!

mecanix

Find those things in life that increase your wonder at the world, forfill you spiritually and do them , do them a lot .

M

Boleo

Abstinence is not drinking and feeling bad about it.

Recovery is not drinking and feeling good about it.

I used to use booze to feel good about not dealing with life.

Now I use life to feel good about not dealing with booze.