RE: Substance Abuse Recovery Thread
February 15, 2017 at 4:52 pm
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2017 at 5:05 pm by Crossless2.0.)
(February 15, 2017 at 4:22 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(February 15, 2017 at 4:10 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: Day 108 for me. I don't miss it.
Keep being strong, my friend.
I'm impressed how strong you guys are.
I can't even give up sugary drinks...
When I first started recovery, I couldn't keep my hands off the sweets, and getting clean right after Halloween just meant that I had ready access to all the candy I could want. It was disgusting how much of that shit I was eating. I didn't really put two and two together at first, but eventually I compared notes with other addicts in the program and found that we were all short-term sugar fiends, trying to get our dopamine spikes any way we could.
Now it's Mardi Gras season, and there's a fucking King Cake delivered to our office almost every day. I can hardly look at them now. Lent can't come soon enough for this atheist.
In fact, I'm so over the sugar and processed food thing that I went soft-core vegetarian about two weeks ago (i.e., eggs, dairy, and fish are still on the menu). Now my problem isn't drug use or binging and crashing on sugar: it's giving birth each damn morning. Even the dogs look alarmed after my second cup of coffee. They know.
(February 15, 2017 at 4:00 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Yeah, I had a drinking dream last week, where I was on the phone to my gal, and she could tell I had been drinking, and I was busy denying it. Waking up with that feeling of shame ...
I've had a few coke dreams in which I can taste it. I wake up feeling a bit unsettled for a minute or so.
