# Checking in daily to maintain focus #32
**URL:** https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231
**Category:** Life in Recovery
**Created:** [July 25, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231 "2021-07-25T14:40:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 106
### Author:  [@Singtone](https://talkingsober.com/u/Singtone)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 12:00pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2481 "2021-08-25T12:00:08Z")
You seem to be having stress dreams, Charlie. Is there something troubling you? Being implicated in a murder is a classic stress dream.
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### Author:  [@Rockstar24777](https://talkingsober.com/u/Rockstar24777)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 12:02pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2482 "2021-08-25T12:02:11Z")
Good job sis that’s awesome for you to reach out to the doctors, you’re going to kick this in the ass!!! Proud of you always!!! 🕶🤘🏻
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### Author:  [@Nordique](https://talkingsober.com/u/Nordique)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 12:21pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2483 "2021-08-25T12:21:41Z")
Hey all, checking in on day 437. Happy to be here with you guys for another day. Have a great one guys.
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### Author:  [@Singtone](https://talkingsober.com/u/Singtone)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 12:26pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2484 "2021-08-25T12:26:28Z")
Checking in at the end of day 234.
Have a great sober day, wherever you are.
Goodnight. 💤😴
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### Author:  [@Tim904](https://talkingsober.com/u/Tim904)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 12:36pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2485 "2021-08-25T12:36:33Z")
Love the flower tattoo. Reminds me of some wildflowers I’m growing right now
Both my parents have passed. My Dad loved yellow roses, my mom wildflowers. Trying to think of a design incorporating the two to tattoo as an homage.
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### Author:  [@Mbwoman](https://talkingsober.com/u/Mbwoman)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 12:39pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2486 "2021-08-25T12:39:54Z")
Day 173! 6:30 a.m. post workout. A hangover would really ruin this lovely morning. Well, with a hangover I would not have been up this early to see the beautiful sunrise. And certainly not working out! 😆
(Sober) Life is good!
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### Author:  [@050Nl](https://talkingsober.com/u/050Nl)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2487 "2021-08-25T12:50:59Z")
Now to get the scnd one that far as wel
Going to hospital now for last news and hope to get to know when I get operated.
Curious about the scan results but the day is so far, so good
Bless
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### Author:  [@Dolse71](https://talkingsober.com/u/Dolse71)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 1:01pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2488 "2021-08-25T13:01:29Z")
> [@Squirt](#):
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> Right now I just feel like my needs are unimportant and I don’t matter.
The baby,
Imagine yourself as a baby. You would look at that baby and think they lacked nothing. That baby came complete. Their value was innate from their first breath. Their value did not depend on external things like wealth or appearance or politics or popularity. It was the infinite value of a human life. And that value stays with us, even as it becomes easier to forget it. We stay precisely as alive and precisely as human as we were the day we were born. The only thing we need is to exist. And to hope.
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### Author:  [@Squirt](https://talkingsober.com/u/Squirt)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 2:15pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2490 "2021-08-25T14:15:29Z")
435 days & still struggling. I feel like I’m in my 1st week of sobriety or something. I can’t sleep, my appetite is nearly non-existent, I lack any form of motivation, my thoughts are clouded and maintaining focus is difficult. I just want to curl up in a ball, cry my eyes out and disappear from the world. Something has got to give or I’m going to crack. Thoughts of impending doom are difficult to keep at bay. It’s not just the living situation that feels this way: right now it’s everything.
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### Author:  [@anon10035965](https://talkingsober.com/u/anon10035965)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2491 "2021-08-25T14:22:04Z")
Yes that flower looks like the one on my tattoo! It’s lovely to create a tattoo to cherish your parents. My mom passed away 16 years ago and I have a star on my wrist for her.
Good luck with finding a good design!
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### Author:  [@Wakikki](https://talkingsober.com/u/Wakikki)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 2:29pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2492 "2021-08-25T14:29:34Z")
Checking in. Had my 2nd shot Covid vaccine today. Hope I dont going to feel bad… Soon of to pta meeting for my fresh 13year old.
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### Author:  [@TMAC](https://talkingsober.com/u/TMAC)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2493 "2021-08-25T15:27:54Z")
D 1,173
I have written previously about my experiences having ADHD, undiagnosed until age 28, and its ties to my history of substance abuse and addiction.
I stumbled across this study/article this morning from U of Toronto // Oxford University, which I found interesting and thought it may offer insight to some here. (This is the link to the U of Toronto write-up. The source study from Oxford is cited at the end w/ link).
> **[Half of adults with ADHD have had a substance use disorder](https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/924775)**
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> Half of adults aged 20-39 with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have had a substance use disorder (SUD) in their lifetime according to new research published online ahead of print this month in Alcohol and Alcoholism. This is markedly...
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### Author:  [@050Nl](https://talkingsober.com/u/050Nl)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2494 "2021-08-25T15:47:29Z")
Upright fucked in the bum…
Check out ! No worries
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### Author:  [@Stormy](https://talkingsober.com/u/Stormy)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2495 "2021-08-25T16:21:58Z")
11.5 days sober! Feeling strong 😃
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### Author:  [@Tim904](https://talkingsober.com/u/Tim904)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2496 "2021-08-25T16:26:28Z")
Had a difficult time sleeping last night. The dreams seem to be getting more and more vivid.
It’s a shame cos waking up (or sleeping at all) is a huge bonus to sobriety and these dreams/nightmares seem to be taking that away.
Still, woke up focused and on time. Ate good. Gym now. One day at a time
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### Author:  [@Dan531](https://talkingsober.com/u/Dan531)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2497 "2021-08-25T16:29:06Z")
Congrats on 7 hundo!
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### Author:  [@Lucky1620](https://talkingsober.com/u/Lucky1620)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2498 "2021-08-25T17:20:42Z")
Mid day check in…all going well and feeling stable. And sober and healthy. Which is beautiful. 👍🙏💓
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### Author:  [@CATMANCAM](https://talkingsober.com/u/CATMANCAM)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2499 "2021-08-25T19:21:41Z")
@Stormy haha nothing if you ask me! But I’m trying my best to avoid being targeted by bullies again when I’m brave enough to go back.
@Dolse71 it’s hard when you first start doing longer shifts, but in the past I’ve found I did adjust pretty quickly, so you might find you need the sugar hit less and less 🤞🏻🙏🏻 though I can’t say the same re energy drinksz they were yet another previous addiction of mine 🙄
@Squirt sending strength 💙 I really hope the counselling can help 🙏🏻🤞🏻
@Mbwoman stunning photo 😍
@050Nl congrats on 700 days of freedom from cocaine 🎉 good luck at the hospital 🍀
380 days no alcohol.
348 days no cocaine.
2 days no binge-eating.
Today has been hard, I have been awake since 1am, couldn’t get back to sleep at all. I used to suffer every night with insomnia so I’m grateful it’s not so often now. I spent an hour on the first ever meme thread, then listened to the entire audiobook I bought last night! It was a good listen. I have had many urges to binge today and the supermarket is open for another 3hrs 45mins, so I’m not safe yet but I just haven’t got the energy to go as I’m so tired from no sleep. I hate having these urges and it’s making me sad because I know the first week of being on the diet is going to be hell, but I need to do it, I am so desperately unhappy with the way I look and feel, and after the first week, it does usually become easier.
I am also feeling very hopeful. At my recent appointment with a Podiatrist, she told me about a treatment that isn’t available on the NHS, I spent some of my time last night doing research, and I found a consultant at my local private hospital, that offers the treatment, it will cost around £800 altogether, which is what I was going to pay for that electric wheelchair, but instead, I will regain my mobility and hopefully be in less pain! It makes me very emotional thinking of a chance at life without this pain, I try not to go on about it too much but it honestly does get me so down all the time.
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### Author:  [@icebear](https://talkingsober.com/u/icebear)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2500 "2021-08-25T20:06:57Z")
75 days alcohol free, but I also managed to catch this one today:
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### Author:  [@Tim904](https://talkingsober.com/u/Tim904)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/checking-in-daily-to-maintain-focus-32/123231/2502 "2021-08-25T20:29:11Z")
Being able to check off all of those is a clear joy of sobriety. Happy day, @Soundlab
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