Checking in daily to maintain focus #53

Day 50,

Really getting into the swing of things here. Love being sober and I’m never looking back.

Wishing you all the best!
Djibril

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Day 201 alcohol free
Day 9 social media free

I learned that a frequent abuse of social media can increase anxiety. Now I understand why my anxiety kept on getting worse and worse in the last months.
I’m sure it’s not the main reason but it definitely doesn’t make anxiety better.
Crazy, because watching the videos felt relaxing.
I needed melatonin to fall asleep, now I fall asleep without it. And I sleep a lot better.
My coworker has the same problem, she sleeps bad. I suggested to stop TikTok and Instagram for a while. If she tries it is upon her.
Today I have no cravings for TikTok :muscle::blush: Yay! Feels good to have the control back.
Now off to get something yummy to munch and then home :blush:
Have a beautiful sober day friends, stay strong :kissing_heart::muscle:

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Checking in on Day 431

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The social media cleanse is so underrated! I’m at day 50 of no social media as well and it feels good not to sink all of my time into an app where I’m constantly comparing myself to other people.

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I hate social media and lucky for me i dont have a vpn here in china

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Yes! Comparing to others is a thing. Even if we tell ourself that we don’t do it…in the end we do, if we want it or not. In some peoples heads this turns into the feeling of not being enough. Not being pretty enough, rich enough, smart enough, creative enough, the list is long. And that is concerning.

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Fantastic!!

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Still day 73…sober. I cant get moving. Need to get to pharmacy. Theze past couple months i have felt like a firefly. I seem to have fitful moments of intensity or brightness…then feeling dull as a marble. Gotta keep moving!!

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I feel you. I’m also struggling with sleep and night cravings/crazy memories I drank to forget coming up when I’m in bed. Meditation has been helping a bit when I make the effort to do it.

Congrats on two weeks!

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Day 8

Checking in sober

The throught is better, now I have cough and my taste is 80% gone. I slept 11 hours last night.

Had a little craving just now…

It’s good to be fully detoxed as a side effect and I wanted a new start!

I am a bit depressed as I miss my sport activities and everything goes around “virus management” these days. But I will pass through it…

Much love :black_heart:

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7 days without marijuana
167 without alcohol

I feel pretty good

Thinking what to have for lunch…
If that’s my biggest issue I think I’m doing ok

Take care
Stay strong

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@liminal.rehab What I did not liked about social media when I deleted my Instsgram and then Facebook is that actually we sort of are what we - think - others - think about us, that alter personality / or alter ego / avatar forms through this long chain of relations, with its hidden traumas inside that chain , but social media is virtual reality that actually this becomes our chains of prison - at the end getting lost, trully did not knowing ourselves, speaking with phantoms in our heads in that virtual platform. It is very unhealthy, but less and less people paying attention to this, failing into theese traps and then we have millions of people with psichological problems out of this.

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Good job wasteland!

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Yea, we definitely need to free ourselves from the algorithm

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Congratulations on ur week clean from marijuana! Way to go!

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Way to go on 1 week sober!! :clap:

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Doing the check In, not as good for regular life I had a transmission Jack slip at work and take out my knees, and right arm is a little bruised up,

I’m still sober though, they said I have an ACL/MCL sprain some bruising and swelling, but I’m ok, they respected that I am a recovering addict and just gave me Motrin. So I’m supposed to relax and Ice and we’ll follow up

The ironic thing, the same day, Wednesday we had to go through our info for a HR audit, just to make sure everything was right. And I was like oh I need to change my beneficiary and Emergency Contact Person, then by lunchtime this happened; talk about things lining up.

I sent a pic of my knees, I’m wearing shorts there’s alot of bruising on my femur bones as well, which is not in the photo, when the Jack slipped, it came towards me, where the heaviest part of the trans was, and Hercules here in a moment of infinite wisdom tried to catch it like it was a fucking baseball, obviously it didn’t fare out well.

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Checking in

Im not using today. Ive decided to stop counting the days for now and literally be one day at a time. I havent used more days than not. But ive still had alcohol. I think the pressure of counting days was def helpful at one point but later became part of why I used again.

I dont want to spend money. I want to eat mac and cheese. I dont want to be terrible. Thats why Im not using today.

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I dont kno? It is true that the only sober day that matters is today.

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Wishing you a speedy recovery and you look so sore :people_hugging: I’m just glad your are ok :hugs:

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