Just signed up, just wanted to be around people who understand.
I haven’t gone more than 24 hours sober for 4 years and I just got a notification from my quit drinking app letting me know it’s officially been 7 days since my last drink.
Feeling clear headed is an absolutely staggering difference. I have had a couple of occasions where I’ve thought about the difference and involuntarily giggled like a child. I even got a little bit watery eyed when I was going for a walk in a local park and felt so free.
A couple of small struggles have been my body craving the sugar it’s missing out on and I have struggled to sleep. I think I’m having to learn how to fall asleep again because I got into the habit of drinking until I crashed every night. Although even on 5 hours of sleep I feel a lot more awake in the day.
I just want to do everything possible not to get complacent.
Anyone that’s struggling to get through that first day right now I will keep everything crossed for you and send you all my positive thoughts.
When I got sober, one of the reasons that I chose the AA group to attend that I did was that they gave out chips for each month of sobriety - and I was so excited and proud to pick them up month by month, until I got to my 10th month. That marked the longest period of sobriety since I had started drinking. I had a 9 month stretch maybe 10 years prior, when I went to rehab and got deeply involved in the aftercare program and somewhat in AA.
I recall giggling, and crying, when I contemplated that milestone in the moment.
Keep growing your sobriety, from my hard fought experience, mere avoidance and willpower will not be an effective long term strategy - you can leverage you 7 awesome days into a permanent contented sobriety!
Well done. It’s up and down for me. I keep telling myself no matter how bad the lows get they are never as bad as the hangover from 2 or 3 bottles of wine. With pushing myself I can lift this bad mood a little but nothing can fix a hangover not even the hair of the dog, it only delays it. Keep going, can you believe you are writing this! I still get a shock…at the end of it all… sober
