Hi, first time posting. Managed to get sober for three months last year. Slipped up after Christmas. Been sober for ten days but feel incredibly low today. It’s bank holiday Monday today, I have no plans andI’m feeling very self destructive. Going for a nice walk isn’t going to do it today, I think.
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Try to find a AA or NA meeting I find them very helpful or go to a couple google it you should be able to find some in your surrounding area hope this helps
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Hi, congrats on 10 days, you’re back on it.
What about a day on the settee, there’s bound to be a James Bond film on, its Bank Holiday weekend.
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Thanks. Hopefully it isn’t Daniel Craig. He pouts too much.
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Yea, i agree, he’s not the best.
You can’t beat Sean Connery
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Maybe try a bit more intense exercise? Just for a short period?
Or a cold cold cold shower?
Get in some nice food (but be careful when in the shop! Don’t let the inner alcoholic voice tempt you).
Accept that there will be low days, it’s part of life.
Read a book?
Phone a friend or family.
Chat and read on here!
Stay strong, you are in my thoughts today
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Congratulations on your 10 days.
All you have to do is get through today.
For me : the past few days have been so sh*t, my situation in my life thats ongoing and mentally and emotionally painfull isnt going away any time soon, but i know a drink wont make it better, or make me feel better or make it go away.
So my strategy is to reach out to people who are there for me, reach out to people who may need my support, what can we do today that we would enjoy or can try to.
1, planning to cook a nice dinner and pick a film so we have something to look forward to this evening
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Go for that walk, we wont know if it will help until we have done it.
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Meditating is healing even if it only helps for a few hours it works. You tube 15 minute anxiety meditation, give it a try.
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Call friends or family to visit and help you, if thats a possibility, for me its not.
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Watch documentarys about what drink does to your body and others successfull stories and the ones who didnt make it.
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Keep talking here if it helps.
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Get to a meeting either online or face to face.
Hope you start to feel better, you are not alone feeling like this.
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The memes thread helps me. Finding and sharing memes makes me laugh and distracts me from my sadness, stress and anxiety.
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Hey 
I don’t know if your able to find somewhere to swim. I know swimming, at a pool or outdoors really helped me as an outlet for exercise and also to snap myself out of a low. Also plenty of reading (quit lit helps, reading on here too), resting.
Try and remember how good those few months of sobriety felt last year. You will get there again, the first few weeks are hard. Keep going friend x
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Hey Mark, welcome 
Keep busy with distractions, I suspect there will be a lot of British people on here doing the same through the Bank Holiday.
And be proud of 10 days. I felt exactly the same as you around then. So low and incredibly grumpy. A lot of feelings around what was the point. It honestly gets so much better just a couple of days after. I don’t know what it is about that second week that is so tough mentally, but once you get through it you get massive rewards.
I downloaded a game on my phone that I was addicted to around this time (not any more but it saw me through). Do that, or find a book/box set to just enjoy today. Or do something physical, or eat amazing food. Really treat yourself, you have earned it.
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Hello Mark,
Of course is good seeing the positive side of life. 10 days are very well.
From my side, it helps also having a look on the negative aspects that alcohol cause in myself: depressing, home quarrels, sensation of a non-sense life and, of course, physical ones: non eating, diarreas, stomach pain, and embarrassing and hurting the others.
Lots of negative points. Remember: it is better being bored that going to the booze.
Best wishes!
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