Mental relapse

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Hi guys! I experience a mental relapse and thats terrifying. I should go fix me a sponsor!

Keywords are: switching job, feeling I letting them down on the newly job I got, but I just try to make my life better. This job takes all my energy now.

If I get the even newer job I work to live… not live to work. Better health I guess in total and when I approach the subject like this! I feel much better!

Sober for seven months and seventeen days now.

Enjoy your evening. You are all awesome!
Love Anders! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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A Sponsor would be an excellent idea, ask one who has the kind of recovery you want. Good hunting
:innocent: & :smiling_imp:

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Hi Anders! Glad you are here. This community is a good one for support.

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Congrats on your sober time and continue on your journey.

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Thanks guys. Thanks for your support and your honesty when you share here on Talking Sober. I like to read what you share :heart:

Great sunday to you all :hatching_chick::bouquet::sun_with_face:

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Anders, Im glad you are here. Over 7 months sober is awesome. One day at a time…will get us there.

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Congrats on 7 months and 18 days Anders! Not quite sure what you mean by a mental relapse. But I do know what you mean by the Love! :people_hugging: :wink:

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Thank you. Inner chaos over time @Mno leads to mental relapse. Thats my experience.

Try to explain. Good thoghts (escape my work situation…romanticize about use) about wanting to use alchol and drugs are coming back again when … I havent had thoghts like that in my head for a long period of time. Unwanted thoghts I guess because it scares me! I wanna stay sober and clean. Taking care of my health. Taking care of me. Thats why I share it with you here.

Make any more sence now? :thinking: I hope so @Mno :crossed_fingers::sweat_smile:

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Thanks for your explanation Anders. Makes perfect sense. What helps me to counter these thoughts is the realization that drugging or boozing helps me with nothing. It will just rob me of all I achieved.

I learned this from reading quit lit, watching documentaries, listening to podcasts, from gaining knowledge of addiction, of how to quit, of how to stay sober and clean.

And also I learn it from my peers, from being here, and reading and sharing. Both the successes and the failures from my peers that are shared here give me insights how it is done. As well as the togetherness of course.

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Amen @Mno :blush:

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This might sound silly but in the book ‘the unexpected joy of being sober’ the author describes her work in recognizing and talking back to her inner addict voice. She actually named it - Voldemort. She learned to see it for what is was - cunning, manipulative, and with the goal of her destruction. She says after a while of recognizing and deconstructing the arguments of this voice, it lost its power over her. It can sneak up when you least expect it. I’m still trying to think of a name for mine :joy: but I love the idea. Similar to the concept of needing to recognize when we have negative inner self talk. Congrats on your sobriety!!!

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Interesting reading @Catmama23. I like this idea too! Thank you for sharing this with me :blush:

And when you find a name for your inner addict voice… please remember to tell me :sweat_smile::+1:

I have to come up with a name too! :see_no_evil:More work to do :ok_man:

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Yes I’ll keep you posted! :rofl: I’m thinking ‘Diana’ because of someone I knew with that name who was a total vixen :sweat_smile:

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Oh dear, ‘vixen’ does not mean what I thought… lol well she was someone who only chased having a good time, was very self involved, charming and manipulative, and putting off her responsibilities onto others. However it is a pretty name so I might have to keep brainstorming….

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Yeah! Me too @Catmama23. Brainstorming :ok_man:

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Voldemort is strong (I havent found a own name for my inner addict voice @Catmama23) but after you shared your insight’s with me here, I have been able to change the strenght of my inner addict voice… now less powerful! Voldemort is now weaker than ever! Thank you :magic_wand::star2::sparkles::bouquet::hatching_chick::yellow_heart:

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That is excellent news!!! :grin::clap::clap::grin: I was thinking Cruella de Vil for mine :joy::joy: I’ve been putting her in her place!

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