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| Hi;
This is my first post, it is the first time I have ever wrote about my problem, never gone to a meeting or admitted anything, never miss work, and drinking - I don't miss a day.
I have done... Hi;
This is my first post, it is the first time I have ever wrote about my problem, never gone to a meeting or admitted anything, never miss work, and drinking - I don't miss a day.
I have done this for as many years as I can remember, and they were a lot. I have raised a family and have grandchildren. I do have a problem and hate myself for it. But before I go into too much detail, I have been reading your post and want to say one thing, it only gets worse with age. You don't wean off of it because you are older, your body needs more and more.
As you get older and your family and friends begin to leave you, you find that all you want to do is be alone and drinking makes all the anxiety and problems go away. Well at least at that moment. But they only keep growing.
I didn't really try to stop until this year, after getting really sick in December 09, I stayed abstent until mid April, surprised myself. Went through all the signs of detox, night sweats, jitters, but now with age I noticed it has also affected my health, high blood pressure, anxiety, nausea, weakness, arthritis, lack of appetite. So this year I decided to try to turn my life around.
I tried again a couple months ago, it only lasted 5 days. Once again I am on day three, it hasn't been as bad, contraire to the last two times I am focusing on what I need to achieve and how I can do it. I have visited many sites, read really inspiring literature on focusing on the positive, even ordered some. I think it has really helped because these last days haven't been so bad, yes, the first one was somewhat but nothing like the first time that put me in bed two days.
I am going to be reading these blogs daily, it is the first time I can actually relate to other people with the same problem. I hope it will be the inspiration I need to continue forward. I look forward to sharing ideas and experiences, hopefully we can help each other.
I personally am tired of having a useless life, work, come home, drink. I am decided to make a change.
Thank you for taking the time to read this, hope to hear back from you
Time2qt
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| Where I Was |
| On day 46 sober, I finally feel as though I have enough sober time to write a post like this without jinxing myself. I know that I am in control of my sobriety now, and that it isn't going anywhere. ... On day 46 sober, I finally feel as though I have enough sober time to write a post like this without jinxing myself. I know that I am in control of my sobriety now, and that it isn't going anywhere.
When I found SR I was drinking every night, and that led to blackouts and explosive fights with my husband on a semiregular basis (for extra fun, because of the blackouts sometimes I couldn't even remember the fights.) We had a generally good marriage the rest of the time, but I never knew what was going to happen once I started drinking -- whether we'd come home from a night of drinking mad at one another or not, whether I'd remember what happened or not.
In addition, I was facing problems at work due to my lack of attention to detail (probably due to the fact that I was dragging myself to work every morning hung over) and I was constantly anxious about it. I drank to escape the anxiety, which led to more mistakes and more anxiety... you get the idea.
I found SR on day 2 of sobriety, after a particularly bad fight with my husband following which I finally decided I wasn't going to do this to myself anymore. These days my life looks very different.
I wake up in the morning refreshed -- sober sleep is so much better than the fragmented, restless sleep I have known for the past few years. I do some basic cleaning tasks in the morning before leaving the house in addition to getting ready, like emptying the dishwasher from the night before -- my hungover self would have laughed hysterically at THAT idea. I get to work early, around 8:15 -- before almost anyone else is in, and about two hours before I used to wander in during my drinking days. This means I can leave earlier too, around 5:30. My husband and I go home and I usually cook dinner (another thing my drinking self would have laughed at -- I used to settle in with my bottle of wine and order takeout.) After dinner I do another 1-2 hours of work around the house or paying bills, etc. -- stuff I used to neglect when I spent the evenings drinking (my home is much cleaner and nicer now than it's ever been in my life as an independently living adult.)
After that, I take a bubble bath (how did I ever forget how great those were?), read (another activity I love that is much better sober), or possibly watch some TV with my husband (but I watch much less TV now that I don't drink, only a couple of shows each week if that.) Then I head to bed early, get some good sleep and it all begins again.
Weekends now mean more housework, relaxing activities with my husband that don't involve alcohol (like dinners and movies -- we barely ever went to the movies before I quit drinking), and special projects to further improve my home or life. They used to pretty much mean getting wasted and spending the next day recovering.
My marriage is much more peaceful now. My life is busier, but more productive and no longer filled with anxiety. When I go home at night from work now, I am able to truly relax and focus on what I need to do at home, because I now deal with my work issues head on, competently, and while I am actually AT work. I don't need to drink to escape the stress from my work problems, because I solve them directly instead.
I know that this post is very long-winded and I won't blame anyone for not reading it all the way through, but I wanted to use this post to give you all some sense of what SR has done for me. Although I know I've stayed sober on my own strength, and because I was ready to do so, I also literally believe I could not have done it without all of you. I learn so much and get so much support even just from logging on briefly every day to check on what is going on here. Thanks so much and I'll be here for a long time to come.
Day 46, going on infinity...
-- SBTS
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| Sinner to Saint......? |
| Some A's absolutely do recovery.....and there's a story on TV tonight that's about just that, and even more.....truly a story of hope, and even a teeny, weeny miracle...?
Tonight, on the NFL... Some A's absolutely do recovery.....and there's a story on TV tonight that's about just that, and even more.....truly a story of hope, and even a teeny, weeny miracle...?
Tonight, on the NFL network, at 10PM Eastern Time, there will be a show entitled 'Sinner' about New Orleans Saint Defensive Tackle Anthony Hargrove. Just for a recap of his career (in case you weren't aware)....: college at Georgia Tech; drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in 2004; traded to the Buffalo Bills in 2006; suspension (for violagions of the NFL's substance abuse policy) in 2007 (first four games) and then a one year suspension in 2008; signed by the New Orleans Saints in 2009.............and well, the rest is history!!!! (again, if you didn't know, or if you've forgotten, the New Orleans Saints went on to win the SuperBowl that season).
So, if you're interested in a 'sinner to saint' show, with lots of words from Anthony Hargrove himself (I totally related when he says, at a point near the end of his 'using career,' when he looked in the mirror and wondered, "Who is that?"). You might want to check it out.....soooooooooooo
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Check Your Listings
NoelleR
P.S. ...and here's wishing you and yours a good clean and sober day, year, and especially a good, clean and sober football season....woooohoooo!
P.P.S. I know I've posted this in more than one forum, but it's really meant for replies, so, monitors, after today (Tues, 9/7) feel free to remove....any and/or all.....
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| US MI: Detroiters May Vote on Legal Marijuana, Proposal Heads for Ballot |
| Detroit Free Press, 06 May 2010 - Ballot Proposal in Detroit Turns Up Heat on Both Sides A Detroiter who helped lead the drive to allow medical marijuana in Michigan is pushing for something bound to be equally controversial: legalizing pot in the city of Detroit. |
| US CA: Effort to Free Bryan Epis Continues |
| The Chico News & Review, 06 May 2010 - EFFORT TO FREE BRYAN EPIS CONTINUES For a time Bryan Epis was a hero among medical-marijuana activists. Now he's more like a martyr to the cause. That's because, after an epic legal battle lasting since his arrest for marijuana cultivation nearly 13 years ago, in June 1997, the Chico man is now back in prison, ordered in February to serve out his original 10-year sentence. More precisely, he's in the Sacramento County Jail, waiting transfer to a state prison. |
| US DC: D.C. Council Approves Medical Marijuana |
| Washington Post, 05 May 2010 - For doctors such as Pradeep Chopra, long accustomed to prescribing carefully tested medications by the exact milligram, medical marijuana presents a particular conundrum. On Tuesday, the D.C. Council gave final approval to a bill establishing a legal medical marijuana program. If Congress signs off, District doctors -- like their counterparts in 14 states, including Rhode Island, where Chopra works -- will be allowed to add pot to the therapies they can recommend to certain patients, who will then eat it, smoke it or vaporize it until they decide they are, well, high enough. |
| US CA: Column: Legalizing Pot Will Help Save Patients, California's Economy |
| Santa Monica Daily Press, 05 May 2010 - From week to week, there are five basic topics that a columnist covers. In ascending order of importance they are sports, pop culture and the arts, local politics, national politics, and predictions. Depending on the reader, there is some debate about whether local or national politics is number two, but there is no question that the most important skill any good columnist possesses is the ability to accurately forecast the future. Naturally, my 14-months-before-anyone-else 2007 Official Groundbreaking Prediction that Barack Obama would be elected the 44th president of the United States followed by my alone-among-my-peers 2008 Official Groundbreaking Prediction that the Obama inauguration would be the "cultural, social, and political event of a generation; like Woodstock meets the March on Washington" cemented my status as America's smartest columnist. |
| US CA: City Gives Notice to Pot Stores |
| Los Angeles Times, 05 May 2010 - L.A. Sends Letters to 439 Dispensaries Giving Operators Until June 7 to Shut Down Los Angeles city prosecutors began notifying 439 medical marijuana dispensaries Tuesday that they must shut down by June 7, when the city's ordinance to regulate the stores takes effect. It's the first step in what could be a lengthy and expensive legal battle to regain control over pot sales. |
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