Good morning fellow sobernauts, IWNDWYT 😁!
We may be anonymous strangers on the internet, but we have one thing in common. We may be a world apart, but we’re here together!
Welcome to the 24 hour pledge! I’m pledging myself to not drinking today, and invite you to do the same.
Maybe you’re new to c/stop drinking and have a hard time deciding what to do next. Maybe you’re like me and feel you need a daily commitment or maybe you’ve been sober for a long time and want to inspire others.
It doesn’t matter if you’re still hung over from a three day bender or been sober for years, if you just woke up or have already completed a sober day. For the next 24 hours, let’s not drink alcohol!
g’day team, was having a really shit morning, super uneasy “I need to gtfo of rehab” feeling, all that vanished when a C17 globemaster flew overhead, i shat, started tracking her on a flight path app, she headed straight for alice springs almost dead centre of australia, but she made a little dip around my hometown?? other than that, straight line, I was slightly offended. she dumped a bunch of shit at alice and is on her way back here. ill see if she does it again. day 12, learned how much damage alcohol really does in class, big yikes but been fantasizing about weed. hmm.
That’s interesting about the plane! Worry about the alcohol, don’t worry about the weed, IMHO. You’re doing great, ALL of the alcohol is out of your system now! Half life’s and all. How are the meetings going?
the in ward meetings are p depressing lots of trauma dumping and bad vibes from patients id rather not hang out with, very keen to get back to my home group, when someone gets a chip they pass it around the circle and charge it up with good vibes I’ll pass around my necklace. only let a few special friends here touch it. but plan to get AA circle and triangle tattooed on my right hand over a self harm scar and this cool infinity one mick found and printed out for me, in case I get ambidextrous about drinking. generally, things are improving nightmares are subsiding, way less vivid and retraumatising, new antidepressant and looking forward to going home. i think a big part of yesterdays bad vibes was homesickness, and not just for home but for my home meeting, my job, my family. shit I’ve just spent so much time in hospitals since 2021, very over it
I like flying things. They are neat.
Rehabs do teach you a ton of things though and that is cool. I am sure you are getting really good at your “I” statements by now too and that is always good to learn for a ton of situations in life.
Don’t worry about the pot fantasies. It’s not alcohol. (Rehabs tend to treat it like the devil, if you haven’t seen that yet.)
Above all else, your main takeaway from rehab is that rehab sucks ass. It can be enjoyable for some, I suppose. (I must have liked it so much I went back at least 4 or 5 times.)
An old acquaintance was confused as to why I kept going back and then he simply told me one thing: “If you don’t want to get drunk any more, then don’t drink. It’s as easy as that.” It took me the better part of 15 years to figure out what that really means, but I have a few years of sobriety under my belt now. (I don’t count days. I was sober today and that is all that matters to me.)
hey thanks v much. i shouldn’t be counting but im hyped for my first AA chip, im full commit to sobriety, today’s lesson was how much damage alcohol does to your entire body which was, idk solidifying my sobriety, terrible drug. I’ve had to detox a million times but this is my first rehab, I’ve learned so much ive laughed ive cried and im almost certain I have bipolar and a shitload of trauma to work through. thanks for the encouragement I really love checking in even tho I go way off topic, but itll be good for me to go back through and read my rehab journey. thanks friend, congrats to us on getting through another day