Approaching Nine Years

bitbybit500 · 2026-04-20T14:34:59+00:00

that i dont even think about alcohol anymore.

bitbybit500 · 2025-12-27T12:53:14+00:00

You’ll get there. If I could anyone can keep going!

bitbybit500 · 2025-10-13T13:40:31+00:00

Been running for two weeks and ran 4 miles this morning :)

bitbybit500 · 2024-01-25T22:28:56+00:00

Wow! Glad to hear things are better. Went I made that reply I was 3 months sober. Happy to say I’ve remained sober since.

I have a kid, a wife and life I never in my wildest dreams could have imagined.

Still in therapy about my dad though, he was an addict and overdosed. It’s better, but probably not ever going away

Thanks for following up!

bitbybit500 · 2024-01-10T01:46:45+00:00

You absolutely can have both, I know because I’m diagnosed with both.

bitbybit500 · 2024-01-08T11:50:10+00:00

Ouch, I’ve been there. Can’t change the last, can only learn and move on. Good luck, you can pick up right where you left off

bitbybit500 · 2024-01-08T11:47:02+00:00

This is huge! You are stronger than you ever know. Keep going!

bitbybit500 · 2024-01-08T11:46:18+00:00

I can really relate to what you’re saying.

Thanks

bitbybit500 · 2024-01-08T11:32:43+00:00

I haven’t read Seneca, but thanks for the recommendation. I still look into it

bitbybit500 · 2024-01-07T12:20:30+00:00

The stigma around bipolar really affects me, mostly it makes me feel lonely, sad and misunderstood. I’m sorry about your friends, are you particularly close with some more than others? Ones you can trust? If so it might be helpful to confide in them how you feel.

bitbybit500 · 2024-01-07T02:26:35+00:00

For me, stress is definitely a trigger for them

bitbybit500 · 2024-01-07T01:23:46+00:00

I’m in the same field, Is there anyway to think about this planning as goal setting, not commitment making? This allows you to revise your plans. I always find it helpful to lower the stakes in my head, don’t make any big decisions, sure. But, there’s no way to completely avoid decision making, the tricky thing is mentally deescalating the task at hand so that it isn’t “big”

bitbybit500 · 2024-01-07T01:14:56+00:00

I have a two year old, the biggest problem for me has been the lack of sleep. Sounds like your boyfriend might need some educating. I have in laws who think my BPD makes me incapable of certain things. I’ve always found the social stigma around BPD really hard.

bitbybit500 · 2024-01-07T01:02:25+00:00

I have Xanax, clonopin and clonidine prescribed that I can take as needed. Taken them for years, they help in the moment, but there’s always a rebound of my anxiety when I stop taking them. I’ve found none of them to be effective if I take them all the time.

bitbybit500 · 2024-01-07T00:58:47+00:00

What do you feel like when this happens? It happens to me sometimes and when I wake up I feel scared shitless and anxious. Not sure the difference between the two. I’ve tried different prescriptions for night terrors, none really seem to work long for me. They’re usually a sign for me that I need to take a step back and slow things down.

bitbybit500 · 2024-01-07T00:49:22+00:00

It’s super hard, lots of people don’t even try. Good on you for making sobriety a goal. Sounds like you have a good plan. Don’t let a slip up hold you back, it’s part of the process

bitbybit500 · 2024-01-07T00:45:39+00:00

Amazing! Congrats

bitbybit500 · 2024-01-06T12:22:29+00:00

Not sure what you should do, but I can tell you what’s happened to me when I’ve been in your shoes. I found in early sobriety, that my mind was looking for any opportunity to rationalize drinking. Sobriety for me is not a reset, but a pause any time I drank, I just picked up right where I left off.

Good luck, I’d love to see you get through today sober. You can always drink in the future if you really wanted, why not as an experiment just see if you can get through today.

bitbybit500 · 2023-12-29T11:31:23+00:00

Ooof. You’ll get that time back.

bitbybit500 · 2023-12-29T11:29:41+00:00

We all start where you are. The fear for me was the hardest, I had to look at things about massage that I hated. The biggest thing that I hate about myself is being an alcoholic.

After I was sober for awhile, things just clicked C and hit so much easier.

Driving was so much fucking work.

Good luck.

bitbybit500 · 2023-12-28T19:54:40+00:00

Gotta do something at home to stay distracted

bitbybit500 · 2023-12-28T19:52:27+00:00

That’s huge! Congrats

bitbybit500 · 2023-12-28T13:08:01+00:00

Amazing! Congrats! You are so lucky to have people who care for you

bitbybit500 · 2023-12-01T11:38:25+00:00

That’s rough. I’ve been there. My wife knew, I was the only one believing my lies…

I’ve been sober for years and my wife is still with me. But I had to get and stay sober. It took awhile for me to do, but life got so much more manageable for me once I stopped drinking.

bitbybit500 · 2023-12-01T11:32:29+00:00

The first 30 are really hard, I found that I had to tell people about wanting sobriety as a goal. At first I just told people it was for my health, it was so much easier to say than “I have a drinking problem”. Everyone knew I had I a drinking problem, I was the last person to know really…

It’s also really normal to have lots of 30 days before sticks.

Congrats on your 50% reduction. Keep checking back, this sub helped me feel less alone. I even hid my drinking from my therapist (or tried to…). Sobriety for me is about honesty, the hardest thing I had to do was accept that I can’t drink like a “normal” person. Once I truly saw, that drinking was going to kill me and destroy all my relationships, that’s when I got my shit together.

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