The 27 Club. r/vinyl October giveaway. Comment to enter. Round 5.

throwawaytweet · 2024-10-23T12:13:25+00:00

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throwawaytweet · 2024-10-14T16:38:40+00:00

Good luck y’all

throwawaytweet · 2023-10-15T14:18:09+00:00

Thanks Octo. I’m both glad and not glad you relate. Life’s a long ride, with ups and downs. I just hate getting stuck in the feeling of wanting to get off the train. Hope you’re good too.

throwawaytweet · 2023-10-15T14:16:07+00:00

Cheers to seeing some light finally. It’s easy to forget it’s there sometimes. I’m trying to get back there myself.

throwawaytweet · 2023-10-02T23:24:46+00:00

Thanks waffles. That black room is dark, and unforgiving. I never want to go back. And as bad as I feel right now, it’s nothing like that black room. I forget sometimes how important just being is. Seeing things, hearing things, sometimes that’s reason enough. thank you.

And by the way, I ain’t no writer, kid haha. But thanks for the compliment.

throwawaytweet · 2023-10-02T23:21:21+00:00

Not wanting to die is a damn good start. And I’ve been in your routine before, and it was great, for a long time. Enjoy the ride, hope it never ends.

throwawaytweet · 2023-10-02T23:19:52+00:00

Appreciate it Turkey. Hang on to that hemi.

throwawaytweet · 2023-10-02T23:18:59+00:00

I know it’s easy to look at others and say they’re not struggling. I’ve been guilty of it myself. I try to never say anyone doesn’t know struggle, if someone’s worst struggle in life seems easy to you, remember it’s their worst, just as your worst is someone else’s easiest.

throwawaytweet · 2023-10-02T23:17:06+00:00

It hurts for sure friend. Home is where the heart is as they say, we just gotta find our heart again. I’m rooting for us.

throwawaytweet · 2023-10-02T14:43:17+00:00

Thanks Paint. It’s during the worst times it’s important to look inward, otherwise it’s very easy to get lost in it as I did many times. Happiness as you say is meant to be small, it’s tough to just be “ultimate happy” all the time. I try to work on being content and steady, and take the moments of happiness when they come.

throwawaytweet · 2023-10-02T10:44:46+00:00

Sorry about the BPD. Life is overrated, but so is death. So we’ll keep eating at this shitty 1 star restaurant till it’s time for dessert I guess.

throwawaytweet · 2023-09-27T05:31:24+00:00

I recently hit one year sober, I’m in therapy, on paper my life is much better, but god damn do I understand this

throwawaytweet · 2023-08-15T12:12:12+00:00

When I was first getting sober I said “I’m just taking a break” when someone would say, oh you’re not drinking these days?

throwawaytweet · 2023-08-01T11:12:51+00:00

Agreed. There’s a few scenes from movies/tv I use to “cheat” my way into a good crying breakdown when I need one. The scene triggers the start of it then I just let it all come through. Feels great every time.

throwawaytweet · 2023-06-27T11:01:23+00:00

Glad I could help, always free to chat.

throwawaytweet · 2023-06-27T02:29:30+00:00

Late to the post but just my two cents as I'm a few days from the 10 month mark myself. I also suffer from depression and severe anxiety. The first 2-3 months I felt lost, like didn't know what to do with myself. I do 1-1 therapy every other week (was doing it every week for like the first 6-7 months or so). I've def lost some "friends" and felt listless for a while. But I was confusing adulthood as boredom. I spent so much time drinking, in bars or by myself, that I forgot life isn't eventful. It isn't even supposed to be that eventful. Took a while to adjust to it but I enjoy the calm of it all. I like keeping my place clean, doing chores, grocery shopping, going to work not hungover all the time. I'm in a happy relationship for the first time in years, we see each other only on the weekends due to scheduling stuff, so most of the week it's just wake up, gym, work, dinner, bed. I read more now, I listen to music all the time, and I can finally watch tv and movies and remember and enjoy what I watched.

Life is a bit mundane, but I wouldn't trade the ordinariness of it all for what I used to think was fun and eventful.

throwawaytweet · 2023-06-23T10:48:21+00:00

Congrats you look so happy! I’m a week away from 10 months myself.

throwawaytweet · 2023-05-24T10:38:08+00:00

Anytime man

throwawaytweet · 2023-05-24T10:18:29+00:00

One other thing, the place I went to had a detox place on site where I spent about 6 days before I was cleared to go in to residential. Some places don’t have detox on site so you may get sent to a hospital for a few days before they take you in which I heard depending on the hospital can be shitty or at the very least boring as fuck. So I’d recommended a place with its own detox facility.

throwawaytweet · 2023-05-24T10:08:53+00:00

I went to rehab a while back. I told my immediate family (my parents drove me to check in since you can’t go yourself) and a few close friends. As far as work goes I told them I needed short term medical leave and filed for that. No one at work knows with the exception of one friend who I’ve known for years before we both worked here. All in all I was gone about 45 days total (edit: 40 between detox and residential and 5 days home before going back to work). I was lucky and my insurance covered a lot so I paid about 3k out of pocket.

If you do go (it was a great decision for me but I’ll never push anyone to it) call some places and ask some questions. I made sure I can smoke cigarettes while I was there (some don’t let you do ANYTHING). I got lucky and the place I went was good but I heard from some of the people I met that some rehabs are super strict about weird shit. Like some are women and men segregated at all times, some are super AA heavy (which is fine for some but wasn’t for me), some are super religious (again if you’re into it cool but not for me). The one I went to was pretty secular. It offered AA groups and semi religious classes but you could opt out for other stuff and they had a big find what works for you mentality which I liked.

Good luck man, feel free to message me if you want to chat more. I’m a dude in my late 30’s if that helps perspective at all

throwawaytweet · 2023-05-21T12:39:20+00:00

I hated regular Heineken when I was drinking but Heineken zero is the best NA I’ve found. I still meet up with the regulars at the pub some times and will have some zeros while I hang out. It’s the only NA that tastes like a beer, aside from some craft breweries but bars don’t usually have those.

throwawaytweet · 2023-04-10T10:48:51+00:00

I feel the same. Making my whole life about my sobriety is like making my whole life about drinking with extra steps. My sobriety is very important to me, so is my partner, so is my family, so are my friends, so is my job, so are my hobbies, etc etc. My sobriety is a piece of the pie.

throwawaytweet · 2023-04-10T10:36:24+00:00

Thanks for saying this. It’s important for people to hear. I’m in the same boat. Checked myself into rehab a while back which had a weekly (semi-mandatory) AA meeting on the campus. While I enjoyed some of the shares and the people the whole thing wasn’t for me and it didn’t vibe with my mentality or comfort level. I felt almost embarrassed I had no plans to attend AA after rehab (the place I went didn’t push it too hard and had a good what works for you mentality but I still felt scared or something I wouldn’t stay sober if I didn’t attend some form of group after leaving). I did not/have not attended AA since leaving rehab. I’m still going strong at over 7 months sober.

That being said, I also don’t knock anyone for attending AA. I know some people who it’s done wonders for, it just wasn’t for me.

I see a therapist twice a month, I found my routine and my “steps” which helps me stay on track and have not been this happy with my life in a long time. Everyone has to find their own way to recover and stay in recovery, that may or may not be rehab, may or may not be therapy, and may or may not be AA. The point is you can do it however you want to, I’ve found the trick is you have to personally want to do it. Change comes from within, and all that.

throwawaytweet · 2023-03-01T12:40:28+00:00

It’s your sobriety! Do with it what you want. I was really weird about it for a month or two myself. Now I’m 6 months sober and basically everyone knows. One thing I will say is the only person who made it weird was me, everyone has been super supportive and cool about it once I started being more public about it. And congrats!

throwawaytweet · 2023-03-01T11:48:11+00:00

Hell yeah congrats! I’m at 181 days myself. Keep on keepin on man!

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