This is awesome advice! My gf has been dealing with sobriety from heroin, and early on relapsed more frequently. Shes now over a year without using, but wouldn't have been possible if we had just focused on streaks as opposed to understanding relapse is part of recovery
It's terrible, I just lost my little brother because he kept refusing to understand that aspect of recovery. He just kept lying and lying to himself and everyone around him.
One of the most important things is to have people around you who understand the difficulty of going through that recovery process or at least people that understand the danger of a relapse and are able to help you keep it at just a relapse and not your last relapse.
Congrats β you're sober. It will take a while for your body to remember how to metabolize anything that isn't sugar from alcohol, so you're going to be pretty ravenous soon. Eat plenty. You can expect your coordination and balance to improve in a couple of weeks. In two months, you might start sleeping like a normal person. Full recovery will take years, though. Itβll be depressing. And itβll be boring. Donβt expect any further rewards or handclaps. This is how normal people are all the time.
Ngl when I first started I was also playing disco Elysium for the first time and made Harry go sober with me, but then went back on that because I wanted the +1 PHYS boost
Congrats! I'm at 8 months clean from booze, at 1 month is when I noticed positive changes to my outlook and I started enjoying the hobbies I would usually be drunk while doing. I began preparing and using Kava root around that time too, to help with my sleep.
Hell yeah comrade. I'm working on it too. I've had a stumble but I got 2 weeks under my belt between my last stumble moments. It's getting easier to go longer in between. Thanks for your inspiration to push harder next time and see what I can do.
Congratulations! Eventually being sober just becomes something you are, not something you have to think about. How long that takes is different for everyone, but finding new things to do with your time really helps, especially fitness activities. In the meantime, you don't have to worry about staying sober until that happens, you just have to focus on staying sober today. Every day just focus on today. You got this!