It’s amazing to me just how much alcohol/weed/other drugs effects your mental and emotional states. Even when you dont currently have a buzz, it is effecting you. I hadnt even realized it.
But I have spent the entire summer so far 100% sober off of everything. The money I used to spend buying alcohol, I saved that up, and now I have an appointment on the 26th of this month to get all of my prison tattoos covered up. I have lost 30 lbs since mid May, when I quit drinking and getting high. Im doing better in school. I spend my free time exercizing, or meditating, or enjoying Netflix. Things are just so much better. My circumstances are the same, but my outlook and ability to chabge those circumstances have drastically improved.
If youre experiencing mental/emotional pain and youre also drinking or getting high (or both, like I did), Id recommend getting sober. I has just done absolute wonders for me.
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I got off alcohol 20 years ago and weed 5 years ago. I was hooked on Valium for a few years from 2021-2022. I really liked Valiums but all good things must come to an end. Very nasty withdrawals also. Many people use drugs and alcohol so they won’t kill themselves. Then they destroy their lives so much worse because of the addiction and it just doesn’t work anymore. I smoked weed for 40 years but it just stopped working and made me more paranoid and depressed or anxious. In the long run being clean and sober is by far the better choice.
HUGE congrats PW! You & Robert77 are so right, alcohol is nothing but bad news. For years I fooled myself into thinking I was just a casual drinker, or that it was relieving stress, or a million other reasons alcoholics come up with to justify “just one drink”. But I wasn’t fooling anyone.
I quit a couple years ago. I’m still hooked on prescription drugs so I’m not out of the woods, but dumping alcohol was a huge step.
Like you’re describing, you suddenly get the motivation to improve your life. And with that momentum you can make some real changes. Keep it going man, at least one of us needs to make it out of here alive!