The cutting out/cutting down alcohol thread (part 7)

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DEBTMONKEY1A wrote: »

115....don't beat yourself up! If you look under my other posts you'll see my G/F has had MH issues...keep in touch with your CPN/CRISIS team & you WILL get better...beleive me excess booze+MH issues do NOT mix...on a lighter note google omega 3 acids (fish oils) + mental health issues-take 2 a day-really helps...deffo worth a try!

Thanks Debtmonkey. :A

I just had a frustrating phone conversation with my local mental health team. I honestly don't know what happens to people with something like schizophrenia when they try and call up to access some help if I can't seem to get anywhere with them.:mad: I get passed around from department to department and no one seems to have any clue with what they are doing. I'm going to write down the name of the person I'm talking to next time for when I call up.

I'm going to see my psych later today so hopefully that should make me feel better.

I hope everyone else is okay.:A

Can I have a target for 10 days this month please.

40somethingmum

Good luck for today 115K:)

Love

40SMxx

40somethingmum

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eselt

Hi all

Welcome to returners and new people. Loads of posts since I last looked- CONGRATS to YM and Marru, great news.

SIM- I'm worried about something you said in an earlier post about coming round from your 3 day binge- you mention you had a 'mild' fit experience which set alarm bells ringing with me as when I was drinking 24/7 and tried to quit on my own by stopping abruptly I had withdrawal seizures which landed me in hospital 3 times. They can be very dangerous. Please go and see your GP and explain what happened and your symptoms (be upfront about the huge binge that preceded this) as you may need a more supervised reduction/medicated withdrawal programme if you want to quit and stay safe.

Habit and boredom seem to play such key roles in this disease for many of us. I know I had to change my whole routine, identify when the 'danger' times were going to be (and my drinking was pretty predictable, the only thing that changed was I was drinking progressively more) and plan with military precision other activities during these times which made it impossible for me to drink- even daft things like putting false nails on so I couldn't open a can without ruining them. I found myself having to do the same as HEATH and GC, eg. completely change the pattern of my social life, having no alcohol in the house whatsoever, ,not going to pubs etc . I even stopped going to the supermarket and ordered all my food online so I wouldn't be tempted by all the booze offers. For 2 Xmas's I stayed at home and avoided family get togethers (I think they were relieved as there was always this tension around how drunk and embarrassing I would be) and only went out to eat with people who knew about my problem and wouldn't expect me to join them drinking. Yes I was a hermit for a while, but its all been SO worth it.

Can't remember who asked about the 'puffy' face going down after 5 days AF, but I had this- my doctor put it down to a combination of fluid retention and kidneys struggling caused by drinking. Cheekbones and clearer skin returned when I gave up.

Best of luck to everyone today.

DEBTMONKEY1A

Eselt....agree about having to change your routine....for me booze is maybe 80% pure physical 'habit' & maybe 20% mental addiction??! All that I know is that after say 2 days AF the strong urges at my drink time are not there (well only 5%)...but i suppose if you drink enough so that by the next day at the 'danger' time your body has only (or within the last few hours) got rid of the booze from the day before then you DO get anxious/want more...so it's a never ending cycle.

Eselt-it was me who mentioned the chbby/puffy face!

115k...whrn you see your psych 2morrow-maybe ask if their is a 24 hour crisis line/team-you may need to be referred to them by your psych/GP? I know again I'm probably stating the obvious (& apologies if I am) but as well as the omega 3/fish oils (I know I'm going on but does make a huge difference in MH cases)-excercise 3 times a week or more is GREAT! Now I know that's often the LAST thing you feel like doing (I know from when my g/f was recovering) it really really makes you feel better after about 15/20 minutes...you don't have to join a gym...force yourself to maybe jog 3 times a week (start with say 20 mins-1 min walk-1 min jog & work up to say 45 mins & increasing jogging time)....it does help! And again i really hope this does not sound patronising (you've probably had the same said to you maybe by the cpn?) but it DOES really help!

Bye all....off to pot off my home grown chilli plants & put em in my lovely plastic greenhouse (!)...AF for me tonight!

jo1972

Good luck for later 115k xx

Eselt, 5 days huh :think: I'm on day 4

Bored at work, only a few people in. Want to get access to you lot online but I've a feeling there's a big brother thing in place on the work system so will just stick to hotmail and access you by phone till I know for sure!

Lurkio

honeybear wrote: »

I'm not sure we'd get away with any of this if the boys were around :rotfl:

But then, speaking of which, where are all our boys? :question:

:wave: :wave:

No I wasn't watching Eurovision (but am gutted I missed it )

Can I be a 'no target' please Miss P

Must get my act together.......

Hope everyone is well

SimIsOnTheUp

eselt wrote: »

Hi all
SIM- I'm worried about something you said in an earlier post about coming round from your 3 day binge- you mention you had a 'mild' fit experience which set alarm bells ringing with me as when I was drinking 24/7 and tried to quit on my own by stopping abruptly I had withdrawal seizures which landed me in hospital 3 times. They can be very dangerous. Please go and see your GP and explain what happened and your symptoms (be upfront about the huge binge that preceded this) as you may need a more supervised reduction/medicated withdrawal programme if you want to quit and stay safe.

Best of luck to everyone today.

Thanks Eselt.

The fit / strange erratic shaking I had, while half asleep, happened Friday night I think.

I haven't had any drink since then, and certainly won't be. If anything, luckily, I can't afford it.

So, the booze will no doubt be out of my system by now.

I hear what you're saying about talking to the Doctor though. Don't think they will give me Librium though, due to the drink being out of my system.

Today, I've been to and from my bed, as I've just felt exhausted. Physically, and mentally shattered.

Felt very low earlier. Overwhelmed by the fact that I've got myself into debt, over the past 2 years (again) mainly due to the booze (again). This is a tough one to get my head around.

My bonkers behaviour, last week has really flummoxed me. Selling my phone, worth around £400, for £180 :mad: What was I thinking? Scarily, at the time, all I could see was money for more drink.

Dysfunctional relationship with a lady who is wonderful. We are not right together though. She's way in Ireland, and I know I should call it a day when we see each other, when she gets back, but I really don't want to hurt her.
There's never a good time, for these things is there?

Regarding the voluntary work, I was doing at the local homeless charity, I've been emailing my boss, and he's been great. Told him, I'm getting some help this week, and will be back in next week.

Need to work full time - paid work, but don't feel well enough.

Need to get my ar - se to rehab, but I'm worried my local Substance Misuse Team (who refer people) may have already run out of funding. Also, if I do go in for 3 / 6 months, then my ESA will no doubt stop while I'm in there (My ESA Tribunal thing is due around August), and that's the last thing I need to be worrying about.

Am due to see the Substance Misuse lady tomorrow at 3pm, and am even feeling too shaky, to go out to the corner shop for milk, let alone walk down there, for the counselling tomorrow.

In bed earlier, I kept going over the last 10 years, and the people I've hurt, the love of my life who I let down, how my Dad and I haven't spoken since last December, how I'm b*ggering my body, and brain up. How I have no true friends, no career, no house of my own, no car - and I'm 36, coupled with the £24,000 I owe.

My Girlfriend, last Friday, called me all manner of names - eg - 'loser' (she's apologsed profusely since) and I'm starting to live like one. I really need to turn this around.

Think I read on here, someone had posted booze being the 'nectar of losers' - spot on, it is, and 'm not going there again.

Can not live like this anymore.

I really want to turn this all around, but just don't know how.

Sorry for wittering, but right now, i need to get this down on here.

Thanks,

Sim x

Miss_Piggy_2

Afternoon everyone!

Ok, here are the runners and riders for June so far....

40somethingmum 0/25
BudgetBabe 0/no target
Debtmonkey1a 0/20
Decemberbaby 0/15
Fayjmck 0/30
Honeybear 0/14
Jo1972 0/no target
Lurkio 0/no target
Maman 0/10
Marru 0/30
Miss Piggy 0/20
Penelopedee 0/16
Shaggydoo 0/17
Skintscottishgirl 0/25

Come on everyone, you can do it!!

Miss P
xx

jo1972

The school that I work in has an outside crowd that comes in and does swimming lessons, my DD1 learnt to swim here about 12 yrs ago, she went for a couple of years twice a week and really enjoyed it. Was just talking to the site manager asking him who does the swimming now cos I want my little ones to come and he told me the previous couple were dead. The husband died in 2001 and the wife a year later, both from alcohol poisoning, they were prob both in their 50s