Giving Up/Cutting Down Alcohol Thread Part 17

maggiem

Stayed AF today Monday so 5/18 please Cathybird. 

Wanna_Bee_Free

AF tonight but ended up drinking last Thursday so I am still on 4/13 for this evening. 
I hope you sleep better soon alt80, it's horrid when you can't. Good luck taking things one day at a time, 19 days is great!

xxlalxx

8/28 for me this evening... really enjoying this forum @cathybird thank you for hosting it. Its so much easier when I am holding myself accountable and declaring my intentions.

@alt80 The two things I mentioned would help in lots of ways. Valerian (where valium was made from) help sleep and take the edge off cravings potentially. 5HTP occurs naturally in our brains, it is the precursor to serotonin,  so your brain doesn't make serotonin without having 5HTP first. So especially helpful if you have used amphetamines and the serotonin is usually depleted ie bad come downs. Boosting you mood naturally would probably help with sleep, cravings and any irritability that may come with them. These things are only herbal so you won't be on cloud 9. The 5HTP won't do anything at all unless you take one a day and let it build up. Hope this helps x

alt80

Can't remember if I updated, if I haven't 8/26 for today. 

@Wanna_Bee_Free thank you. Well done for an AF day. The sleep is really difficult at the moment, just about getting through but finding things very hard. Still on one day at a time, one hour, one minute whatever it takes tbh.

@xxlalxx also enjoy this little corner! Great to see how well everyone is doing and everyone really supportive. Agreed re holding myself accountable. I am on here for a debt problem mainly but the drugs never helped with that tbh many stories to tell buying stuff either high or on a comedown, couple of crap business decisions made whilst using too and drinking is one of my (many) triggers hence cutting the alcohol too. Does nothing good really, now face the consequences of having a substance problem, tbt some days takes handing my phone over to my wife to stop me from giving in. If I could get a few good nights of sleep, know I won't crave it as much. I used cocaine, fairly heavily at times but I suspect it's similar re brain being depleted of feel good chemicals - suffered the !!!!!! comedowns often enough. Anyway thanks, I'll give the valerian a go one a day hopefully that will help a bit.

Coveredinbees!!!!

Back on the wagon today 5/20.

xxlalxx

I've never declared early morning before and a bit nervous in case jinx myself... however always a day behind on the target board so here goes nothing! 9/28 @cathybird please xx

xxlalxx

@alt80 just read up on 5-HTP and it is not to be combined with anti depressants (I was about to buy myself some but thought I'd better check). Always just check with the staff in store/GP. Talking about helping ourselves, I'm going to buy a Vitamin D supplement, really missing sunshine and daylight. This winter seems determined to stay a while longer .... 😥😢

Barny1979

9/25 AFDs today 

cathybird

February

7 days = 14 days = 21 days = 28 days = Target reached = Target beaten =
February targets
alt80 8/26 AnnieG 1/18 Arkers 4/TF Barny 9/25 cathybird 9/21 Coveredinbees 5/20 ditty1234 Dryjan 2/10 lantanna 6/13 leftatthetrafficlights 1/10 maggiem 5/18 maman 5/10 ManPants 1/TF marahouti 6/21 picnmix64 PriceySOS 4/22 RobM99 5/24 Season of Mist 25 Steameh 28 sukeyboo 4/10 WBF 4/13 xxlalxx 9/28

cathybird

Morning all, it's 9/21 for me today   I tried to update the list last night and the MSE website wouldn't let me and kept giving me the following message: "Argument 1 passed to KeywordBlocker\Library\KeywordContentFilter::matchesWord() must be of the type string, null given, called in /var/www/frontend-fb2e0342a7483c/plugins/KeywordBlocker/Library/KeywordContentFilter.php on line 70" ... I couldn't make head or tail out of it so tried again this morning and worked out if it was line 70 it must be the "All Welcome to Join" bit at the end, and so it proved - when I left that off I could post the list no problems. Not sure why, will keep working on it.