Long Term Sobriety Requires Actually Dealing With Problems I’d Rather Avoid
For the past two months, my life has felt unmanageable. I've been crazy, messed up, mixed up, upside down, off the charts, not even knowing what side of the map…
For the past two months, my life has felt unmanageable. I've been crazy, messed up, mixed up, upside down, off the charts, not even knowing what side of the map…
Long story short, I thought I had to do it all on my own. I wouldn't seek help from anyone, but instead resigned myself to "toughing it out." Well, at…
Last week, I had a relapse. The overall specifics don't really matter (in the sense that, to an addict, anything can appear to be grounds for relapsing, so it doesn't really…
NOTE: I originally wrote this just days after I successfully swore off pornography. Now, after three months of complete abstinence, a lot of these thoughts still run through my mind…
On Thursday I wrote a pretty lengthy and somewhat complicated post, along the lines of the kind of stuff I used to write all the time before I quit coffee…
It's been six weeks since I had a cup of coffee, or a cigarette... and almost twelve weeks since I've viewed pornography. Time-wise, I think it's safe to say that…
Today (for the first time since I gave up coffee and cigarettes), I actually did something nice for myself. It was a small thing; in fact, on any other day…
A month ago I quit drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. For 33 of the last 34 days, the withdrawal symptoms have been so strong, I haven’t been able to think…
I don't ever want to relapse. But I don't know any other way to control the pain.
Today marks 30 days without coffee and cigarettes. I wrote the first sentence of this post eight hours ago when I woke up. I've spent those past eight hours trying…