Sobriety, even long term sobriety, is not something to be taken for granted.
Baclofen gave me a sense of security for years, so that I didn’t remain abstinent. I regret that now. In my earliest posts, I swore that if I reached “indifference”, I’d never drink again. Ha. If only I knew…
But you know what? Drinking, when I wasn’t drinking like an alcoholic—meaning very rarely, and even more rarely overdoing it—was fun! And I thought I would be okay forever. But then I stopped taking baclofen, and exercising, and well, doing the things that got me sober.
MWO meds section was a shit-show at that point with more trolls than people actually working toward sobriety. And it was a HUGE part of my being able to stay sober in the beginning. I’m still bitter about what happened back then. Honestly, it’s never recovered. (Need to add that and CM to my resentments list, probably as number one. How could I have misplaced that evil sob? Anyway..) (as if I’d EVER make amends to him just because I hate him for his evilness and idiocy. Wow. I have a long way to go. But thank goodness MWO was bought and he was banned. I suppose that’s reparations, in some way. He can spew his evilness elsewhere, because we all know he hasn’t stopped.)
And bad stuff in life happens. And I still had no coping skills. I still don’t! Working on it though. @Mulburry, what do you do daily that helps? I’m sure you’ve posted about it, and I’ll look back, but I’d love to hear what you’re doing now.
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