af day Fri 11 Jan

[kuya]

af day Fri 11 Jan

L-glut is good for cravings but theanine, GABA, inisitol are very good for anxiety. GABA worked wonders for my anxiety in early sobriety and I moved onto the other two later......they were just as good.

[Catbuddy]

af day Fri 11 Jan

SF, thank you for sharing and I hope we are helping in some way. It breaks my heart that you have such anxiety - I found mine got better from NOT drinking, so I guess our brains all have their own biochemical dance. I take an antidepressant, and when I tried to reduce dosage during early sobriety, I got aggressively harmful and suicidal urges. So, no thanks, not yet, going to tiptoe into any changes, not going to rock the boat just yet. Anyway, :l to you.

I've been reading lately about AL patterns, and the assertion that we stop maturing emotionally when we start drinking was made. It rings true for me, I'm just wondering why. It is nice to feel as though I'm growing up, it seems to happening as a lovely by-product of my sobriety plan - keep growing, find new hobbies, clean up the messes you made when you were drinking, etc. Anyone have any theories why stop maturing? For me, that would be age 22. Yikes.

Cat