Addiction & Recovery
Related: About this forumTwo weeks, no purging. All the other stuff is still happening, but not the purging.
It will be nice when I get better at defusing urges, and when I stop living life at level 11 hair-on-fire.
jpak
(41,757 posts)gademocrat7
(10,656 posts)GPV
(72,377 posts)The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)GPV
(72,377 posts)irisblue
(32,971 posts)GPV
(72,377 posts)RainCaster
(10,870 posts)Remember the Serenity Prayer, it will be your mantra for a long time. Gradually, you will add others.
GPV
(72,377 posts)way.
Rhiannon12866
(205,311 posts)What's helped me is to realize that I've only got to make it through the next 24 hours - or less - and to remember to breathe. Times change and I can, too. Talking to someone who's been there also helps and that's exactly what you did. Good going!
GPV
(72,377 posts)I cant make it that make it harder to ride the urge out.
Rhiannon12866
(205,311 posts)And, if anything, that's a distraction. One saying that helped me when I was struggling was "Move a muscle, change a thought." It didn't matter what or how simple it was, that was a distraction. And it gave me more time.
Stuart G
(38,421 posts)Often when I drive to a meeting or to the store..I see the stupidest things that other drivers do. You name em
I have seen them.
All I can do is control me, and what I do and avoid the nutcakes..........and guess what.??????
We now have a sane person as President of the U.S. ..