Less wets, more dry, sometimes damp. We are tryers to be dryers. Thread 3!

[Frouby]

New thread for those wanting to reduce alcohol. Always supportive and friendly. No judgements, just support to get to where we feel comfortable with our relationship with alcohol. All welcome.

Am a bit rubbish with clicky links but there are previous threads.

[MadameForest]

Badger
There is another more recent thread, Tryers trying to be dryer....hope you find us as you are more than welcome!

[MadameForest]

Badger
There is another more recent thread, Tryers trying to be dryer....hope you find us as you are more than welcome!

[Badgerwood]

Hi, may I join? I've decided to stop drinking for a month as for years now I've needed at least one (often four) drinks a night. I have started to notice my skin looking grey, I have terrible anxiety in the mornings that ruins my productivity for the day, I'm overweight for the first time in my life despite ok diet (am early 30s) and I'm spending an eyewatering amount in the pub.

This will be hard as a lot of my social life is based around my local, but today is day 2 and I enjoyed an alcohol free Erdinger with some friends. I left early as got bored but tpld everybody what i am doing so cant give in to temptation when with them :).
Onwards!

[Dionysa]

Oh FML, posted on wrong thread. Will re-post on the right one...

[Dionysa]

@recoveryishard Just looked at the old thread, and have seen you can't find this one. I hope this alerts you to it!

[recoveryishard]

Can't find new thread?! X

[Dionysa]

Recovery come over to the new thread (Frouby linked to it). Fail for me this evening.

[recoveryishard]

I have a mental health nurse, go, my mum has moved in to help. I barely leave the house and am so depressed that's why I drink. I am trying to get my daughter help, she is starting a new school next week so will ask for counselling when she starts. Being Bipolar sucks! I've been in the depression stage since June and it will not shift, in fact it's getting worse. Also still sat waiting for Social services after my accidental overdose last week. What a fucking mess! X

[NC4Now]

Ahh Recovery, we’ve all done it - gone on an absolute bender.
Draw a line and start again today. Are you getting any support with your mental health and/or DD?

[recoveryishard]

Went from bad to worse, went to local pub, drank 2 more proseccos, ended up in town, I vaguely remember a guy before I fell in the door at 1:30, puked,fell asleep on the floor, woke up ate, went to bed, woke up again puked, couldn't sleep due to the most excruciating headache I've ever had! Pretty sure I had a wee against a wall at some point, I'm very lucky nothing happened to me, again, I WANT TO STOP before I kill myself or have a a serious accident. I also need to figure out how to deal with my daughter. She's suffering, my mental health is in the gutter and all I want is a week sober and then I think I can continue. I feel like such a let down, I pledged I wouldn't drink and I failed on day 2. So I'm going to pretend today is the 1st again. I'm doing everything I can think off and this demon drink just keeps pulling at me. So sick of it all 😢

[NewYearNewDisaster]

Day 1 of my dry January, already feeling a sense of impending doom and gloom. It's the evening boredom I'm dreading the most.

[Flossie44]

Recovery. Don’t feel alone. We are all here. X

[Dionysa]

Recovery I know there is nothing I can do in practical terms, but please keep posting here.

[recoveryishard]

Fuck, I'm drinking! Sat in my car, with awful tonsillitis, smoking and drinking because my daughter is just awful. Came back from her dads and yet again, strips, sulks, refuses to eat! I can't cope, I just can't, I've had to leave them with my mum. Got nowhere else to go. I hate my life 😢

[NC4Now]

Right, onwards. That’s 2018 D.O.N.E.

Sorry to hear you had a shit night Dion. I’m not a huge fan of NY. It’s just another day to me. Hope you start to feel a bit stronger soon. You are.

I wanted to stay home last night but my friends dragged me out. DS2 will be back soon, DS1 is still in bed, so I’ve spent the day watching TV.

Might get a takeaway for tea. I like the sound of Frouby’s noodles!

[Dionysa]

Dries and lows is a brilliant title, Frouby. You ought to get a job thinking up title for people's threads.

I am feeling very rough as well. Slept badly (beer fear).

But onwards and upwards, or so I hope. At least I'm not on spud duty.

Rightway, I can't promise the whole of January. But I am aiming to do more than a couple of days at a time. At the moment, one day would be an achievement.

[Frouby]

Have started a new thread for us for the New Year. Can't link because I am useless but its in Alcohol Support called something like New Thread for 2019, dries and lows or something.

Too hungover to think properly. In fact I think I am still slightly pissed .

[Frouby]

Ahhhh Dion hope you are OK this morning. Gentle, squishy hugs. NyE is a cunt for putting pressure on people to do something or be somewhere or with someone. It's just another night. DH always feels shit on NYE, think he thinks the rest of the world is partying without him.

Wish I had had an early night last night. Urgh. Got 14 people for dinner later. Feel rough as fuck, got a moderate hangover and a dodgy oven to cook with plus 3 bags of veg and potatoes to sort. Fml.

[Rightwayup]

Dionysa

How are you this morning my lovely - please join me for Dry Jan and make this your year as well

wishing you so much hope and strength

xx

[Flossie44]

Dion, throwing it away soooo shows your strength!!

Longest - noodles in pj’s sounds bloody lovely!!

I’m shamelessly sat drinking Moët in my pj’s. Kids still up as said they can ‘see the new year in’. Am sure they think something happens in the sky at midnight!! They’re gonna be disappointed!!

[Dionysa]

Thank you Longest. Have just poured the remainder of gin away, as it was only making me cry even more. Peter Pan and noodles sound lovely!

[longestlurkerever]

I am here too, lots of hugs all round. Dionysa, cry all you need but also keep posting, we are listening.

I've actually had a nice evening. Went to see Peter Pan with the DC, and had noodles. Then a few drinks at the neighbours' but now in my PJs with peppermint tea as hate staying up late.

Recovery and right way, they sound like plans. I will look for your other thread right way x

[Dionysa]

Flossie xxx

[Flossie44]

Stay strong darling. You are worth so so much more. Forget its NYE, it’s jist another evening.
All I want is you to remember the feelings you have this evening and use them to draw strength to move forward and as a stronger woman. You are deep inside. Look where you’ve come from xx

[Dionysa]

Flossie, I never thought it was possible to cry as much as I am crying now.