Jackal
Bluelighter
Well done you two!@F.U.B.A.R i recall you saying that moving away from BL massively helped you cut down on drinking. gotta say same for me. i had a while where i was horrendously ill and on antibiotics that you genuinely couldn't drink with. i tried but it made me feel the worst i've felt since my last proper rattle.
my mental state is better, i'm calmer, i've been more active with my buddhist community, reading more, i've made progress on a problem that myself and my colleague have been working on for nearly a year with 0 progress and is fucking hard. at first i was replacing my time on BL wasting time elsewhere on the internet, but now i spend it doing stuff irl, or if i'm online its usually chatting to irl friends.
honestly if anyone is spending too much time on here and are noticing problems with their mental health, i'd consider stepping back. BL didn't cause my massive relapse into cPTSD so i'd still have had an awful year for mental health but i'm just amazed at how much more even my mood has been, and how much calmer. and how that changes the second i engage with certain people on here.
I tend to post more here while on a run, rather than posting here making me go on a run of booze and madness etc
Agree 100% about internet time being poor for mental health though; between work and a screen addiction it seems like I look at a screen 16 hours a day and it really isn't great for my head. I have began leaving the phone at home during non work hours and it helps a lot