Recovery filling time in early sobriety?

[insufferablenerd]

i’m back on the wagon AGAIN (it’s been a crazy month tbh) and i think this time i need to do things to keep myself sane instead of wallowing (partially bc this relapse was way shorter than the previous one so i imagine it will be way less physically & mentally demanding). when i just spend time on screens i get a lot of relapse urges.

problem is i am disabled and my ability to do stuff is kind of nonexistent. i can get 2-3 productive hours on a good day at the moment but then the rest of the day is there. a lot of activities off screens that are low energy enough for me to do aren’t things that i could do for hours and hours (e.g. walk & podcast, reading) so i need suggestions for more things to rotate between.

anyone have any activities that kept them sane through the first few days/weeks? or anything that you just enjoy? i also have no money rn because of course i bought a lot of my DOC that i ended up getting rid of anyway (hate my life).

 

[thatmf]

Binge on a good show, if you like video games they can really help as well. Listen to some of your favourite music or whatever clicks with you in the moment. Try and chill, coffee helps a lot. Nothing fancy either just instant.

 

[thatmf]

And hey walking/podcast/reading sounds good! Baby steps :D

 

[SteeleyJ]

Anything to get you up and moving. Anything that you enjoy to try to get those batural feel good chemicals going.

For me ideally... maybe a good video game that i can get lost in for a few days. Then maybe take fam to the beach. Romantic date night with thw S/O. anything to keep me from fixating on the drugs... or rhw ynderlying reasons for using them.

Also i sever all the old ties to the drug world as clean as i can. Obviously rhere will be some solid friends that you wont bail on... but you dont need to be hanging out in the glass house either.

 

[LucidSDreamr]

Get into lucid dreaming. You usually have crazy dreams when you stop using drugs and sleep and the dreams can become its own replacement mind altering experience to look forward to.

otherwise life in general and being clean always feels like "doing time" not passing time, no matter what I'm doing even if its fun. just accept it I guess.

 

[insufferablenerd]

Anything to get you up and moving. Anything that you enjoy to try to get those batural feel good chemicals going.

For me ideally... maybe a good video game that i can get lost in for a few days. Then maybe take fam to the beach. Romantic date night with thw S/O. anything to keep me from fixating on the drugs... or rhw ynderlying reasons for using them.

Also i sever all the old ties to the drug world as clean as i can. Obviously rhere will be some solid friends that you wont bail on... but you dont need to be hanging out in the glass house either.

beach trip sounds AMAZING. we don’t have car n we live a few hours away from a beach so it costs quite a lot to get to one bit i def need to sort smth in the summer.

totally lucked out w drug world as i’m incredibly antisocial so have barely any friends addict or not n my addict friend decided to get clean abt a week after i did.