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Recovery The 2022 alcohol support thread

Never know the program on itself,cause been there less than a month.smoking,meds...most like med.facility.I know,that this 12 steps was founded from an exalcoholic.a place,when at least can find a way to enter in remission.as to final goal-to live sober life-it happens with somebody.and yes they believe in higher power,but they are not sect....vut had limited impressions from that type rehab
 
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me 4 hours ago:
I'm so hungover. I can't be doing this. I'm killing myself. Sleep paralysis last night. Hallucinations. My whole body hurts. My stomach is probably on the verge of bleeding. I can't be drinking man. I don't want to drink anymore.

me 5 minutes ago:
I should drive to the store and get some beer

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

fucking insidious shit man
 
insidious
I hid behind it for most of my life. fucked me over. my choice i reckon but it cannot be denied that there seems to be little control once one acquires a "liking" for it.
i cannot say was the last habit to be reigned in (as there are many that can go) but will say it was the most difficult i think.
insidious
what a word
sounds scary imo

how'd that go?
hesitant to ask, sorry.
 
Had a brief relapse last weekend. Got really pissed off at something and on impulse went and bought a 26 of Fireball and 6 pack of beer. Drank all of the fireball and fell asleep. Woke up at 4am feeling anxious and shaky. Chugged the beer and lied in bed half awake for a few hours. Didn't buy any more alcohol after that. Cravings gone now. I also stopped taking my Quetiapine and have reduced my Haldol from 3mg to 1mg daily. I'm now relying on Trazodone and hash to get me to sleep. Anti psychotics should not be taken daily for most people.
 
lmao yeah

story of my life


most people yeah
What meds you on bro

I'm coming off these anti psychotics mostly because of weight gain

Seroquel fucking put at least 75lbs on me over the last 8 months or so

So now I have to go into ketosis and/or go on a meth binge to get back to 150lbs
 
What meds you on bro

I'm coming off these anti psychotics mostly because of weight gain

Seroquel fucking put at least 75lbs on me over the last 8 months or so

So now I have to go into ketosis and/or go on a meth binge to get back to 150lbs
I've got bottles of seroquel and risperidone, never gained weight with either of those only olanzapine which is notorious for its metabolic effects, but after my foray into serotonin syndrome I'm scared to take them while I'm also drinking/smoking cannabinoids

I've barely touched my quetiapine bottle which is fresh... last time I took it was to sleep during kratom withdrawal and it made my RLS 10x worse

I also run a lot tho, at least 12 miles per week, I get really anxious if I don't jog every other day

pretty weird being an alcoholic and the first thing I feel like doing with a hangover is running a few miles. lol... but it cures hangovers for sure... but inflammation is crazy and I don't think I can do that for very much longer in my adult body
 
“Of all the drugs known to man, there is only one capable of raising five, sometimes six, of the eight neurotransmitters that shape the way we experience life. That drug is alcohol. We in the detoxification profession refer to it as the mother of all drugs or the kick-ass drug. The pharmaceutical industry has never produced a drug as all encompassing in its effect as alcohol. Most drugs will raise one or two neurotransmitters at a time.

Often antidepressant medications will raise serotonin and possibly a little noradrenaline. It is rare to find pharmaceutical agents that will raise two or three neurochemical systems. Wellbutrin (bupropion), the most powerful pharmaceutical agent out there, is an antidepressant medication that will actually raise three in somewhat of a reasonable manner: noradrenaline, dopamine, and acetylcholine.

Alcohol is the ultimate stimulant for the brain. To date, we know of no other agent that comes close to matching its power; alcohol’s effect on the human body is unprecedented. This influential drug is ultra-powerful as a neurotransmitter agonist. It moves the brain’s neurochemicals like no other drug on the planet.

Alcohol raises serotonin, GABA, endocannabinoid, glutamate, and at high dose, increases the release of opiates. It also has a significant end-result effect on dopamine (which is very euphoric), adding up to a total of six neurotransmitters being affected. All this stimulation makes alcohol a powerful anti-depressant (not to mention highly addictive) and an even more powerful depressant once it wears off, causing neurotransmitters to plummet.

.......

When an active alcoholic suddenly stops drinking, they experience severe withdrawal. The GABA drops dramatically, creating a marked imbalance between GABA and glutamate. Glutamate, like race cars in the brain going hundreds of miles an hour with no stop signs, goes higher and higher, causing more and more agitation. This increases the severity of withdrawal symptoms and leads to delirium tremens.

By the second or third day of quitting, the alcoholic starts to experience confusion, agitation, and the shakes. The periphery of the body is a strong indicator of what is happening internally. Tremulousness, shakes, sweaty palms, and hyper-agitation of the body are all symptoms of the elevated glutamate’s effect in the brain.

At the 72-hour mark, the glutamate suddenly stops rising and begins to decrease over time while the GABA levels slowly increase.


 
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