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Your recovery has the potential to help you be a better friend, partner, sister or brother, professional, volunteer, and more. As long as you allow yourself to take the necessary steps forward, you can take this growing opportunity and newly found free-time to improve your life in all areas. You may find that to grow, you have to take inventory and release unhealthy habits from your past.
- If you’re worried about what other people will think if you become sober, then it’s likely that you’re scared of becoming sober.
- They will leave to keep taking drugs or alcohol (who will stay with you and support you through your decision to get sober).
- This is especially true if you’ve been able to hide your addiction up until now.
- When we asked our alumna to describe what being sober feels like, she gave a detailed and inviting description that captured these key points.
In some situations, people are scared sober, meaning they suffer life-threatening consequences to overdosing or using. You may be afraid to stop using because you have no idea what life will be like after you do. With all of this chaos surrounding you at that moment, you’re just starting to acknowledge what’s happening to you. The thought of pulling your life back together or improving it can seem impossible. In those early days, it’s always possible to find yourself experiencing emotions you don’t know how to deal with well. Yet, with the help of your team of professionals, you can work through them and find yourself in a much better place.
Common Fears about Getting Sober
Acknowledging and celebrating the hard work of recovery is helpful for keeping you motivated and reminding you why you took this brave step toward sobriety in the first place. Just be sure that your rewards fear of being sober don’t involve drugs or alcohol. Instead, focus on things, experiences, and activities that will support your new, healthy lifestyle. Mostly, we are in a great amount of pain and change is our only option.
- Think about how you always go out with the same people and drink or take drugs at the same place (or one of a few local hot spots).
- Research shows that if you maintain these types of toxic relationships, your chances of relapsing are greater.
- If these concerns resonate with you, remember that sobriety doesn’t happen overnight—even if you try to rush it.
- The process can be uncomfortable, particularly for someone who is afraid of feeling in general.
- For example, why are some people afraid of scary movies or roller coasters?
Because he is a member of a support group that stresses the importance of anonymity at the public level, he does not use his photograph or his real name on this website. Learn that you have choices and that you can maintain control. If any area of your life is out of control, it will not help you maintain lasting sobriety. Once you do return to work, it’s important to create a budget and take steps to safeguard yourself as work stress can be a relapse trigger.
«I’ll hate being sober.»
If you haven’t felt what sobriety feels like, you can. The promise of sobriety is that “the way I feel stone-cold sober, even on my worst days ever … I would never trade to feel the effects of a drug and drink again,” our alumna said. She said anyone can have the same experience being sober. The hitch is you have to do it—as in get sober. It wasn’t until well into my sobriety that I thought, “this is for me.” During my first year of sobriety it was just something I was doing, not drinking. I wasn’t sure where I was going with it, if I would stay sober forever, or even if I was an actual alcoholic.
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