That i don’t go for enough walks being terminally online.
Still smoking while drinking but now only drink 2 days a week and then completely dry the other 5 days
Chronic Stress
Whats the biggest source?
Life
This
I smoke.
Scrolling on Reddit. Eating too much.
reddit will rot your brain
Any social media will.
Yes to some extent. But I have found reddit to be all about the hive mind. You read some of the stuff over there that you know for sure is bullshit. But if you dare call it out, then the hive comes to attack you for daring to point out their bullshit
Absolutely, but I just use Reddit mostly for my sports, music, and video game communities, I don’t do basic news or politics over there. I’m simultaneously trying to have some of those communities active over here too but there doesn’t seem to be much interest.
Smoking of course.
Craving sugary drinks. I tend to get a big craving late afternoon. I try to stay away from sodas mostly, but I still wind up drinking sweet tea or lemonade, and an energy drink a couple days a week.
Unsweetened black iced tea mixed with lemonade has half the sugar, enough caffeine to help, and tastes really good.
I will try that.
Ending conversations quickly
Smoking, doomscrolling, and overeating
Sitting too much and sugar
6 pack of beer almost every night for the past 3 months. Doctor refuses to help me unless I go to rehab, but it’s not feasible to spend that much time away from home.
Husband was drinking 3-4 a night and I was freaking out about it, he got it down to 1-2 by not buying it in packs except on weekend. Like he will stop at the corner store and get one beer for after work.
If you buy only one on your way home, instead of a six pack, do you think you would go out and get more, or might it work for you as it did for him?
3-4 a night?! That’s nothing at all.
I managed to quit for a week by buying one at a time plus a six pack of non alcoholic beer. Trying it out again today.
Good luck to you! A beer, a healthy supper, a walk in the night before bed. You can build healthy habits not just unhealthy ones. Do things to replace that beer. Yin yoga is really relaxing too, good bedtime practice.
Usually I’d be three in by now. Instead I mopped my floors and walked the dog. Eating a big salad now. Trying my hardest rn.
Awesome, that is great progress no matter what. Practice is what matters. Take care of yourself. Not kidding about the yin yoga - slow and cold, with pillows, it sort of tricks your nervous system into feeling safe.
Consider the medication, naltrexone.
Doc won’t put me on it until I’m weeks sober
Naltrexone (either the oral version or the monthly injection) can be started while someone is still drinking. Might be worth asking again or talking to an addiction medicine specialist.
I think people will change their mind when presented with facts
That and having to constantly check myself for just being human and not being the beacon of perfection I was supposed to be.
dermatillomania
Comfort eating. Before I got adhd meds I had zero impulse control, so I’d eat nothing or eat everything. I would be 75% through a giant bag of snacks, and I’d be actively not enjoying them and wanting to stop, but I just couldn’t. I’d stop and put them away and ten seconds later I’d be back eating, even though I was feeling sick and gross.
On meds, that’s stopped and I’ve realised that my craving for snacks is all about comfort, stimulus, and self regulation, and nothing to do with hunger. But even knowing that, I struggle to bother with other harder but healthier ways of stimulating and relaxing, when I could just eat crackers with thick slabs of salty butter, or alternate between dark chocolate and salty peanuts. It’s not the worst, but I’m very conscious of that it’s not really about the food and so it feels like a lot of empty calories just to chill me out a little.
Energy drinks . Can’t really function without them at this point
