Anxiety depression and losing myself
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Breathe and center yourself.
Put the bat down. Life is worth it.
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Thank u 🥲
What is going on?
Hi Jonathan: I wrote on your earlier posts. Your body and mind are going through physiological changes. Are you in isolation? Can you surround yourself with others in recovery? It really helps!!
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What’s going on man am here
Hang in there man. Just keep pushing. You got this. Just remember if things are bad and we use they’re just gonna get worse. And if they’re good they’re just gonna get bad!
Anxiety is real.
Depression is real.
It takes literally one minute at a time. I feel like bad a lot. And it effects my life. I pray you find peace in the storm. But know sometimes the storm lasts a while. It’s a painful space to be in and my heart goes out to you. Be ok with not being ok. We do have good days to hope for.
Keep pushing forward, man. It may seem like you can’t but you got this. I hated when people told me this, things get better. It gets easier. I wanted a time machine to skip everything in the middle. All I can share is my experience. You will not know how long it will take to get there but when you do you will know and it is unbelievable. Also, have mental health care that as experience with addicts has really helped me.
Your not losing your self your learning your self. Learning how to live sober is rough. We would use/ drink to escape reality. Reaching out like you did you will find solutions and that you are not alone. Life is shitting on me right now but going back won’t fix anything. Pick your head up be proud of who you are! You got this. Reach out anytime
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I understand this feeling. For the anxiety-you May want to look at a few simple things. Do you get enough sleep, that plays into it. Valerian root or some Calm magnesium powder helps with anxiety and it’s natural/non addictive. For the depression, reaching out to others, working out or getting into a meeting or nature can help significantly. But i feel you sometimes it feels overwhelming. Remember, it is a moment and it will pass.
Open notes on your phone or write down on paper how you feel, all of it, unfiltered. It’s something I fought against for almost a year. When I finally did it, it made sense why a ton of people were saying journaling helps.
Often times our issues swirl in our minds endlessly, and cause us emotional pain in some way. And we tend to store this information mentally instead of writing it down,
Because the pain helps us remember what we learned from what we never wish to go through again.
Once you type it out or write it down, it will always be there to refer to, should you ever forget. And you’re free to come back to it and review it as many times as you like. And you’re free to journal about it as many times as you like.
Once you do this, over time, you’ll be surprised at how few times you think about certain specific issues that have been bothering you, because you have addressed them to the best listener you know (yourself). You’ll be amazed at how few times you return to the roughest journal entry. Journaling helps you move on. It helps you mentally breathe.
Daylio is a good app for this (i use the free version).
PTSD Coach is also a good application. Has a list of issues (triggered by trauma, anxiety, depression, etc), you pick the one that you’re going through at the time you want, it asks you to rate issue at hand from 1 to 10 then it will guide you through coping techniques. Believe it or not, its really helped me when I was emotionally dysregulating on a regular basis.
Hope this helps!
You're in our prayers 
Prayer and meditation, over and over and over again. When I drank I’d drink bottle after bottle after bottle, now I get the relief through prayer and meditation over and over which leads me to reach out to others fro relief. So glad you reached out.