Feeling super down and bored. Fighting the urge to use.
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Amazing that you are aware of this…and asking for support. These cravings do pass. These feelings do pass. Have you ever done a zoom meeting? A zoom meeting and tootsie pops saved my as$ a few times in early sobriety.
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Gotta remind myself that feelings are only temporary, you are right they will pass. Thank you for the advice 
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Do you have any sober friends?
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Try the positive talk .I guess the negative thinking is really dangerous
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Hi Natalie, I’m glad you posted this. Why? Because it’s real, and something we all go through. How ya holding up?
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I do, but not where I live. I just moved to a new city.
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I talked it out with a friend and feel relieved!
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Yes! I learned that if I need help I should ask for it. I have been ignoring this app for the longest because I was active. Im clean another day and proud that I stuck it out. I’ve been active for 6-7 months.
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Natalie, I heard this saying, “a closed mouth never gets fed.” Basically, if we don’t speak up, we will starve. Keep sharing your experience and asking questions/help.
I like how you shared your problem and then your solution. Do you have a program you go to? Like AA or NA? How’s your meditation and prayer?
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If anyone would have would have told me how hard it is to get sober I may not have tried. Fortunately my sober supports focused on the benefits of sobriety. Then I was able to clearly see that the most difficult days in sobriety are truly better than being drunk and sick. Sending strength in numbers 
I want to add to this, for me the urges to use were lifted from me when I took the first three steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Step 1- we were powerless over alcohol and our lives became unmanageable.
Step 2- came to believe that a power greater then ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Step 3-made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.
Since I took these three steps I have not had the urge to drink or use this includes nicotine and caffeine as well as alcohol and meth.
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Well thats normal. Living life sober you seem to learn that there is soooo much more time in the day. And figuring out what to do with that time. Stay true to yourself. It will get easier once you figure out what you enjoy besides your addiction.
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We can’t remember the pain it has caused because of the mental obsession and can’t seem to stop until the physical phenomenon of craving is satisfied, but it never will be,
I feel for you greatly. It’s tough to quit without a great deal of pain and trauma. Even then the memories will fade and we’ll be off and running again soon without a psychic change,
You don’t ever have to drink again there is a solution
Just ask someone what to do
To save your life
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I hear you. I mostly drank out of boredom & loneliness. It’s a matter of reaching out to people like you are doing.
Because you said so to many people, I believe in you to choose healthy things to do about this.
You are loved by anyone who understands why you needed to say it. Even if sometimes someone doesn’t know how to have said they love you in the midst of it.
But I’ll make this one easy.
I love you for saying anything about it.
Weird how I can say that and know it.
I just have to hope you feel the delivery of a moment where someone just meant it for no reason.
Don’t give up.
Random dude #10000746377 to know in a moment believes he means every bit of care for a stranger going through something.
That’s why we end up talking anywhere here.
We all went through something and now we realize how much more there is to love having chosen to stop the cycle of using something to make it better.
We’re in it together and random dude loves you.
Even if you fail to meet your own concerns today with grace and use something, you are loved.
But don’t.
Just don’t.
Love the world somehow as it is or talk like this to anyone.
For as long as possible until you don’t need to
Be loud.
And survive this moment.