Good luck m8… You’ve come this far, so you’re definetly strong enough to do the last few laps…:bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl
And even if it doesn’t feel like it for the first few days, it does get better quickly… Just take it one day at a time, and do what feels best for you – if you want to stagger it alternate days, or do it straight off, it’s up to you – there is no “right” way.
College will be better for your being finally clean too (not just in terms of your attention level, but also in terms of the extra confidence getting control back from an addiction…:weee:), so missing a few days to do it won’t hurt….
From personal experience, I found keeping myself occupied helped immensely with going cold turkey, so getting stuck into college may actually help more than you think (although nobody I know seems to agree with me on this – the consensus seems to be avoid stress… Don’t really understand it myself, as sitting around doing nothing just ends up with me thinking endlessly about how bad I feel etc… Horses for courses though…:wink:)
Something else to meditate on (continuing your theme…):
You have control of only this moment – the past has been done, and the future isn’t yet set. Live in the moment, and learn to be at peace and happy with how life is now (you already know by now that the place to seek that peace is inside yourself – anyone who has come through heavy dependence, and has the will to try and stop knows that the external search for peace/happiness is grasping after phantoms that ultimately don’t exist…)
So don’t worry about “how I’m gonna get through x,y,z”, or “how will I cope when x happens”, or “what do I do when y comes round”. Live in the now, and deal with the imagined situations when and more importantly IF they arise. Fretting about possible events will only fill your now with negative thoughts, and will make you less able to cope if they do happen, not more…
All of which is easy to say, but much harder to do (see earlier comment about keeping myself busy when going cold turkey….. ahem…:crazy_diz….:wink:)
Gone off on a waffle again haven’t I? Keep doing this…..
At least you know I’m thinking of you, and am cheering you on though…
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If you need an ear, I listen almost as well as I talk, so post or PM me if you want to vent steam/need a boost or whatever….
PLUR
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