/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I am now 6 months sober after 7 years of being a hardcore alcoholic. When I quit, I had to go to detox center, I was basically locked up and heavily sedated for a week. Ativan for anxiety everyday and some other stuff to keep me from having a seizure. I had really really bad shakes. While in detox they set me up for a month long stay at an inpatient rehab/sober house thing. Spent a month in a huge converted house with 16 other addicts. Was an interesting experience. It was half alcoholics and half heroin users.

I've fucked up here and there though, in the past 6 months I've gotten drunk 3 times. So technically I have "relapsed", but hey, those 3 times I did not have a fun at all and felt sick, really showed me I'm not missing anything and I'm better off sober. They say I can never drink again, but honestly, if I maintain this sobriety for another year, I'll test out drinking on special occasions only and see how it goes.

The best part of not drinking is I have gained my natural appetite back, I love eating again and I'm always hungry, feels amazing after almost a decade of having a fucked up hangover stomach.