The Dangers of Boredom When in Addiction Recovery How To Avoid Relapse

It is also responsible for moderating moods and emotions. Serotonin depletion can cause feelings of sadness, anxiety, and irritability.

But that is because it gave them a hit and a distraction. And it easily stopped them from being bored. So some of my clients have done things. And right now, a lot of the things that they do are online classes or solo activities or connections that don’t involve coffee shops and fancy French restaurants for brunch. And maybe you can’t go to the French restaurant for brunch. But you can get takeout and have a picnic in a beautiful park alone or with a group or with your family.

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And she has to figure out what to do with them, or fruits that she had never discovered. And that too is an exercise in creativity. You won’t lose all your friends if you don’t drink but you will likely find new and better favorite activities or even enjoy the same old ones in new ways.

Given the ubiquitous nature of alcohol advertising, you might look forward to having that drink as soon as you walk through the door at home or meet your pals at a bar. You feel more relaxed after that drink and look forward to the reward. Pretty soon, the anticipation starts to happen more frequently. This kind of patterned behavior can lead you down a path toward alcohol addiction. A change in your friendship dynamics doesn’t have to be a bad thing, however.

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Yet, no matter how much pain it causes to the individual or family, alcohol is one of the most difficult substances to remove. If you are ready to kick this poison out of your life for good click here to get started or check out my live quit drinking seminars. Drinking to combat boredom can be problematic, but you can prevent long-term consequences if you identify it early.

The key to not letting drinking because of boredom severely impact your sobriety is having a plan in place when it strikes. A plan will not only help you maintain your sobriety, but it can help you progress in your recovery as well. Yeah, I know this feeling, hence me looking at these changed lives and I wonder why I can’t convince my husband that he is worth it. The bloodshot eyes, all the empty bottles and beer cans…the list goes on. I’m glad he added in that he dieted and worked out too.

Alcohol didn’t make life fun. It just made you not care.

Because I’ve experienced riding a motorcycle and I know it’s true. I know the product does what the marketing says it will do. In each episode Casey will share the tried and true secrets of how to drink less and live more. If you haven’t read the Sober Lush, go ahead and pick it up. Or someone said even listening to it on audiobook was even better, because the stories are so rich and descriptive, and also short so you can listen to them in snippets. But just giving you ideas of what you can do, and picking out an assignment that you want to try. You can read a novel that is not about subprime.

• You may believe you must hide your drinking from others, so you drink solo.
• And I had to learn and I had to look at.
• We were all just sitting around and getting drunk, perfectly content to not really do anything together.
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• Oftentimes people move away from healthier habits when they are actively drinking or using drugs, and it can be difficult to reestablish those habits in early recovery.

And one day it will occur to you that you’re actually happy and enjoying your life. Volunteering is a great way to reconnect to your community. Helping others actually boosts our own mental health and feelings of self-worth. AND, it helps us to become less self-absorbed which, quite frankly, a lot of us are.

The problem is that I don’t have time. I didn’t give up all my old hobbies to drink while staring at the wall all night. I started drinking because I literally never have free time – maybe five minutes at a stretch, certainly not long enough to play my guitar or go for a hike. I used to love reading and now, at best, I only get to read five pages in one day. And that started months and months before I started drinking, so it’s not the alcohol that made it that way.