>Quit drinking cold turkey
>Quit all my drug habits cold turkey
>Have deeply disturbing, graphic, violent dreams every night since I got sober
When will it end, 'bots?
It ends eventually.
>>35968846
Tell us about the dreams.
>>35968846
Congrats man. I don't think I'll ever be able to quit my habits, I just can't deal with things sober atm.
>>35968884
The one last night was a group of teenage migrants in a dinghy at sea (I was reading about migrants fleeing Syria yesterday). One of the teens was holding a gun, and they'd explained their boat had capsized. His mother drowned. These five teens were the only ones left. I asked the kid what he's going to do now, and he smiled and said "I'm gonna miss her like crazy!"
Then he pointed the gun at his own chest and shot himself. Then I just kind of hung in that moment in the dream for a few seconds before I woke up.
A couple nights earlier I dreamed I was getting burned alive by sentient fire which was burning all my non-essential appendages and organs first so I had to experience every second of pain until I was a limbless trunk with a head. Then the fire stopped and disappeared. And I was still alive.
Then there was the one last week where my city was nuked and I died of radiation poisoning trying to get to my parents' house. Vomiting blood and watching all my teeth fall out. Staggering through the rubble.
It's been a shitty couple weeks, Anon.
>>35968887
That was the point I got to, too. But eventually I realized all my issues were still going to be there when I sobered up, and I was tired of using drugs and booze as a means of escape. I honestly didn't think I would have the willpower to quit cold turkey until the day I did. Flushed everything down the sinks and toilets.
Not saying it doesn't kill me to walk past a liquor store without popping in for a handle of cheap gin, but dammit I'm trying to make this stick. Sure as hell isn't easy, though.