Published on 12, July, 2020
Bored and lonely. That's how I feel at the moment.
I wish I could not feel anxiety and depression the way I have for a long time. How hard it is to find the strength to go to a social group, class or just talk to people generally when I feel this way.
The brain fog, going blank when near people, panicking. I feel lonely at home too, my mother goes out so much and has a busy life.
I was reading quite a lot for a while, for some reason the past two or three days I just feel like sleeping a lot and feel melancholy.
It sounds like the reality of life is kicking in now that the alcohol is no longer dulling everything. Well done for giving it up, a huge achievement that you should be proud of.
One approach you could try would be to set up a regular savings account and put in all the money you used to spend on alcohol each month. That can be your 'me' fund to do whatever you want to do. I find that having something booked to look forward to can be an enormous boost to mental health.