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It's okay to scream "this fuckng sucks." Except maybe at work (if you like your job.) Everything can be going right, but your brain is telling you things are not going right, and it f****** sucks. Let your brain get that nonsense out and then go and live your awesome life.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Daybreak will be here before you know it.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

What are you supposed to do with all this time?

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Trying to do things sober that you only associate with using is scary. You have to be in a good place, and be prepared. It's not an excuse to use. It's not an "oh well." It's not a requirement to use just because it has felt that way for decades. Today is a new day and a new way.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I get waaaay too invested in my work. Truth? It doesn't matter. It's a job. I choose this work because it is challenging, but if I quit or got fired I'd be okay. There is no finish line, just more to do. I know I have to adjust my approach and attitude before I work myself to death.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Waiting for the big snow!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Caught a glimpse of myself in a mirror out in the wild. I'm pretty sure I have an inability to recognize my own face - I look so alien to my own brain. I don't mean old or ugly... just foreign, detached, not mine. I don't have a face when I picture myself. I don't have a face when I dream.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

This is supremely fucked up. I mean, I read about this earlier, but to see it in writing is devastating.

submitted 31 days ago • 700 comments

Worked until 3:30am last night. Definitely felt it all day. My brain was fried, and the whispers started before I even packed my work stuff. Tonight's plan to keep the whispers from turning into screams? A mini turtle pecan blizzard with Reese's peanut butter cup. It's okay to be weak sometimes.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Not even one. Not for me. To be fair, those little whispers that tell me it will be fine are not totally wrong. Because it will be fine, I'll handle it great for days or weeks... until I don't. And it's a hell of a lot easier to get off track than it is to get back on. #sober

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

"Why are you acting so different?" I am truly out of fucks to give. I am not currently engaging with things that don't help me grow and shine. If I am no longer entertaining you or making you feel powerful, and that's a problem for you, that sounds like a "you" problem. Good luck with that.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

In Sweden there's a dam monitored by random people worldwide watching an underwater livestream. When enough fish gather (and are reported by the random people watching and ringing the virtual doorbell), the ecologist has the dam keeper open the dam to free the fish. Maybe there's hope for us yet.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

I caught myself thinking of breaking into an old Rx I never opened (cuz I'm an addict that wanted to protect my body from interactions, obvi). Results of reflection: I'm not actually in serious pain or sore. I just desperately want to check out & 2-3 would do it. Get your shit together, girl!

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Did you know McDonald's Blizzards now come in Chinese takeout boxes? The look of confusion on my face...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

The remote work debate was funny because it forced the question "Is a job something valuable you do or is it a place you go to be watched like daycare" and the answer for a lot of them was yeah it's the daycare thing now come on inside recess is over

submitted 41 days ago • 437 comments

About to send an email that says "I did your job for you like you asked, feel free to read it and put your name on it"... but in corporate. "I'm glad I could be instrumental in designing and implementing this program. Thank you for the opportunity to be of service. Teamwork makes the dream work!"

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

We let the 8 yo say goodbye to grandma. Cancer won. She has a couple weeks; he doesn't understand why he can't stay with her. I'm not ready for him to watch the dying process in HD, not yet. We left, and she started sobbing about how unfair this life is. Hug your people.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

I ventured into a Sam's for the first time in probably a decade The milk containers (jugs?) alone make me think the apocalypse is nigh. Gigantic blocks with strange shapes, lest the usability get in the way of the need to stack huge quantities of milk in tight spaces.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Going Dutch is a cute fun comedy. Refreshingly light. Perfect for laundry folding time.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Doing what it takes for today. Avoiding volatile and hostile family members like the actual plague. Even if it makes them angry, resentful, or suspicious. If it keeps me sober, maybe that's how it has to be for now That's work I can do when I'm stronger.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

It's just a job. It's just a job. It's just a job. Let it goooo... At least enough so you can sleep.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

I like to spend Friday nights at home panicking about every decision I've ever made and can't change, but in, like, a really fun and sexy way

submitted 51 days ago • 15 comments

I made it to 7pm today on three pieces of fancy chocolate and a clementine. Finished the night with an embarrassing amount of fettuccini alfredo and now I feel so sick. Impulse control is definitely a constant work in progress in all areas.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes I get in the dumps about what I've done to my body, and what that means for my future. It's a really short drive from there to "Screw it." Cunning. Baffling. But we're still winning. No screw its today!

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

It's Monday. Get it!

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Cool data. Now let's look at substance use disorder! I know we couldn't get a real number for true proportion, but curious what the data we do have would show none the less.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

This week's purchase because I'm not buying ($lots) of alcohol every day? A giant fluffy plush comforter for couch nesting material. Surprise bonus, it also functions like a weighted blanket. Anyone else buy silly things sometimes with the money you're not drinking away? #enjoylife #soberposse

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

“Maybe I’ll come” - I’m not coming “I’ll let you know” - I’m not coming “I’m not sure yet” - I’m very sure that I’m not coming “I’ll try and come” - I won’t try anything “I’ll think about it” - I won’t think about anything, I’m not coming

submitted 58 days ago • 30 comments

Seeing all the environmental chaos on the coasts makes me worry about home/car insurance. Companies will recoup costs and budget the risk, & these unprecedented costs can't come solely from the impacted regions. I live somewhere relatively "safe" in the middle. Even so, it's going to be expensive.

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

The correct answer to an employee saying they are unable to come in due to ice and a steep driveway is not "don't we pay you enough for 4-wheel drive?"

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

Look at you! You made it! You mastered the first Monday of 2025! Get yourself some hot chocolate and a cookie to celebrate. You earned it, champ. Poor first Tuesday. It doesn't know you're coming for it next!

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Magnanimous powers that be said we could WFH today, but will need to come in tomorrow. My road is a sheet of ice, and I live at the bottom of a steep hill. Guess I need to learn to ice skate or teleport by tomorrow.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

BEING INVITED TO NOTHING: I’m ever so lonely and nobody cares about me at all BEING INVITED TO ONE THING: omg it never ends with these people

submitted 63 days ago • 57 comments

please stop suggesting I solve my problem by changing my behavior. I do not want to do that

submitted 63 days ago • 212 comments

I'm playing a dangerous game with my car keys. For years my car has told me my key batteries are low and need to be replaced. I've tried, but I can't get the damn door open to replace the battery. Now I think it's all a farce, since they haven't died yet.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

in case YOU needed to hear this today: YOU are not a failure. YOU’RE not a waste of space. YOU are not unloveable. YOUR struggle is temporary. i’m glad YOU are here. YOU can do this.

submitted 64 days ago • 25 comments

"I'm a killer, and a killer is a bad, bad thing to be She's a giver, and a giver's even worse to folks like me" ... "Cause I'm a giver, and a giver is a bad, bad thing to be He's a killer, and a killer's even worse for folks like me..." I love the structure of this song! youtu.be/kihqP4GRxvQ?...

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments