![]() If you start feeling sick or tired without drugs or alcohol in your system, that’s an alarm bell sounding. Your body’s natural drug-free state should feel comfortable. Sober doesn’t feel normal anymore: This is one of the first signs that you might have a problem.Several signs indicate that you’re poised to begin your recovery and get back to a functional lifestyle. That surrender frees up a lot of willpower that was previously dedicated toward making a maladaptive habit work. But eventually, feeling sick and tired of being sick and tired takes priority. We may feel sadness over the anticipated loss of something that once brought us joy. ![]() There’s no shame in outgrowing things that no longer serve us. But ask yourself… is it really that fun anymore, or does it feel more like a chore? Have you considered how much effort you’re expending to make this lifestyle work? Many of us feel that using our drug of choice has become part of our identity. Admitting that getting high or drunk isn’t fun anymore isn’t easy. Starting down the road of recovery (or returning to it) requires a healthy dose of honesty. It might be time to admit that you’re sick and tired of being sick and tired. But eventually, that perpetual fatigue screams its way upstairs. Our bodies recognize feeling perpetually sick and tired before our minds do. That first high is a traitorous apex that, in reality, only leads downhill. But somewhere along the line, our answer to problems somehow became a problem unto itself. Whatever that first high seemed to fix, it trained our brains to recognize our drug of choice as an answer to problems. ![]() Maybe that nagging social anxiety finally went away, or anger at a loved one was forgotten for a while. It’s like a switch got flipped and something clicked into place that we had always been missing. We all remember the first time we used or drank.
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