Ever get sick of being sick?

to answer the question posed in thread title :

YES

  sysex said:

  catsonearth said:

have you tried working out at all? i know it sounds counter intuitive, like "dude, i'm feeling tired as fuck, why would i wear myself out even more?", but it actually helps me with that sluggish feeling that i get when i'm kinda depressed and not really wanting to do anything. i used to be the kind of person that would laugh at people who went to the gym and i honestly never even stepped foot into a gym until a few months ago when my office moved to a building with a gym right downstairs that offered us a sick discount. i joined and have been trying to go at least twice a week during my lunch break. so far i feel a lot better physically and mentally...and i feel like i have a lot more energy.

i'm not overweight or anything like that, so it's not really about that - i've just been feeling super lazy for the last few years, getting torn down by life and the day to day grind. part of the reason i bit the bullet and joined the gym was because i felt like i really needed discipline to condition myself to follow through with things even when they're hard, strenuous, inconvenient and sometimes unpleasant without someone telling me i have to do it, instead just doing it for myself. seems like it would be a really good thing, especially if you're someone whose in recovery and trying to form positive habits and all that jazz. it's not always what you want to do and sometimes you'll feel like putting it off, but that's part of the conditioning, that you still follow through and just do it, even when you're not feeling it and in the end you feel better that you did it. i don't know if having liver disease prevents you from working out in any way, but if not, i'd recommend giving it a try if you aren't already. load up an mp3 player with some good music or my personal fav, an audiobook, and just hit the gym for a good 40-50 mins 2 or 3 times a week. might help pep you up a bit. and then you'll be all sexy and ripped and then you'll get all the chicks and shit. win/win.

 

 

/agreed.

 

after consistent use/abuse the mind and body become dependent on those chemicals, especially when it comes to sleeping. i think if you take most any kind of sleep aid or depressant or sedative, beit over-the-counter, or weed, h, alch, etc... for a couple weeks +, you'll have a difficult time sleeping after you stop.

 

usually when i've gone through a case of withdrawals or am going through a detox, i feel like utter crap, lazy, grimy/dirty, restless yet exhausted... sometimes a shower helps for about 20 minutes.

 

but what i've found helps the most is to do what was said above and work in some gym time or pick up some physical activity. i know the longer i sit around not doing anything to worse i start to feel and many times i've been convinced that i'd never feel "better" than how i've felt since all the years of rip'n n runnin. it's like i have to work 10x's as hard to get my mind and body back to where it was and mostly i feel its a losing battle... so i deal the best i can and try keep my mind and body as active as i can...

 

i had an uncle who passed away recently as a result of alcoholism, his liver was more than 50% scarred when he finally became sober... for 5 years he didn't have a drink and managed to do okay mentally and physically for a few years up until his relapse... where 1 month of binge drinking after 5 years of sobriety put him into a coma for 3 weeks and finally death set in.

 

i've been off the h for 10 years now and still feel plagued by what its done to my mind and body... so yeh, even after cleaning up, i still get sick and tired of being sick and tired...

 

anyway...prolly t.m.i.

...grain of salt.

Thats an excellent response I identify with all of that! Sorry to hear about your Uncle. My liver is 75% scarred beyond repair, so a replase for me means death also. I got to get myself doing what everyone has suggested and implement some sort of routinely physical exercise into my life, I get paid on Friday so I'm going to join the gym I think.

Thanks for your salt :).

get hooked on something that's a: nice and b: doesn't fuck your liver.

shisha?

never. i love constantly feeling like shit and pondering cold and lonely existentially athiest fates as i give all of my money to drug empires that treat me like i'm their money their property guaranteed and are afforded a luxurious lifestyle because of my weaknesses whilst i scrape to get by living as a parasitic sponge off of my family and society as a whole.

it builds character, really.

I'd noticed mate.

the three most important things to do to avoid being lazy/lethargic all the time is exercise, proper eating and proper sleeping.

I always find its a huge bitch to get a proper amount of vegetables because of the way fast food is and shit, I just generally don't have time plus I'm super lazy, but laziness breeds laziness, the only way to get over that shit is to get over it, you know.

Keep a well stocked vegetable crisper, if you are really lazy just get shit that you can steam cook in like 15-20 minutes with little to no attending to it. I like broccoli and cauliflower, everytime I get hungry I will boil up a shitload of veggies any day. Plus they actually fill you up unlike junk food.

Drugs and illness certainly can weigh you down but your lifestyle habits have a much stronger impact I think, mainly because they are the aspects of your life that you actually have control over. Alot of people don't realize how crippling it can be to your mood and motivation if you neglect one of the three essential categories.

Remember, proper diet, 8 hours of sleep every night and excercise as much as possible. As far as problems are concerned, just try to remember that everbody has problems some are worse than others but you can't do anything about that, all you can do is work with what you got, and if you can overcome those odds you will actually feel alot prouder than the average joe whos worst problem is they just got dumped.

Thanks for that hauntingsoul, I completely agree, and the only thing I do stick to is the correct diet (when I'm not having a bad day with strong feelings, as often this makes me feel sick). When I say "stick to" I actually can't get 8 hours sleep of a night, no matter how hard I try and this is to do with recovering from the drinking I was doing and can take years, in some cases it will never return to normal, so I just got to hope. And as with the exercise thing I am going to join the gym, but my constant lethargy and drowsiness has been put down to my liver having an mpact on how my entire body works and my body not absorbing and not using all of the nutrients I give it, and not kicking out all of the bad toxins properly like it should becuase nothing in my body is ever filtered correctly, and chemicals are never produced correctly.

shit man i had no idea how bad drinking can be for you.

Lmfao @ all the drunk-ass frat boys who tell me i'm going to die if i keep doing acid

lol