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by Alis-Aquilae » Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:21 pm
I have been getting out of my house for a couple of months now. I have a job that I go to a few days a week and I have been doing okay whilst I am there.
I am wondering if the behaviors, thoughts, feelings that we experience are similar to that of an addict. I have heard of addicts switching addictions. When they quit drinking or doing drugs, they pick up cigarettes and coffee majorly bad.
I say all of that as a preface to what I have been experiencing. Now that I have been getting out of the house, I have noticed that I have sometimes (not always) swung in the total opposite direction. I will be out and be afraid to come home out of fear that I will not leave again. I have found myself just sitting somewhere and doing nothing while out, just in order to not go home. I think maybe sometimes in situations that are not the most safe.
Has anyone else experienced this?
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by Zyphyr » Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:54 pm
I would so I have experienced it. I whenever I do get the strength to keep a job I to keep a job I always fear losing it because it means going back to being housebound. I hate being housebound but sometimes you get stuck that way and then it becomes scary to go out. Then while you are out it is scary to lose your reasons to stay out to stay out. I'm paranoid either way it seems.
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