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OfflineSocrateshroom
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TODAY (7/17) is 90 days sober from alcohol! Thank you TPE and everyone here! Come read my story! * 1
    #26826710 - 07/16/20 10:37 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

This is a loooong story of the most important experience of my life, my first mushroom trip, and the subsequent changes that took place. It directly lead me to further explore the mushroom and to finding this community.

If you read it all you get a :justastonishing:


So, I wanted to share some this story with you, my good friends and give thanks to the community and the sacred mushroom as well.

Disclaimer: This is a story that is subjective to me. I am not demonizing anyone for their consumption of alcohol or any other drugs. Although I've come to the conclusion that alcohol is inherently unhealthy, I maintain my belief in personal choice. But mainly, this is a story that has lead me to a multitude of transformations, not least of which is, hopefully, my continuing abstinence from alcohol..

Introduction:

So I've been drinking for close to 8 years. The first 4 or so of those years was pretty heavily. It started when I had turned 21 and alcohol was this novel thing. But I grew up around alcoholism (it has ravaged many in my immediate family) and so I wasn't afraid of drinking copious amounts.

So my spiral began, down into the rabbit hole of getting obliterated weekly (sometimes multiple times a week). The first few times was "experimentation". But of course, there isn't much to experience when you're constantly blacking/browning out. So the "experimentation" phase quickly gave way to the "suppress the suffering of my life with alcohol" phase.

And it didn't help that my friends were getting absolutely demolished with me. So for about 4 years straight, I was getting destroyed regularly. And when I wasn't drunk of my ass, I was still drinking just to maintain some level of sanity.

Obviously this took a toll on my overall well-being. So I slowed down. Not completely by some noble choice but because the hangovers were making me so sick I couldn't function.

There I was, reflecting on myself, realizing years of alcohol abuse had left me utterly alone in every sense of the word. The world was a menacing place and now even the drinking wasn't enough.

My first trip:
Part 1 - The getting there

So, at around 25 years of age, depressed, angry and jaded with life, I was thinking the only escape was to end it. I was drinking a lot less at this point but still drinking multiple times a week.

But I though "If i'm going out, it's going to be after doing something where I challenge myself. I didn't want my life to end, whether by my hand or the cosmic plan, without showing to myself that I can put myself out there in the world.

So, without thinking about it, I went through the whole process of buying tickets for myself and a friend to Burning Man. I arranged to get a good vehicle as I wanted to drive there from the East Coast, as that was part of the adventure for me.

I spent the next few months planning, slowly getting what's needed. I reveled in the upcoming trip. My life felt like it had meaning. And so, time flew by without as much suffering. The day came and off we went.

It was an incredible drive. Stressful, tiring and, at times, aggravating.

Had to hide at a rest stop from a tornado in Ohio.

Wyoming winds were so bad that they almost tore the crap we had strapped to the top of the car.

Utah had the steepest hill I've ever driven on and it was weird watching trucks barreling down the highway. It looked like they were just free falling.

Nevada looked like an episode from COPS. Police flying by constantly.

Then, at around midnight, after almost 3 days of driving, we got to the line for Burning Man. It was longer than I could imagine. It would take us the next 10 hours to get the couple miles to the gates of the festival itself. Running on very little sleep, I was arguing with my friend like crazy. I was unbelievably cranky.

We get to the gate. Some people are having their cars searched to make sure no one is being illegally smuggled in. The man assigned to our vehicle walks up to the driver window, greets us and asks if it's our first time here. Tired, almost tripping from sleep deprivation at this point, and unbelievably excited to be at the threshold, I excitedly jumped out of my seat and nodded with approval. He smiled with excitement and said "First timer, yea! You'll be back!". He motioned us on ahead to the greeter at the gate.

The greeter, having received the message from his cohort that we were first timers, got us out of the vehicle and gave use each a welcoming hug. He said it was tradition for first timers to lay in the sand at the gate and do some "snow angels". My friend resisted but I was all in. After all, I thought this was my final dance on this chaotic cosmic rock.

My first trip:
Part 2 - A dwelling in the desert

So we were driving around the various areas where one can park and set-up camp. Although we were early, plenty of others were earlier than us so it seemed like everything was full. We wanted to be on the edge of the camping area, as far away from the "action" as we can so that we can have peace when it came time to sleep. We found an area in the back. Directly behind us was the border separating the festival from the empty desert.

My initial high from getting here faded and my crankiness returned. I fought with my friend a bot too much and everything seemed to piss me off. So we got our tent up as fast as possible. We met a neighbor who was a few spaces away from us (who we never saw again after). They gifted us some alcohol and we gracefully accepted. With our tent and shade set-up, I hit the bed while my friend relaxed outside.

After a few hours of sleep, new neighbors were showing up. A group of young women to our left set-up camp. They did not greet us (and would end up staying only another day before they packed up and left). Directly in front of us a pair of guys set up their camp. They greeted us and had a quick chat before they went to take, what I assume to be, a well needed sleep. We would end up spending the festival together and have our first mushroom trip with them.

We did some exploring of the playa (the name given to the area designated as Burning Man). I've never seen such a beautiful place. We walked around the camps and to the center. Most of the structures had not been finished yet so we went back to our camp. Someone new arrived in our area and set-up his tent directly between us and the neighbors that we had met a few hours prior. This would end up being the person who facilitated the trip for myself, my friend, and the two neighbors we had met prior.

My first trip:
Part 3 - On the cusp of the room

There was a lot of exploration that happened in the following days.

I got stuck in a few sandstorms while at the center and had to hunker down in place (they're called whiteouts and you literally can't see a foot in front of you). It was awesome to experience.

We explored the structures that they had built. A weird house with bridges from room to room. A pyramind. A temple where you would hang up pictures, poems, stories, etc of those you had lost recently.

We even went to the opposite edge of the festival where there was a dispensing machine that gave you a small "Edge of the world" patch.

That night, with our neighbors, we walked the empty desert beyond the festival that was behind our settlement (so this was myself, my friend, the pair of guys in front of our camp and the guy that settled in between our camps, 5 of us in total). We got to know each other a bit more and grew a bond that would be paramount to the coming experience (we did not yet know that the neighbor that had arrived between our camps was to facilitate a mind-changing experience).

The next night the five of us went out on the town. It was a wild party full of drinking, exploring the art cars, dancing on a stage while a bunch of people watched us. It was a wild party and, as much as I could pull the vivid memories of it, I think it's main role in the story was to bring our group closer together.

The next day we just rested and hung out at camp. At night our soon to be facilitator told us of the plans for the next day. He had brought encapsulated mushrooms and wanted to have all five of us experience it.

I was shocked. One of the reasons I wanted to go to Burning Man was to find mushrooms. I always wanted to try them. And here, the universe had delivered to me exactly what I wanted (or more accurately, needed).
So we set up all of our stuff for the experience in the tent of the other pair of guys since their tent was the largest out of everyone's.

That night our guide took us on a meditative trip through the structures that stood at the center of the playa. We walked in meditative silence from our camps to the temple. We took time to sit or kneel in the temple as hundreds of people passed in and out, all making their offerings and prayers to their lost loved ones. This really put us in a space of loving awareness. We walked through a few more structures, maintaining silence and a distance between each other to create our own personal space. After a while of this, we made our way back the the tent where our lives would fundamentally change.

I get goosebumps writing this. This single experience pulled me from the depths of absolute despair.

My first trip:
Part 4 - The space that grants wishes

We sat in the tent, the first words spoken in hours. Our guide took out the mushrooms capsules and asked each of us separately, as he handed the dose to us, if we still want to go through with this. Everyone nodded as they were handed their dose. I, sitting at the far end, was handed my dose last. Anxiety and excitement rushed over me. I had a brief though "how can I trust some random guy I just met a few days ago with some strange pills". But, he did a good job facilitating trust between us all. Plus, I was in such a state of despair before I got to Burning Man that I figured "Nothing can be worse than the life I've been living anyway". So that suspicious thought quickly faded and as I grabbed my dose, I nodded my head in approval. We all swallowed our 12 pills, the equivalent we were told was 3g.

It hit me first, and I started laughing at the top of my lungs. I don't know what it was but, internally, I felt so amused with my life and the world. The one light we had hanging by the entrance was dimmed and off we went.

As I closed my eyes, the first CEVs started flooding in. I was strapped into a one man rocket at shot into space. I arrived at a giant golden door flanked by two golden statues. The statues were topped with buddha figures that had elephant features and were holding pikes. The door cracked open and I was flooded with feeling. I started to weep. The issue that came to my mind was the resentment I harbored towards my parents, especially my father. It was the first time in a long time that I felt compassion for them. I realized that the resentment I harbored had strained the relationship between us greatly. And the mushrooms told me "You are not your father". I finally came to realize that I am not my father. I do not need to repeat his bad behaviors and habits. I could be better than him. But I also realized that it wasn't his fault. He had a rough life and did the best he could with the harsh conditions he faced. And although he was never there for me emotionally, he worked like a mad man just to make sure we had more than he had, growing up in relative poverty.

I could finally let go of the resentment. I was finally free of the pain. And perhaps, I could become a better son now.

The trip spent most of its time working out those knots. When I opened my eyes, insane fractals filled my view. Although I had smoked weed for years before this experience, nothing could have prepared me for the novelty of it all. I put on some Tool as the more emotional bits faded and just rode this feeling of being. I was finally home.

The next morning, the afterglow was just as life changing. We emerged from our individual cocoons of thought, left the tent in the early morning, looked at each other and smiled in silence. In that moment we could feel the temporal, irrevocable connection that we had made between each other. Time would stand still here forever, even when we, inevitably, returned to the turmoil of our separate lives.

My first trip:
Part 5 - And so the stars returned to light the night sky

We had a couple of days left in the desert and enjoyed the festival.

Then came the day to depart. My friend and I left a day early as we had a loooong drive back to the east coast. We gathered together for a final picture with our group, a reminder of a journey that would restructure each of us. Then my friend and I hoped into my car and off we went.

The drive was less enjoyable as we rushed to get home. We drove straight through each night just to be home as soon as possible. Our need for civilized plumbing was roaring :hehehe:

And so we were home.

I was torn in two. There was the part of me that was steeped in despair. But now something new formed to challenge it. This part of me was ready to face the challenges of life head on. It new that suffering existed and that I had occupied it to much for too long. But how can I walk away from life when experiences like the one I had at Burning Man existed.

Thus, as Ram Dass once said, it was time for me to "Make friends with change".

My first trip:
Part 6 - The years after, culminating today

The years following my desert adventures were waves of highs and lows. I made lots of progress and regressed at times. (Although I feel my progress was a net positive). I curtailed my drinking but I still drank a couple of beers weekly (and had a few binges, although much less frequent than before).

I went back to university and finished my degree (I had put it off, a consequence of my despair).

I made as much peace with my parents as I could.

I pursued meaningful romantic relationships.

I had a couple of years where I didn't think about mushrooms. I just lived my life. That first trip kept me going for a long time.
But then, I started feeling the calling. No one I knew had any access to them. And again, the universe introduced me to someone who could get them for me. But they were improperly dried (I didn't know at the time) and weak. They looked weird and, because I didn't trust them, I took smaller doses (1g then 2g a few days later) and felt just about nothing.
The yearning remained, however. But I did not want to purchase them again. I wanted to grow them myself. I had remembered this site, which I ran into years prior while reading up about weed. I thought this site was cool then but had no use for it and so I forgot about it.

The rest is history. I started my first grow right away after returning here. It yielded enough for a handful of trips. Myself and a friend took 3g each shortly after my first grow. It did not reach the same proportions of my first trip but it refreshed my memory as to the spaces beyond ordinary consciousness.

Going along with the growing and the experimenting came the people here. You guys have given me unbelievable advice. Comforted me when I needed it. Made me laugh and even cry. I've had great discussions here and its made me a better person. I still struggle but I'm getting a better grip on it all.

Thank you to all of you. I don't want to start listing names as I don't want to miss anyone, and there are a great many of you that I owe my thanks to.



Tomorrow, for the first time in my life since I turned 21, I will be 90 consecutive days free of any and all alcohol (I've never been more than 30 days before and that was just a result of circumstance at the time). I could not have reached this point without all of you. And, although I'm a little under the weather, if I feel better tomorrow, I will take a trip with some APEs to celebrate!


I love you all,

Shroomery

:loveheart:


Edited by Socrateshroom (07/17/20 09:16 AM)


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Re: Tomorrow will be 90 days sober from alcohol! Thank you TPE and everyone here! Come read my story! [Re: Socrateshroom]
    #26826715 - 07/16/20 10:41 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Congratulations my friend. I've seen alcohol destroy many of my friends, glad you made it out the other side. :emotionalmoment:


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Re: Tomorrow will be 90 days sober from alcohol! Thank you TPE and everyone here! Come read my story! [Re: Socrateshroom] * 1
    #26826739 - 07/16/20 10:52 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Love back at you, Socrateshroom, you’re a really decent human being.

I can’t believe you got so much from one mushroom trip, and didn’t think about them for years. I do believe you, just figure of speech stuff! I say that comparing to myself, but accepting that I was not ready to end my life when I took my first mushrooms. Although I had already been depressed for over ten years, I didn’t realise it, nor was I diagnosed, for a further 20 years!

So I took mushrooms to satisfy intellectual curiosity. I hit the part of the peak where everything stands still, right before you start to come back down, and felt like I’d arrived home. It was what I’d been searching for my entire life. So I was immediately obsessed with mushrooms, and with LSD, and without today’s abundance of knowledge, I went a bit OTT over the next 2 years. I ended with the classic “acid eyes”, we used to call it the 1000 yard stare! I’ve been on a healing journey ever since those days.

Thank you for sharing,
DJ Ed


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Re: Tomorrow will be 90 days sober from alcohol! Thank you TPE and everyone here! Come read my story! [Re: Socrateshroom]
    #26826757 - 07/16/20 11:00 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

I struggled with daily drinking for the majority of my 20s, and, during my first trip, wept for all the time and memories I'd wasted, for every day waking up full of poison and spitting hate, for making my chronically ill wife drag me in off the back patio or leave me sick at night on the couch while she laid alone in bed. Never again, man.  Mushrooms showed me what it could feel like to be free on the inside and to love things from a place in my heart I'd lost contact with amidst the constant cycles of escape and hangover. Great post! It's always good to reflect on this stuff with others who have experienced the same and celebrate our ongoing liberation together.


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Re: Tomorrow will be 90 days sober from alcohol! Thank you TPE and everyone here! Come read my story! [Re: Socrateshroom]
    #26826762 - 07/16/20 11:03 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Very cool story.I love the medicine that mushrooms are! Congratulations on the 90 days sober but, as a recovered alcoholic, I can tell you to never let up with your affirmation. Do not for a minute think that you can drink normally again...you have burned that bridge.
The old saying is that we are closer to our next drink than we are to our last. Just don't take that first drink and you'll be fine. Remember that it is much easier to stay away from the first drink than it is the second.:sunny::peace:


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Re: Tomorrow will be 90 days sober from alcohol! Thank you TPE and everyone here! Come read my story! [Re: Socrateshroom]
    #26826780 - 07/16/20 11:11 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

I didn’t know that about you until today, but I’m really happy to hear it Socrateshroom, and I’m in a similar boat ⛵️ so know that you’re not alone.  I’ve always appreciated your cool-headed input around these parts.  And I swear I could’ve almost written some of those trips!  very relatable.

I’m grateful for fungi medicine, you, and this community too.  90 days is a great place, keep it up the good works brother. :thumbup:


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Re: Tomorrow will be 90 days sober from alcohol! Thank you TPE and everyone here! Come read my story! [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #26826800 - 07/16/20 11:21 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

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Tmethyl said:
Congratulations my friend. I've seen alcohol destroy many of my friends, glad you made it out the other side. :emotionalmoment:




Thank you! Although I've restructured the way I look at alcohol, I don't think I'm on the other side per say. But I will continue to work on walking this path. :cheers:

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Love back at you, Socrateshroom, you’re a really decent human being.

I can’t believe you got so much from one mushroom trip, and didn’t think about them for years. I do believe you, just figure of speech stuff! I say that comparing to myself, but accepting that I was not ready to end my life when I took my first mushrooms. Although I had already been depressed for over ten years, I didn’t realise it, nor was I diagnosed, for a further 20 years!

So I took mushrooms to satisfy intellectual curiosity. I hit the part of the peak where everything stands still, right before you start to come back down, and felt like I’d arrived home. It was what I’d been searching for my entire life. So I was immediately obsessed with mushrooms, and with LSD, and without today’s abundance of knowledge, I went a bit OTT over the next 2 years. I ended with the classic “acid eyes”, we used to call it the 1000 yard stare! I’ve been on a healing journey ever since those days.

Thank you for sharing,
DJ Ed




DJ! Thanks for reading, always look forward to your input. I guess I got so much out of my first trip because I was almost as low as I could go. So the only way forward at that point was back up.

And taking these substances for intellectual curiosity is just as important as the reasons why I took it. We are all one experience, labelled differently, after all. Love you man, glad to be walking the healing journey with you.

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I struggled with daily drinking for the majority of my 20s, and, during my first trip, wept for all the time and memories I'd wasted, for every day waking up full of poison and spitting hate, for making my chronically ill wife drag me in off the back patio or leave me sick at night on the couch while she laid alone in bed. Never again, man.  Mushrooms showed me what it could feel like to be free on the inside and to love things from a place in my heart I'd lost contact with amidst the constant cycles of escape and hangover. Great post! It's always good to reflect on this stuff with others who have experienced the same and celebrate our ongoing liberation together.




Wow man, great to hear you turned the corner. Thank you for sharing your plight, it makes me realize that I'm not alone here. To our continuing liberation :cheers: (there's mushroom juice in that wine glass :hehehe:).

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Very cool story.I love the medicine that mushrooms are! Congratulations on the 90 days sober but, as a recovered alcoholic, I can tell you to never let up with your affirmation. Do not for a minute think that you can drink normally again...you have burned that bridge.
The old saying is that we are closer to our next drink than we are to our last. Just don't take that first drink and you'll be fine. Remember that it is much easier to stay away from the first drink than it is the second.:sunny::peace:




Absolutely. I hold no intimations of being free from this to a degree where I can let my guard down completely. And I know not to believe that I've won as arrogance will be my downfall if I do that.

But being 90 days sober has restructured the way I view alcohol. I no longer notice every single liquor store as I drive home from work. I no longer have to stop and wrestle with myself whether I should go into a liquor store just because I saw one. It's just the first step in what I hope is a lifetime of continued sobriety, but a big step nonetheless.

Thank you for reading and for your input! Always good to be reminded by those further along the journey than me so that I may keep my ego in check. :heart:

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I didn’t know that about you until today, but I’m really happy to hear it Socrateshroom, and I’m in a similar boat ⛵️ so know that you’re not alone.  I’ve always appreciated your cool-headed input around these parts.  And I swear I could’ve almost written some of those trips!  very relatable.

I’m grateful for fungi medicine, you, and this community too.  90 days is a great place, keep it up the good works brother. :thumbup:




Thanks for reading! Honestly, reading your wisdom is, most of the time, transcendental to me. I'm convinced you're a transcendent being :hehehe: Thanks for everything, not just directed to me, but all of your advice on these forums. You've helped me expand my openness and wisdom. And your quips with DJ ED are always a good time!

As glad as it is to see that I'm not alone, it hurts to know that others have to suffer in similar ways. But I'm glad you're doing well as well. :heart:


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Re: Tomorrow will be 90 days sober from alcohol! Thank you TPE and everyone here! Come read my story! [Re: Socrateshroom]
    #26827116 - 07/16/20 02:36 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

This was a nice read, I'm happy it was such a profound thing in your life with such good consequences ~


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Re: Tomorrow will be 90 days sober from alcohol! Thank you TPE and everyone here! Come read my story! [Re: MindMeower]
    #26827316 - 07/16/20 04:10 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Congratulations on the milestone!  And thanks for sharing such a personal story!


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    #26827379 - 07/16/20 04:38 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Again, great read!  Thanks for sharing :cheers:

Do check in and let me know if you trip or if you don’t trip tomorrow.


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Re: Tomorrow will be 90 days sober from alcohol! Thank you TPE and everyone here! Come read my story! [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #26827394 - 07/16/20 04:49 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

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Again, great read!  Thanks for sharing :cheers:

Do check in and let me know if you trip or if you don’t trip tomorrow.




:heart:

Of course!

I’ve been having some respiratory issues the last few days, some breathing issues, so if that persists tomorrow I’ll hold off on tripping. But if it’s just my allergies and I can get them under control by tomorrow I’ll blast off!


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Re: Tomorrow will be 90 days sober from alcohol! Thank you TPE and everyone here! Come read my story! [Re: Socrateshroom]
    #26827495 - 07/16/20 05:45 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

I am looking forward to reading this in its entirety.  Thanks for posting this, Socrates.  Shrooms have also helped me overcome and stay away from some serious demons.


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Re: Tomorrow will be 90 days sober from alcohol! Thank you TPE and everyone here! Come read my story! [Re: Socrateshroom]
    #26827942 - 07/16/20 10:29 PM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Great story with such a positive spin.  Behold the power of the shroom! :shroomhead:


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    #26828342 - 07/17/20 07:24 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

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I am looking forward to reading this in its entirety.  Thanks for posting this, Socrates.  Shrooms have also helped me overcome and stay away from some serious demons.




:heart: Never gets old hearing how magical these substances are to most people who pursue them meaningfully.

Hope you enjoy reading my adventure!

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Great story with such a positive spin.  Behold the power of the shroom! :shroomhead:




Thanks for reading! :heart: I've got an unbelievable amount of respect for you. Hope to reach your level of wisdom one day :heart:


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Re: Tomorrow will be 90 days sober from alcohol! Thank you TPE and everyone here! Come read my story! [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #26828349 - 07/17/20 07:29 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

So, I feel a bit better today and if it remains this way, I plan on continuing my experimentation with my APEs.

I took 0.5g twice (once a few months ago and another last week). The trips easily felt like 2g of regular cubes.

So I figured I'd make a poll on what my peers think I should do for my next experience with em.
How much APEs should I take?
You may choose only one


Votes accepted from (12/31/69 05:00 PM) to (No end specified)
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Edited by Socrateshroom (07/17/20 07:29 AM)


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Re: Tomorrow will be 90 days sober from alcohol! Thank you TPE and everyone here! Come read my story! [Re: Socrateshroom]
    #26828351 - 07/17/20 07:32 AM (3 years, 6 months ago)

Messed up the poll above and can't seem to edit it so here we go:
How much APEs should I take?
Users may choose only one (4 total votes)
1g
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1 25%
1.5g
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3 75%
Votes accepted from (07/16/20 12:00 PM) to (07/17/20 02:32 PM)
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Re: Tomorrow will be 90 days sober from alcohol! Thank you TPE and everyone here! Come read my story! [Re: Socrateshroom]
    #27067951 - 12/02/20 10:26 AM (3 years, 1 month ago)

Almost 8 months sober!!

Keeping strong, luckily.

How's everyone doing?


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Re: Tomorrow will be 90 days sober from alcohol! Thank you TPE and everyone here! Come read my story! [Re: Socrateshroom]
    #27068502 - 12/02/20 03:41 PM (3 years, 1 month ago)

You’re an inspiration, Socrateshroom

I’ve gone the other way during lockdown! I’ve worked away from home for years, and I never drank while working, so when I got home for a few days my wife and I would celebrate, drinking and getting stoned, chilling to sounds and chatting. Came home in March due to lockdown, and at first it was a novelty so got a bottle of wine. But this has carried on every night since coming home! I think I need to stop. Completely. I’m giving it some thought. And cannabis. And nicotine. Life is too precious


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