I seem have this urge to always be doing something productive with the family like at weekends and evenings yet I don't have the energy. ..anyone else experienced something like this?
Im currently 35 days clean and I gambled daily for years, is this just a side effect of abstaining?
Mba
That symptom is familiar all right. I thought it was just a sign of age and a working career, but your guess (side effect of abstaining) is very intriguing.
I seem to always want to be doing something productive with my family and get very annoyed if we're just sitting around doing nothing.
Its like I need to be doing something worthwhile if this is what I'm doing instead of gambling.
Yes I have experienced that kind of thing, you want to feel full of energy and be productive but you just feel lethargic instead. Personally I think it is one of the withdrawal symptoms, you're not feeding your brain with what it is expecting after years of artificial highs and lows. Or maybe you're still adjusting to get a "buzz" from real life rather than gambling.
At the moment my wife is getting all of my attention I used to give to gambling.
She even said how different I am In a good way.
Mba
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