Exclusive Feature Serial on www.thisisUll.com Part Two - Diaries From Detox Continued from Part One - Alcohol Awareness.

Day 2

The unit is small but fairly cosy with three 'clients'. The major problem is the lack of facilities and range of things to do. There is a gym which I shall make good use of. Another bonus is that I have adopted the mantle of CD maestro - dance music all the way! I feel extremely tired but also incredibly restless and slightly 'hyper'. My poor body doesn't know what's hit it. 7.30pm and I'm too tired to write or to concentrate on anything.

Day 3

Awoke at 6.25am (by mistake), was administered 30mg Librium and then zonked until 9.30. Was then visited by various doctors and my Keyworker to assess my progress. Feeling OK but spaced out. Concentration very poor but Glen, Kevin and I are becoming a close knit group. The common threads of our various addictions bind us together. Gym in the afternoon. I pushed myself to the limit and it felt good. I even started to feel that maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel. I quite like being sober! However, the total highlight of my day is choosing the menu. This takes up to an hour and gives me immense fulfilment. Sad, eh? We all then attempted a game of Scrabble. Apparently, since I played so many years ago, the rules have changed. Glen thinks you just make up any word and it counts. What a nobhead! I retired at 11.30, exhausted. continued below..

Alcohol Awareness continued Part Two - Diaries From Detox

Day 4

A strange day. Hurrah! A full nights sleep. Up at 8.30 and by 9.30, in the gym (please see the normal, average day of an alcohol dependant). Only 20mg of Librium but I have decided exercise is the key. Only a few cravings until I received a phone call from a certain person telling me I was on my own and there would be no support from His corner. I shall not mention the expletives which went through my head. There is a direct correlation between cravings and stress. Oh, I wanted that bottle of wine but had a tablet and talked instead to my new buds.

I then proceeded to shoot myself in the foot. Told the nurse I was devastated in order to get a lovely Librium. She then told the Crisis Assessment Team that I ought to go on suicide watch in the Acute Psychiatric Unit next door with all the 'nutters'! Oh my God! Did I do a big 'Blair U-Turn'! Last time I try to wangle prescription drugs. In general, my body is suffering the equivalent of a firework display. My emotions change from hour to hour but I know this will settle down in days/weeks/months - I bloody hope not years. Here endeth today unless something truly dynamic happens ..

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