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Hello! Please know you’re not alone. The stress and anxiety of a second dui is awful to be simply put. I’m sorry for the loss of your mother and am here if you ever wanted to talk. I know from my experience there feels like no light at the end of tunnel. I promise there is. I just reached the end of a long process from my second dui and there is hope and you can get through it. It’s hard and challenging, but it was worth getting through. Please feel free to reach out to me or please use one of the other resources posted in the comments. You matter. Your life and your future are worth fighting for.♥️
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Great advice!
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Howd you get through it ?? Thanks for the support
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@js94 I had to get brutally honest with myself about my drinking habits and get help. I was in therapy before I got it due to substance abuse previously. Obviously I had slips from therapy and even after the dui. I am tremendously grateful for my dui because I got pulled over before anybody got hurt. This brings me a great struggle dealing with knowing my actions could have potentially hurt someone, even killed someone. The fact that I got pulled over before that has made me extremely grateful and has brought me a sense of peace. What really helped me was getting put into program through my state where Randoms drug tests were taken . This helped keep me honest with myself and after a year of being sober I saw how much damage I was doing not only to myself but those who love me. This realization hurt, but brought me to the realization if I want to change how I’m affecting others I need to change myself and hold myself accountable. Taking accountability for what you did is the first step in moving forward. Accepting you made a mistake and that there are consequences you now need to face is hard. But it’s possible. I recommend getting a lawyer, possibly one that offers a payment plan when you’re looking if money is tight. I didn’t have one for my first one and I wish I would have. Seeing a therapist and developing a strong support system is important. AA can be great, sometimes maybe try a few different meetings to find what works best for you. I would be happy to be part of your support system if you’d like! Self care and self compassion are EXTREMELY important during this time. I hate self compassion and struggle with it greatly but it is what I needed most during this time. Please feel free to reach out to me anytime with questions or for support or just a chat
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@Kels__ Thank you for your advice. Im glad you r doing better and that I can relate to you. You're doing awesome!
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@Kels__ I can really sense your genuine desire to impart wisdom from your own journey and be a source of support for js94. Well done! And, you just never know who else is reading your posts who might also be suffering from the consequences of alcohol abuse or addiction in their life.
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@Fear Strikes Out Thank you. I struggled with substance abuse and the legal consequences that tend to follow and it was a very difficult time between feeling alone and hopeless. There were too many dark times and having someone who can relate I feel would have helped at least a little.
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@Kels__ If you have instagram or snapchat, can u reach out ? My sc is sobes31 and ig is _sobes
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I think I remember your post about your mom. I’m so sorry. That, on top of the years of OCD, the struggle with alcohol, the legal issues, the money issues—this all sounds really, really difficult.
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But definitely not insurmountable.
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What's your emotional support network look like (family, friends, clergy, etc.)? The sooner you accept personal responsibility for the DUI and accept the legal consequences forthcoming (i.e., punishment that is meted out by the court), the sooner you can put your life on a course that does not involve using alcohol to momentarily numb the uncomfortable emotions you are feeling from the loss of your mom and anything else in your life. I am assuming that you did not physically harm anybody, including yourself. If so, you can take a lot of comfort in that outcome. You will get beyond what has recently happened. But, it will be up to you how you respond from this point forward. One day you might even look back and tell yourself how grateful you are that you did not kill someone. This second DUI could prove to be the catalyst for turning your life around. All the best!!
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Thank you , but no I didn't hurt anyone or myself either time, I am grateful for that
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Sorry to hear friend, I will pray for you know that you matter and your life is worth living. I know sometimes life gets really complicated and the weeds grow and tangle you up but you will make it.
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I’m so sorry I know how hard it is, I mean I’m not in the same exact situation as you but I can feel your pain. Just know this is not the end. You can’t give up. You weren’t meant to exist on earth to suffer and then just die. You have to keep on living keep fighting, you deserve better. Just have hope! If you don’t feel safe please call a suicide/crisis hotline please please.
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This sounds like a really hard time. As others have said, if you are in a crisis please call a crisis line. I know it’s hard, but if it helps, people make it through even the hardest times. You can make it through this. Life is worth fighting for.
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Stay strong, it will get better
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Im here to talk
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Life's just too hard my friends =/
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Please go to your local ER, or call a crisis team. We are all here for you and want you to feel better ❤️ your life can still turn around, so long as you are here to live it. Mine did.
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@Lunetta What happened to you
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This is killing me slowly day by day, im a straight female 20 years old, i started getting hocd after a break up with an ex and coming off intense use of 🍁🍃 for a few years on and off, i think it has messed up my brain so bad… my hocd is weird because ive been with men my whole life always wanted to be with men.. i also used to always question every relationship “do i love him? Does he love me? Am I with the right person?” Anyways after my hocd triggered my tocd due to researching hocd and finding they can often be linked, I started getting tocd and it’s worse then ever because it’s not who I want to be and I’m going back to situations where my abusive ex partner called me a “man” during a fight. I’ve always been a tomboy but never had same sex attraction. Help. This is killing me. I haven’t been able to study or leave the house most days, and work! I’ve lost motivation for everything and I’m in a dark hole. I need some success stories please
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I'm currently at one of the lowest points with my OCD despite me working so hard on it and everything that I know it stems from because a lot of my OCD comes from trauma from sexual abuse as a kid and as I got older and a lot of other stuff which is also why I have Complex PTSD. I was doing so well, I started medication, and I was in this dual housing program for treatment and everything was going okay. That was until I ended up getting SA’D by a man there and none of the staff cared or did anything despite me doing everything possible and gathering all of this evidence and all the people there either didn't care or bullied me relentlessly as they laughed with my abuser. It was so painful and I felt so alone. I think what triggered my spiral was that it was very similar to the reactions of my past assaults and thus my OCD came spiralling alongside my C-PTSD symptoms and I feel like it is worse then before. I left that place but its still absolutely terrible and I feel so hopeless and hurt. Not only did this man hurt me like I have been in the past he brought back the very thing that caused me so many years of suffering. It makes me sick. I don't want to think these thoughts or feel these horrible urges and sensations. I feel so disgusting and broken.
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Hi,im a fourteen years old girl. I live in a homophobic country,and i dont have any experience. I grew up and became homophobic just like my family and my religion.but in 13 year old.i was questioning why lgptq is illegal?while they are just being them and can’t select what they are? So..i became an agnostic or atheist by secret.oh,by addition,before i became atheist i was making sure i don’t like women,like looking at women pics and imagine some romantic or sexual senarios just to find out,(and i wasnt feel anything and didnt like them),and i was happy and comfort for being straight (i was liking fictional men and some actors,within experience except an online male friend i liked but we didn’t date).but after being atheist,its like fire,i start developing HOCD,im not officially have that because I can’t have a therapist,but i have the Symptoms 100%. I didnt know whats hocd ,i find out whats it before a month.when i was struggling with it like 7 months,so,i think it started when i was in very close friendship with a girl in school,i was confused.if i liked her or not,i was imagining,questioning,making scenarios,but i couldnt have an answer,but then i was comfort to keep it just friendship.when the questions about her go,i can see her normally as a friend and i dont think of her or text her every day and it sometimes reaches months in summer holidays and its normally to me,no romantic acts about her,but then i had a new friend to the group and i had the same thoughts and questions to her.and now my brain questioning if i like them both😢.ok.this gone.this is before year,before being atheist.after being.i was questioning “do i like women?” Or when i see a fictional woman,i start to look at her and questioning myself and try to catch any feeling,i swear i would accept myself to be gay or bisexual,but i just can’t feel or accept that..i feel like burn.i cried and cried.it somedays turns so hard that I can’t even study or live normally.i also started to lose my attraction to men.i feel like its gone,I can’t now imagine being a man without getting uncomfortable,i miss the days when i was enjoying imagining kissing and sexing with a man.but,hocd,always reminds me i have no experience,and its all imaginary,so I don’t have a real clue from beginning that im straight.and i also read an girl experience with hocd and she became a lesbian at the end,i get so scary.it feels so real.i just wanna cry forever.im afraid that i will like a girl in the future,it chock me and burns.i hate this feeling.to thr god i dont know or believe in,please,if i like women,just let me feel it normally without this fear and hurting.i dont want to be gay.i dont want to like women.i dont want to be bisexual or lesbian.but if being any of those but comfort without this feeling that makes me wanna suicide.i would accept,please.just please,i even can’t get a therapist,even online,i just want help.please.i dont want to be like those girls that find out they liked women all the time,im scared,i miss my old feelings and trusting.i hate this.i just want to die if its mean hocd to go.i feel like its so real and i will love a girl no way in hell future.i even feel its not wrong to like women,like its much better and more soft that men,but i just can’t.I can’t.i dont know,i did everything.i gave myself permission to find out or explore my attraction to the both genders but it hurts me more.i dont want to get hurts again anymore.just remembering i have no experience or clue i like men even if in past felt like i would like and date a man and liven with him,i keep reminding its all was Based on imagination…even if i was wishing to love a man,hocd ruined this peaceful feeling,i was really find peaceful of loving a man.but now,i don’t feel like before,and this scares me,i don’t know what to do.I can’t have a therapist,and dont even know how to get better,,,
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