06/18/2026
It had been a really hard, really long day.
I was super emotional - everything just felt like too much. Have you ever been there? And I couldn’t even tell you why. Nothing had really happened. But I was at a point where I felt like I just couldn’t cope with life.
I was a few months sober.
Long enough to know how to get through a hard night without drinking.
But even though I had no intention of drinking, I still felt utterly and completely overwhelmed. Like I was drowning in emotions I couldn’t explain. It felt like I could barely breathe.
I had been doing the whole alcohol-free thing for long enough to know that the thing to do was reach out to someone that I could talk to. But I couldn’t do it.
I thought about it.
I didn’t want to just sit in whatever it was all by myself. But the thoughts that kept coming up stopped me from picking up the phone.
“I should be able to handle this - there’s not even anything actually wrong!”
“There’s nothing anyone can do or say that’s going to make whatever this feeling is stop anyway, so why bother?”
And the loudest one of all: “I don’t need to burden someone else with my problems.”
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