You're listening to season six of the Recovery Happy Hour podcast.

Are you ready? Hold on to your headphones. Let's do this. Hi everyone,

Hi everyone.

Hi everyone, welcome to Recovery Happy Hour where we talk about life beyond

the bottle and what happens after we stop drinking I'm your host Tricia and

I apologize for this very delayed episode but I thank you for

joining me. So I live in Texas and we have been buried under snow and ice all week

which has literally kept me away from my recording equipment.

So I am, again, so sorry for the delay, but I had no way to put out that episode.

If you listen closely, you might hear my neighbor scraping ice off their front porch or if you

hear a giant banging sound that's just my heater that's just my heater doing its

thing. Welcome to my life. All right on today today's introduction, I'm going to answer your questions, the listeners that you

submitted to me via social media, so let's get right into this.

The first is, I've been sober for almost 40 days. How long do post-acute

withdrawal symptoms last? All right, so I'm going to refer to post-acute

withdrawal symptoms as pause and in your first couple of weeks of not

drinking your body is going to go through a lot of physical withdrawal this is called

acute withdrawal but a little further down the line, some people experience pause, which is when your

brain is kind of recalibrating itself after an active addiction.

So pause symptoms typically involve more of a psychological and emotional aspect of withdrawal.

This can be spontaneous crying or fits of anger that usually don't make sense for the situation you're in.

Long story short, your moods are all over the place and they feel uncontrollable and it's

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