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Hi guys ,
I am in a US project in Accenture.We have long calls in the night timings. My other teammate has backed out saying she won't attend any calls as she got some medical condition so she won't attend long calls which extend till 9:30.Other teammate is a junior.The managers are expecting me to join all the calls.No help I am getting. And they all being Tamil, I think some partiality is going on between them.Even our onsite lead is of no use.She expects me to attend long calls.
What should I do .pls suggest?
What is your companies medical insurance like?
I think my company has not so good insurance but that’s just compared to friends I know that work down at the docks/port.
Current medical plan - single person.
plan is level 2 out of 3 tiers.
$97 a month blue anthem ppo
$1700 deductible
$4000 out of pocket max
100% preventive covered
80% diagnostic covered AFTER deductible hit
80% prescription covered AFTER $200 deductible hit…
Thinking about having surgery for my knee and this seems costly
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I've spent a lot of time working on and thinking about this specific issue with my therapist and sober coach. I was very much not sober in 2020, but here is the strategy I've worked up: (1) limit news sources (for me, it's reading the Times and listening to the Daily), (2) double down on self care and meditation, (3) do not engage, under any circumstance, in political discussions on-line, whether social media or otherwise, (4) volunteer in impactful ways.
Just know we’ve historically been in even worse situations before and came out of it over time ok. Also remember the serenity prayer to help.
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It sounds as though you have an abnormally high amount of selfish and self-centered fear, a key trait that many alcoholics, myself included, share.
You are likely overestimating how politics will impact you in the near future as well as overestimating your ability to impact politics. Serious question: Did all of this fear do anything positive for you in 2020?
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My wife's wealthy parents lost everything when the USSR collapsed, yet today, they are happy, healthy, and provided for, albeit with a very different looking life in terms of outward appearances.
I am under no delusion that this can't happen here, but I also see how little control I have over any of it. I have faith that I will make the best of whatever future comes, and I have no thoughts on what that future is "supposed" to look like.
The root of your problem is that you think you know best, and you apparently have immense fear that you aren't going to get what you want/deserve. It's straight out of the Big Book.
Say that serenity prayer a lot and remember what is not in your control. Perhaps try volunteering - I lived in Philadelphia at the time (last Presidential general election) and did phone based voter outreach through an organization for Arizona and New Hampshire, I found it helped somewhat to know I was doing "something". Whatever you do, don't pick up: it's not worth it.
This is a perfect example of why we don't talk politics in the rooms.
You can’t talk politics in the rooms but you can talk about having issues with control (step 2/3) and fear and anxiety (step 2/3) also there could be ego involved (thinking you’re opinion is more influential than it is) - if you haven’t ready page 417 in the big book - acceptance is the answer to all my problems today as well as the part about Shakespeares play I recommend you do
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Yea I love that passage - this particular issue is a struggle for me, and the steps haven’t helped. I’m not sure what the answer is which is why I posed the question. Appreciate the thoughtful comment 🙌🏼
tell us who you want to vote for. that will help ✨
Ha it was a JoKe to lighten it all. Here for all of you and us. I don’t need to know who you’re voting for unless you want to DM me then we can raggge against the machine 😉
Sober through several election cycles now. I’m in AA and there’s a passage in the 12 and 12 about not putting the world’s problems on our shoulders. That helps. I also try to remember humility and what I can change versus what I can’t. I can decide to not watch all the news or spiral or hate on people with different ideologies I can try to practice kindness and being helpful to others.
Drinking because of politics is like peeing on myself when it’s cold outside: yeah it might change how I feel for second but then after that I’m cold as shit and covered in piss and that REALLY doesn’t help!
One thing to consider is to play your worst fears forward. Where do you end up? Is there an exit for you to another country or within the country? Except in the most extreme circumstances, total anarchy seems quite unlikely. Even if that does happen, retreating to a rural area seems possible in this country, given its vast land. In my mind, the only thing I can control is my own reaction. If I play this all out and don’t like what I see, I tend to occupy myself by asking myself what action I may take in a given set of circumstances.
Governments collapse. New paradigms emerge it has been this way for all of human history. Rome is no more, yet I bet a bunch of Romans lived just fine in all but the most localized and acute tragedies, which tend to be temporal.
Me too. I hope Trump wins.
I'm not going to sugarcoat this. The election should not impact your sobriety. If you think it will, that's because you want to drink and are looking for something or someone else to blame. An election outcome that you favor won't save your sobriety.
Get a bigger higher power and then none of it will matter. If I can fully rely on my HP, I won’t have anything to worry about.