Sober Single & Bipolar

30/01/2025

Truth...

30/01/2025

13/03/2024

Driving home from work!

13/03/2024

Helpful page for us country folk! :)

If you’re a rural mental health advocate or organisation hosting events, thank you for your service and work.

Can we please take a moment to encourage those in this space not to use “free booze” as the main draw card? 🙏🏻

Given the clear and irrefutable links between alcohol dependence and mental health struggles in rural spaces - we are all mandated to ensure the focus isn’t on using booze as a way to encourage our mates (especially rural men) to open up.

At SITC we have heard from countless blokes over the last decade that they ironically feel excluded and awkward at some events where the focus is very much all about the grog.

The good news is that a better way and solution is so easy ❤️🤠 - just include delicious, tasty, thoughtful alternatives to alcohol in your catering. Whether that’s a zero alc beer or sparkling water - these are small, thoughtful, inclusive and essential things we can all do to ensure our mates choosing less beers or no beers for their best mental health feel welcome too 🙌🏼

If you can enjoy a couple of drinks in moderation, you do you 🤠 - but when we ensure others are supported to do what they need to - that’s where the real impact and change is happening.

To the growing and increasing organisations and facilitators making these changes and helping us - our gratitude is eternally yours.

When we make it - we change and save rural lives 🫶🏻

11/02/2024

WARNING: Qutting the booze will seriously increase your chances of living a life filled with fun, hope, happiness, adventures, motivation, smashing goals, miracles, and gifts beyond your wildest dreams!!!!

Ps, your Facebook memories will go from cringeworthy to amazing too!!!! ;)

11/02/2024

100 days of Alcohol Facts..

Day 2: Alcohol disrupts healthy sleep patterns and interferes with REM sleep. Alcohol does the opposite of helping you sleep! Want to sleep better, give alcohol a break for 30 days and see what happens! It will take a few days/weeks for your sleeping patterns to start getting back to normal, so give it time! :)

Long-term alcohol use can result in chronic sleep problems and disorders like sleep apnea.
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/nutrition/alcohol-and-sleep

Twin study accross 36 years:
https://academic.oup.com/sleepadvances/article/3/1/zpac023/6632721

We explain the effects of alcohol on sleep, including the risk of developing sleep apnea, insomnia, and other sleep conditions.

10/02/2024

💜100 days of alcohol facts💜

3 standard alcohol drinks a week can increase the risk of breast cancer by 15%, and another 10% for each additional unit of alcohol consumed daily on top of that!
US studies quote "moderate drinking" can increase the risk of breast cancer by 30% to 50%.
If you research the meaning of "moderate drinking" you might be surprised how little it is..... (that is a fact for another day) ;)
US medical study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3832299/

Ps, don't worry, not all the facts will be "debbie downers". There will be many positive facts about what quitting/not drinking does to your body too!!! ;)