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  • About Me

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    Newbee1

    Female, 45, Single
    Vancouver, BC, CAN
    Member since December 1, 2007

    • About Me

      Getting to know myself has been a great adventure. So far, I have been sober 2 years this time. I will never forget my last night drunk or how small and alone I felt. I had finally gotten what I asked for, "If everyone would just leave me alone..." HATED IT!!!!

      Getting to know myself has been a great adventure. So far, I have been sober 2 years this time. I will never forget my last night drunk or how small and alone I felt. I had finally gotten what I asked for, "If everyone would just leave me alone..." HATED IT!!!!

    • Interests

      Human doings and learning how to live instead of survive.

      Human doings and learning how to live instead of survive.

  • Recent Activity

    Recently:

    • 6 hugs given, 5 journal posts, 4 hugs received, 1 journal comment

    Yesterday

  • Journal

    • Journal Entry for November 7, 2009

      Mood November 7, 2009 7:41pm

      I had another good day so far, went out to work for three hours and it was mostly driving there and back, "ass time" as we call it at work. …

    • Journal Entry for November 7, 2009

      Mood November 7, 2009 1:26am

      Another good day at the office so to speak, I did my best, feel okay about my "Step Ten" tonight, came out pretty good all things …

    • Journal Entry for November 6, 2009

      Mood November 6, 2009 1:14am

      Wow, you should see how hard it's raining! Big fat drops hitting the pavement so hard they are bouncing off two feet up. It's really windy …
    • Journal Entry for November 3, 2009

      Mood November 3, 2009 10:46pm

      I need to figure out what the hell people talk about beside the weather these days. A twenty minute palaver about hair products isn't for me …

    • Journal Entry for November 2, 2009

      Mood November 2, 2009 11:47pm

      I hurt my back at work last friday, didn't think much of it then but, wow, after working all day yesterday and today I have to say I am in a …

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    • Sorry

      From mrsdough Today

      Sorry my bad, no more chocolate shakes for you!! I'll just let you pretend what ever you crave for that day :D

    • Chocolate

      From mrsdough Yesterday

      Hey you take care! BIG HUGS and a chocolate shake for ya!! love ya!!

    • Chicken Soup

      From MidnightShadow Thursday

      You stay down for a while and let your body fight off this yucky flu thing. -- I heard you hurt your back also. -- I am so sorry - when like gets worst - you always know there is a big rain cloud coming to make it worse - huh?
      When you are sick does your mind go all foggy? Or is that just something my body does?
      Love and hugs

    • Little Love

      From MidnightShadow Wednesday

      sorry I haven't written lately (it seems like weeks) -- I have got a horrible cold or the flu - doctors gave me something, but it is just going to take time. I will be writing again soon. But Right Now I only love my bed and pillows.

    • High Five

      From mrsdough October 20

      sounds fantastic I Hope you have a great nap!!! Sweet Dreams

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  • Support Groups

    • Close Alcoholism

      Same as everyone here,I guess. I drank till I could drink no more and lost everything I cared about.

      Treatments

      12 Step Program Working / Worked
      Works if you work it!
      AA Meetings Working / Worked
      Gratefull to go to meetings.
    • Close Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

      Am a 44 yr old woman dealing with a lifetime of horrors. I isolate a lot because I feel awkward for the most part except when I am at work. Mostly I feel like a little motherless child in a grown up world.

      Treatments

      AA Meetings Working / Worked
      Been sober for over a year.
      Psychotherapy Working / Worked
      Helps when I can go
      Reading Working / Worked
      Arming myself with information
    • Open Marijuana Addiction & Recovery

      I have a problem with marijuana that I need to address, I have had enough now. Sept 29 will be day one.

    • Open Physical & Emotional Abuse

      I left the man who repeatedly beat me and strangled me May 17th 2004 and I am still feeling the effects of his abuse. It began with my mother when I was little and it ended with him! Never again!

      Treatments

      Leave Working / Worked
      Music Working / Worked
      I sing
      Talking Working / Worked
      I no longer make escuses for what he did to me. I am always available to discuss how I coped and how I got away. I did not deserve to be treated that way!
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