I'm going back to college for a fourth time
June 30, 2009 12:34am
Hey guys, how are you? Well me, I'm nervous. Wednesday I'm going back to college for a Basic Math Course, it's a summer class course. …
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svenb 
12:09am, November 16, 2009
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About Me
svenb
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About Me
I'm a 38 year old gay man. I came out to family and friends about 2-3 years ago. I always knew I was gay (I always had an attraction to men), but I didn't want to accept that I was different. I'm in recovery from alcohol and drugs. My clean date is November 21, 2008. Another interesting fact about me is that I am a Solitary Wiccan and I go to an Unitarian Universalist Church. I have evolved my spirituallity by actively seeking what I personally believe. I am attending college as an older student and I'm studing to become a Digital Animator. Some of the reasons I joined Daily Strength is some of what I listed above: alcoholisism, the concerns with being a 30-something gay male and having a belief that is not very popular when it comes to my spiriuality. I am also an adult child of an alcoholic, I was phyically, emotionally, verbally and sexually abused and neglected. I have Borderline Personality Disorder, so I have problems with intamacy, relationships and fear of being alone or abandoned, and I have some medical problems. I am never in a situation where I can discuss all the things that go spinning arround in my head (and sometimes it does feel like everything is going on at once). I thought Daily Strength would help sort through some of those problems.
I'm a 38 year old gay man. I came out to family and friends about 2-3 years ago. I always knew I was gay (I always had an attraction to men), but I didn't want to accept that I was different. I'm in recovery from alcohol and drugs. My clean date is November 21, 2008. Another interesting fact about me is that I am a Solitary Wiccan and I go to an Unitarian Universalist Church. I have evolved my spirituallity by actively seeking what I personally believe. I am attending college as an older student
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Interests
Mostly I love to draw and paint. I like Science fiction movies and books. I love to go camping if I ever get the chance again. I like to play Dungeons and Dragons if I ever find friends who share my interest. I like spending time with my new sober friends in the the support groups I go to. I like to dance eventhough my body is wearing out on me (I have bad knees and I always feel the pain the next day when I dance). I guess I am enjoying life and feel I got a new lease on life after spending a good chunk of my life in disaster called addiction.
Mostly I love to draw and paint. I like Science fiction movies and books. I love to go camping if I ever
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Here we go
June 29, 2009 11:56pm
Wednesday I start my College math course, it's only a Basic Math 045, A review math, but being out of school for 17 years I know I could …
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Thank you for another Outlet
June 28, 2009 11:18pm
Hello everyone. I wanted to take this time to tell everyone and the designers of Daily Strength thank you. I go to AA, NA, counsoling, …
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Let me introduce myself
June 28, 2009 1:14am
Hello everyone on Daily Strength. My name is Sven, I am a 38 year old gay man that has been through and still going …
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Close Gay Men's Challenges
I am a 38 old gay man that came out later in life, and I'm finding that I feel like I'm behind the eight ball with relationships, intamacy, and personal Pride.
Close Alcoholism
I started drinking when I was very young. I tried staying sober in the 1990's I had 6 years of sobriety,but I went back out. I am now sober from all narcotics and alcohol since November 21st, 2008.
Treatments
- 12 Step Program Working / Worked
- I am still make meetings I love going. I believe I still be going as long as I live, by going "One day at a time"
- AA Meetings Working / Worked
- I am still make meetings I love going. I believe I still be going as long as I live, by going "One day at a time"
Open Personality Disorders
Type: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)I like to find out that I'm not alone, especially since I was told that there not that many men that have Borderline Personality Disorder
Treatments
- Talking Somewhat Helpful
- I talk to my therapist but I've found that I still feel like I'm mising something
Open Families & Friends Of Addicts
I an a adult child of an acoholic. I don't usually talk about this topic especially since I now am in recovery for addiction myself, but I still having problems accepting my father and his alcoholism. I guess I want him to "get it" and stop killing himself.
Treatments
- Al-Anon Somewhat Helpful
- i did help when I was a teen but then I found I felt I grown out of it
- Psychotherapy Somewhat Helpful
- I just don't think that wasn't enough being discussed
Open Physical & Emotional Abuse
I have been physically, emotionally, verbally and sexually abused and neglected when I was a child, I guess I was considered a "Latch-Key-KId"
Treatments
- Psychotherapy Considering
- I have tried in the past but nothing ever came of it
Open Prescription Drug Abuse
I have a problem with painkiller's ever since my knee surgery it has gottworse when I also was having problems with GERD and pancreatitis these last two years. my clean date is November 21st, 2008
Treatments
- Narcotics Anonymous (NA) Working / Worked
- I love Na it's been a lifesavior
Open GERD & Heartburn
I have Gerd and finding it dificult finding relief. I go to the doctor's a lot, but I don't think they care so much.
Treatments
Open Pancreatitis
I was diagnosed in 2007. I've stopped drinking and it seemed to go away, but did it I thought that was something that I had to deal with much more. I still have stomach pains but the doctors say it is not a flare up
Open Sexual Abuse
I was sexually abused when I was a child to my preteens by both men and women
Treatments
- Talking Somewhat Helpful
- I have taked somewhat but there is many missing memories and its hard to talk about
- \"The Courage To Heal\" Somewhat Helpful
- that was one of the first attemps to helped me but my father's issurance wouldn't cover treatment anymore so I never got to finish it
