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- Might get crap for calling you out. I am sorry if this upsets you.I hate to see what you are going through. I can see you are struggling. I am disturbed because I do care about you and I do have love for you. I promise you that. I want the...
- Can't quite describe it, but something is changing inside of me. I am starting to feel different and it feels really good. I am starting to feel like I have a whole new life ahead of me.Maybe it will stick. Maybe it will pass. I used to tell...
- This goes with Coog's "What makes them happy" post that I had a hard time answering because I don't really KNOW what makes "them" happy.I'm not even sure what really makes me happy. If I had to answer, I would say... Connecting, engaging,...
- I'm curious to hear from people at different points in sobriety whether it is 1 day, 1 month, 1 year, or multiples of years.I am nearing 2 months. I know I need more than what I have to stay sober in the long run, but this is where I am right now,...
- ...to fight with people I love and respect.I have seen or heard hurtful words between at least 4 sets of my friends and have had 5 friends take "breaks" from here in the past week. Heartwrenching.I wish you'd stop throwing stones at each other. I...
- Emotion. Passion. It is overwhelming sometimes. It burns. Comes out as anger, rage. Suppressed. Good or bad or both or neither. Had to numb it because I never knew what to do with it. Infatuation with everyone and everything and life. I was...
- Anyone ever want recovery more than anything else in the world and yet feel an occasional overpowering compulsion to say fuck it and deliberately self destruct? It's rage. I have had it my whole life or as long as I can remember. Alcohol became...
- Not feeling good lately here. My defense mechanisms are so close to the surface I feel I'm going to snap any minute. It is internal and stems from old feelings. Thought I would try to turn a negative old thought to a positive. Sharing something...
- This is part of what keeps me coming back........The 12 Promises of Alcoholics AnonymousIf we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.(1) We are going to know a new freedom and a new...
- This is part of what keeps me coming back........The 12 Promises of Alcoholics AnonymousIf we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.(1) We are going to know a new freedom and a new...
- The 12 Promises of Alcoholics AnonymousIf we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.(1) We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.(2) We will not regret the past nor wish to...
- ...ever talk about healing the physical damage, specifically with respect to the brain, caused by alcoholism?Bill Wilson believed strongly that alcoholics and depressives could be helped with vitamins and he was passionate about this research. It...
- ...before your last relapse... What did you do?or...before your last NEAR relapse... What did you do?
- ...whether or not you are an alcoholic?A lot of new comers seem uncertain. When I was at that stage, I thought I sought inebriation for the sake of escape. I thought that my drinking was ONLY a solution to underlying emotional pain. I thought I...
- This is the paradox of recovery. We cannot do it alone, but yet we must do it by ourselves. We cannot expect God or a higher power to do what we are able to do for ourselves, but yet we cannot do it for ourselves without somehow touching a source...