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HOLY CRAP I CANT BELEIVE ITS BEEN A WHOLE YEAR...NEED TO VENT
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HI FAMILY...I CELEBRATE 1 YEAR CLEAN NEXT WEEK...AMAZING...SO MUCH HAS CHANGED, I WAS READING BACK TO THE FIRST POSTS I PUT UP HERE DURING MY 1ST FEW DAYS AND WEEKS OF RECOVERY...WOW...EVEN BEFORE I STARTED ATENDING REAL LIVE MEETINGS AND ALL... WELL SINCE THEN, LETS SEE....MY MAN AND I ARE STILL TOG...
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justtina
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Update on Manon
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This is her best friend. she is doing fine, but will not be on the computer for awhile. she wants to let you all know that she appiciates your support and love. and will always call this home. i will keep you updated. thanks for the concern.... Cherylynn
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Manon
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QOD 10/21/09
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How do you maintain an attitude of gratitude ?
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Tisa2U
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life gets tough then i realize i'm not working the program as suggested
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so instead of going and kicking my ex girlfriends (yeah she's an ex again ) best friends ass, (he's a guy I sat in front of his apartment ready to go up to him and slap the slobber out of his friken mouth ) who keeps lying to her and playing games with her instead went to a meeting , step 11 meeting , sitting in...
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BigV
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QOD 10/22/09
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What was going on the last time you had to do a "reality check" ?
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Tisa2U
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how i feel today
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I have been in this program for more than two years.I feeling alright today besides for pain.I started to work on my fourth step again. I was working on it. When it come to me that if I had to write a book on my life. A lot of it would be excuse why I had to go and take the drugs. It's funny how those excuse are no...
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jcd aka jayson cole
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My favorite character defect"BEAT MYSELF SENSELESS!!!
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Hello family,Just wanted to share where im at today First thing Eric is in locked psych center,detox and out of contact for now.I think of the children in our lives,anthony,lee,dean,tisa, all others that "share from their hearts here"i think of how vinnies mom took him to the next town ,d...
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Husband in Jail
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My husband was arrested October 10 for business burglary and bonded out of jail Thursday October 15 by falsifying information. Friday morning October 16, 2009 , the bail bondsman contacted me about paying the rest of the $250 for my husbands bail. I informed the bondsman that my husband was a crac...
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DeltaRedd1984
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Frustrated with meds, sponsership, and working the program
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I am new to the NA program and have been attending meetings daily for the last 2 weeks or so in Atlanta. I have been on and off of suboxone for the last five years. When I am not on it I have been doping, except an isolated year when I was drinking and tweeking. I am currently on a very low dose of suboxone; 2mg t...
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Newbie
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Every now and then i like to post this
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Especially now for myself I need to read it over and again to get the jest of what I am up against and whats available. My spiritual living, loving, relationship seem so hopeless and today I went to the best meeting ever, a huge men's stag that was AWESOME. There were guys there who sang my song EXACT lyric...
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BigV
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Athiest
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I just wanted to make a post so that other atheists won't give up on being clean because of being uncomfortable with all the talk about a higher power. I became clean and sober in Alvin, Texas in on Feb. 18, 1988. Over the years, I went from being a Christian to "spiritual" (having some va...
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ehipassiko
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oops
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Im sorry all, I posted my response in wrong place and couldnt figure out how to delete! With God all things are possible........ -- Edited by 2ndtimearound on Friday 16th of October 2009 01:04:03 PM
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remember?
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remember when i said i had been in and out of the hospital because they didnt know what was wrong with me? well they think i may have heart disease but they aren't 100% sure. i went in today after leaving half way through class with chest pains and feeling like i was going faint. (again). they did tell me th...
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LizC
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APPROX. 3207!
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Morning family! back at it again,.approx week 3207 for me, in the 'JOURNEY OF LIFE"...weekend was not greatest ,but way better than what any week using did for me...,.I have put my armour on(my spiritual readings ) and ready to move forward following the steps of my higher power( of whom I wis...
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MIKEF
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online sponsor
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Hi again all, I was Just wondering about getting an online sponsor.?? How do you go about it and exactly how does it work seeing as you dont see each other face to face?? Emails? phone? If anyone can help me out, Id sincerely appreciate it. It just feels right to be here and in this forum. If Im going to be in t...
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2ndtimearound
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QOD 10-16-09
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What was the last coincidence (your H.P. remaining anonymous) that occurred in your life ?
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Tisa2U
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Got a new job...
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I start in 2 weeks. I should be happy and relieved, but I'm just suddenly so tired. Is it that I owe the new job to the old boss that I hated working with? Or that I just resist change? Or that I was hoping for the other, higher-paying job? Or have I just not had enough coffee to function? Or perhaps it was the su...
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Tisa2U
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Talk about on the up and the down!!!
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Hey family, didnt think I would be back so soon.At my job and my friend says'Did Eric tell you?Said tell us what.?..BUSTED , 23 year old,this saturday afternoon at 4;50 pm, Eric F, in Highland New York,misdeameanor,possession stolen property,set of works an controlled substances(junk)In the Ul...
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MIKEF
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Back on home ground !
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Hi all, Im glad that goddamned, bizzare 7 days is ended and Im back home, safe and dry ! All the disorganized, unprofessional and weird things were minuses in that experience. However, the good things did happen too. I played my sax well, and also became aware that till this treatment is over, I will not...
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Raman
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Honesty,Openmindedness,Willingness
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I call these the big three.I know I had to learn how to use all three of these in my recovery.Honesty to admit I was an addict and needed help bad and learn how to ask for it.Openmindedness to let in the knowledge that is there to teach me a new way of life.I have to be open for suggestion rather than jusy my wa...
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cdbuckberry
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The lone wolf cries alone
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look I don't know where to begin.. I feel better on this board than in person.. Its a long story but here is the condensed version.. I am tired of my own lies and denal.. it statred back in LA doing the Acting /music scence .. and let me tell you I went through major Shit .. had many oppertunities but cuz I was s...
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Grant
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QOD 10/12/09
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When was the last time you felt the need to argue your point of view ? Did you win ?
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Tisa2U
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QOD 10/13/09
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Who benifited most from your last act of kindness ? What was that act ?
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Tisa2U
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I am upset
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my girlfriend has decided she's going to smoke pot now and then. One of her clients gave her a taste a few weeks ago I think she's a dealer trying to get her hooked and it's worked she showed me a small bag she got from the same girl, she sorta waved it in the air showing it off to me and it set me back I asked if the...
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no more posts
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I am tired lonely and angry and suicidal I have had enough I am not strong enough to do any of this (life) anymore try living with 12 or more ppl in your head at once I just can't do it
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Manon
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Update -- Missing Husband In Jail
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Just wanted to let everyone here know that my husband who was missing for several weeks is now in the county jail for business burglary. He called me this morning around 3:00 am to let me know that he was being arrested. I guess now, he will have to kick the crack and meth cold turkey. This jail does not a...
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DeltaRedd1984
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today
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today is/would be 4 months clean for me. i dont count smoking pot one day as a relapse. yeah yeah someone is going to argue with me about this but whatever i believe what i want to. so today i am 4 months clean. thats the longest ive ever gone. its been a tough 4 months but god damn i made it. just thought i would...
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LizC
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Food obssession.
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Phat,,,,,,,,,,,,, Iv been obssessed with food these past two weeks in India. Maybe it's the heat and dust causing stress, or being with family after one year of nearly monklike existance in Eng., God knows what but Im obssessed. Its not like Im buying burgers and milkshakes all day long, nor- am I doin...
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Raman
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NEW--saying Hi.
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Hi Everyone, I am new here, and I wanted to say Hi. I am struggling with addiction, and trying to get clean. I am a fully functioning OC addict, and I know that term seems like an oxymoron, but my problem has only recently gotten bad. I do about 2 a night, I cannot do them during the day because of work, so I kno...
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mgr
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LET GO.....
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Just thought ya'll might like this. Don't know who wrote it, but it is really good. "LET GO" To "let go" does not mean to stop caring. It means I can't do it for someone else. To " let go" is not to cut myself off. It's the realization that I can't control another. To &q...
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Kris_09
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