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relationships in sobriety
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i'd love to have a { edited}, wouldn't we all? but, these people keep chanting at me wait until you have 1 year! i've just stumbled on some material that says wait 2yrs!! i think i'm gonna wait the 2yrs because you can really get to know people before it gets too intimate goes bad -- Edited by BigV on Thursda...
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The beginning is the end is the beginning.
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So it has been a while since I've been on these boards, but I haven't been going to meetings very much recently .. actually not at all. Infact I've told myself I'll never go back to a meeting in this town ever again (stomps foot and crosses arms). I know that' a poor attitude, but I was burned pretty bad by my...
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what the hell has happened to my life
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things are really confusing in my life right now don't know which end is up. Finding it difficult to make simple decisions wishing someone would just take control of EVERYTHING and make them for me but apparently that is not gonna happen so I am forced to live with the wreckage of my past and struggling t...
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Hello, all! I'm new here...
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Just thought I'd introduce myself... I'm Tisa, I'm an addict. (Shocking to find one of those here, I know.) I don't get to as many meetings as I'd like... problems with distance, gas, and cash-flow... so I wanted to find a place online to supplement my recovery. Since it's after midnight, it was yeste...
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Crack husband wants money !!!
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Last week my husband broke into his place of employment and stole money out of the store's safe. His parents paid the owner off so that the owner would not press charges. Fearing the worst, my husband checked himself into a treatment facility. Once he realized that the owner did not press charges, he ch...
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telecom meeting
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Hi all, My name is Paul and I am an addict. I do not know if any of you have ever heard of this, (it is still a new thing for me) but there is now a way that we can have meetings over the telephone. If you are like many folks, you have unlimited calling on your cell phone after 9 p.m., or at least you have several th...
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couldnt make a meeting
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Hi, my name is David, i am an addict. Couldnt make a meeting tonight, but I did not use today and for some reason a friend of mine called and we ended up talking about God. So i took it as a message from a higher source.
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Total Abstinence
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I need clarification please: benzo's for anxiety other anti anxiety meds anti depressants Can one be considered clean if currently taking any of the above? What about nicoteine and caffeine?
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New to recovery
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Hi everyone. I just Got out of rehab. I am trying to make a new life and start fresh. Just wondering about my life and wondering if I can make it. I am just out of a 90 day rehab for crack cocaine. I am not around my old crowd but I need some love and support to stay clean.
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The winds of change have blown my way !
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Seems another change is in the offing. I may have to leave Sheffield and settle in Lemahagow in Scotland for the next year. The taught section of my studies are over. This leaves me free to do a job and earn some money.. I have been offered a one year placement with ISCON (have you heard of it ?). I will be abl...
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Question About Cross Addiction
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My husband decided against treatment after telling me yesterday he would check himself into a treatment facility. I am not disappointed but I would like an answer to a question. My husband age 44 is a crack addict who has been in or out of treatment programs for 30 years. He claims that he is attending...
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Thoughts and feelings this working week.
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Monday. I am panicking about the approaching hand in date for my dissertation, hardly a month away. Seems Ive taken my foot oft the pedal and need to get back into the act. I do a concentration exercise and begin. I am transcribing the interviews that i conducted. later Ill need to note the themes and con...
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Credit card stuff anyone ?
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This creit card thing is certainly a part of the disease. Me spending on things I dont reaaly need, and them not even sending proper statements on a regular basis. So today I decided that I have had enough. I asked my famly not to give them any answers; we have been requesting statements for wo years now an...
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SHOULD A PSYCHOTIC PERSON WITH CLEAN TIME BE ALLOW TO SPEAK A TWELVE STEPS SERIES.
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I have 4 months clean , but I've 'been coming to n/a meetings for about 20 years, I have learn to help other addicts to the best of my ability, I'll try to make this as brief as I can , the other night I gather some guys to go take a meeting to the house of an addict who's dying , this one guy who was not part of the gr...
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Recovering Herion Addict Here:
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Hello, I became a member alittle while ago.. I have been clean off of herion since Dec,1st,2002
I enjoy my cleantime. I got cleaned because I loved it and it didn't work for me anymore, because if it did, I probably would still be out there. I had 6 years at one time, but I have three herniated disc and art...
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Alateen or something like it
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Does anyone know anything about Alateen? The counselors at the recovery home strongly suggested that I should take my daughters to the alateen meetings but I don't want to have to make them. They have been through enough already. They agreed to go to an open NA meeting w/ me but they aren't comfortable...
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First Post
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Hi!!!! this is my first post here and Im hoping to God I can relate here because I am sick. sick sick sick/ and I need to go back to living the na way!!! First, please!!! any newcomer, those of you who have just decided you have had enough-dont take all the cute little things that are repeated over and over as...
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Triangle of obsession
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When we are born we are conscious only of ourselves, we are the universe. We perceive little other than our basic needs, and if these needs are met we are content. As our consciousness expands we become aware of a world outside ourselves. We discover that there are people, places, and things around us,...
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New Member - Detoxing from Suboxone again...why!!??
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I won't tell my whole story...its pretty generic. Got injured, got pain pills, they helped with anxiety, got hooked, asked for help, got suboxone, 7 months later quit suboxone, months of horrible wds, lost 25 lbs, never touched an opiate after stopping the suboxone(1st time), doctor suggested I go...
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Chronic pain--tramadol?
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I finally got in to see my pain management doctor today and laid everything out on the table. He was actually really nice about it. (I was sure he'd kick me out of his practice.) We talked about my addiction issues, my recent hospitalization, and pretty much everything. He actually talked about put...
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Just for Today August 13, 2009
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Difficult peoplePage 235 "By giving unconditional love. . . we become more loving, and by sharing spiritual growth we become more spiritual." Basic Text, p. 99 Most of us have one or two exceptionally difficult people in our lives. How do we deal with such a person in our recovery? First, w...
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1956 Buff Book (our first literature)
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This is our very first literature from 1956. If you have anything to share please do...
DO YOU NEED NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS?
You do if you are an addict.
Are you an addict?
Ask yourself these questions. Answer them as honestly as you can.
1. Do you loose time from work due to "using"?
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Goodmorning family!
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We take each day with its ups and downs and try and make the best we can of them in recovery free and clean of "all" mind altering and mood changing substances,All that leaves us is "life on lifes terms with our character defects.(IS THAT ALL!!!!)Anyway please join me in a moment of joy...
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been gone but didnt forget this place
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hi guys sorry i have been absent for so long there is really no excuse but life kicking me in the a--- i will try to get to meetings and stay currant on the board i amm glad to see raman still here and all the rest of you as well still clean and serene
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Newbie in Recovery
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Hi, I'm Mary. I am an addict, and new to this board. Back in May, I attended my first NA meeting, then about a week later got laid off from my job & my husband had major surgery. The oxycontin and norco and percocet was originally for my chronic pain and were easy to get when my husband was in the hospi...
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a new baby?
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im not exactly too happy about it. my sister is haveing a c-section right now and i don't know why but im not happy about it. i mean i don't like my sister and i don't like the idea of how she is totally completely broke. no job. no car. no insurance. no where to live. not married. and her boyfriend is a comple...
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social life
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ok I don't get it I used to make friends so easy and now that is hard for me to do Ihave so much on my plate I am barely keeping my head above water and I am growing weary What is a healthy way to make friends??? well actually I can meet ppl just fine keeping them around now that's another
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Clean
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Today I am 2 years clean. I cant believe how time flies. I have no urges to use at all. I had been an addict for over 20 years. I thanking my higher power that im alive today. I have been working my steps and now have 5 sponcees. My addiction started out as alcohol then pot then pain meds. I have had majo...
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August 10, 2009
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Regular prayer and meditationPage 232 "Most of us pray when we are hurting. We learn that if we pray regularly, we won't be hurting as often or as intensely." Basic Text, p. 44 Regular prayer and meditation are two more key elements in our new pattern of living. Our active addiction was more...
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oh the weekend
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my family is going to visit me this weekend in treatment. im not really looking forward to it since the last time we talked it was screaming. i wish that they would just understand and support me but all they can say is that im an idiot and a failure. so what i screwed up. no ones perfect. im stressed beyond b...
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