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social life follow up
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I still fel like an outcast a social leper if you will I can talkto anyone but with the (mental) problems Ihave on top of my addictionssss it makes it really hard to trust. once everything is said and done I will be able to write about what cripples me, till then I have my therapist to talk to and a few choice (...
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reality before gratitude: No peace of mind here.
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prayer answered, didn't happen. Working on it. -- Edited by Keli_A on Saturday 29th of August 2009 11:08:38 AM
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My pain part 3
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working on it. prayer answered not importaint anymore -- Edited by Keli_A on Saturday 29th of August 2009 11:02:01 AM
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oh the next few days
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well my final days of treatment are here. only 2 days left. after treatment its off to school and hopefully getting a job. i have a job interview at a video store on wed so hopefully i will get it. if not then i will just be broke forever. ha my room mate called today said my books came so i think im all set for sc...
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Cleared !
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Friends and fellows, I share with joy the good news Ihad last morning about the hep.c. treatment. The nurse specialist informed me that I had cleard the irus in just four weeks of treatment. Im greatful to God and the support I got from those of you who cared. But, and yes, the big but is that I had to comple...
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Just a test drive - What's your thoughts of it?
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Just for Today...
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Good Day! Just for today tell yourself.... Today is the most important day of your life! Our group recently start online closed meeting using telephone conference bridge if interested please go to The 12 Steps Group of Narcotics Anonymous Kind Regard...
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oh lovely!
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i forgot how much i LOVED chairing meetings. (sarcasm) but oh well there used to be meetings almost every night online here but now theres only 2. well now 3. too much drama for me. goodnight.
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My story. My pain.
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Working on it, my pain. Working on it, my story. Please pray for me. -- Edited by Keli_A on Saturday 29th of August 2009 11:03:52 AM -- Edited by Keli_A on Tuesday 1st of September 2009 06:27:00 PM
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Happy hols Mike !
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Have a great break Mike, youre great mate !
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Decided to get some anger management counseling
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I am calling the counseling center tomorrow I have had it with this problem in my life and have lost another good person and don't want it to happen again.
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I once read that "guru" is sanskrit...
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that "gu" means darkness, and that "ru" means light... as in "out of darkness, into the light" Don't know if it's true or not, but I liked it... that makes us all gurus!!!
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Gratitude List
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So here it is. Thank you guys so much for all of your support. You have no idea how much it means to me. K. I am thankful for the river that I can never stand in twice but go to every day to look at the eagles wet their wings. I am thankful for the comfort of solitude and the water. I am thankful for the eagles...
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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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