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Just for Today: Mistakes aren't tragedies. But please, Higher Power, help me learn from them!
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May 14, 2009Oops!Page 140 "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." Basic Text, p. 23 Mistakes! We all know how it feels to make them. Many of us feel that our entire lives have been a mistake. We often regard our mistakes with shame or guilt at the very leas...
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Sims not the Diffs
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hi - i was wondering if anyone knows where in the basic text or any other literature is there a paragraph or two about focusing on the similarities not the differences. Or any insight on the importance of this by you awesome brothers and sisters would be great too:0 Just finished my 7th and am coming to un...
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One of the most spiritual songs Ive ever heard in my life !!!!
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Everything must change (Streisand.B, 1974 ?)Everything must change nothing stays the same everyone must change no one stays the same the young become the old and mysteries do unfold cause that's the way of time nothing and no one goes unchanged there are not many things in life you can be sure of excep...
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is there anyone out there
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I have never found it so hard to talk to someone as today. Techinally or clash of meeting room times. I would like to cry but can't the drugs they have me on to get off of the drugs I was on will not allow it. I have been trying church and other religious meetings they help but I would really like to talk to so...
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Need Support
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Hello. I am new to NA and it has taken me a very long time to finally want to overcome this addiction. I am a 29 year old female and have been using marijuana daily since I was 14 years old. All these years I felt like I can function in the real world and have made many accomplishments. However, I made a life...
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new at not using 4 days sober
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this is from tucson arizona and i would like to join your chats for a while but i am not sure what 10 eastern time is can you help me so i know what time to join you all on the chat forum. thank you
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Morbid thoughts
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OK I am getting sick of this, anytime I lay down to rest to either nap or go to bed at night I have these imaginary morbid thoughts of animals being hurt. Usually its about animals being hurt or killed but has gone into other areas like loved ones even. I figure I just simply live in fear and when I start to res...
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need help plz
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my husband is an addict and I need to find out what meeting I need to attend to help myself and him in this situation. Thanks
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Information for time zones for meeting time
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First off if you have a phone book and you are looking which time zone you want for the meeting when it starts you look in your phone book and there is a map which has all the time zones on it like Pacific, Mountain, Central, Eastern and Atlantic. As for myself I am in central time and I live in Kenora Ontario....
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new member (tweaker in MMT)
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addicts: hello and good afternoon to all you recovering addicts. my name is brian baggs and i'm a recovering meth/oc addict from macon, ga. i began methadone maintenance treatment back in sept. 2008. it has been a life saver for myself. since i began treatment, i've kept a really good job, gotten marr...
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Finding your own way!
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hey everyone! mikef here.wanted to run this by you,something i discussed with my 23 year old son other day...my son been "clean" of his drug of choice(heroin) for about 21 months now.he came back out of jail in nov.2008 after couple years of drug court.TC'S,REHAB'S(LIKE 5 OF THEM)etc..h...
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Oooooooops sorry Anthony
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just checking in.
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well i just wanted to let everyone know that im doing just great. (no sarcasm) other than my little freak out last week im doing fine. im clean. im still not going to meetings but im not craving or thinking about drugs, so that's good. 18 more days of school and hopefully i graduate.
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Hey Mom
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Hey Mom. Well its been 4 mothers days that have passed since you went on. Couple things I need to talk to you about. Remember that time when I was 7 and left the house running after you told me I better not leave ? You caught me two houses down the block. Who would have thought you could run like that ? It shock...
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It dosent make sense.
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Just like i was hateful of people when I was using and then in clean time till I worked the Steps,,I see the reverse happening now. No matter how much we may try and be good and kind and loving , some people will still be monsters. Like now in my study group,I have a bunch of students from a dictatorship, who a...
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New Student in Masters Addiction Counseling Program
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I am a new student with limited sobriety and have only "officially" worked the first five steps with a sponsor but work all 12 in my daily life. The school does not have a counseling center to work through issues and I live isolated on a farm with no transportation and no way to get to meetings....
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Our Group Celebrated 6th Anniversary last week...
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It's been 6 years of carrying the message for my homegroup. We call it Jyothi Group, 'Jyothi' in Hindi meaning 'Light'. Since we never got to celebrate our group anniversary every year, this time, the homegroup members decided we would do so now. It was an awesome meeting, and I felt so grateful that I w...
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25 YEARS RECOVERY,14 MONTHS IN PROCESS
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hello everyone i am mikef. i wanted to run something by you all.i am 61 years and i spent from 1959 until 1984(dec.2nd) in addiction. i surrendered then after a life of devastion(we all here know without me going into "my story')but anyway after spending 2 years in NARANON because my son (22 year o...
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Greetings from a new Member from New Zealand
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Hello all, I am a 38 year old opiate addict from New Zealand. I am currently in the process of tapering off the methadone programme which enabled me to stop using and stabalise my life, get a job etc. However it has been too long and it's time to get real and get clean. I have been in and out of recovery for s...
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Nurse searching for work
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I am currently completing Intensive Outpatient Therapy. My days are soon to be free, and I need work. Any suggestions for East Central Florida/Cocoa area jobs?
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my HP never seises to amaze me
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I was having a bad day yesterday with solutions(mental health group) and all I was at wal mart getting a dose of caffeine ( diet coke) lol and this lady before me in check out could see I was struggling with the events of the day came up to me after I had checked out said "God said you were having a hard da...
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Opiate Addict Having Surgery Soon
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I am relatively new in recovery and I'm in a master's degree counseling program. I am scheduled to have two surgeries before August 18th, when my health insurance expires. Pain pills were definitely my thing. Now, I have been told that having surgery at this time would be very dangerous. However, the...
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Looking for study subjects: ex-heroin addict/ now in 12-step
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Looking for ex-heroin addicts who are currently in a 12-step program (Note: this means a 12-step program only, ie. not in addition to MMT or Suboxone) to participate in a short (approximately one hour) interview about various forms of opiate treatment. Participants must have been in a 12-step prog...
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Dumping it on MIP
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Recently Ive had my butt chewed for not writing enough. I love my excuses and relish the opportunity to exploit them whenever I can. But I did after my last Whine session and contemplate WTF is holding me back ? The best I can come up with is some of the bad stuff. Im remembering things that have gone down an...
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For Vicky ( myredfairy)
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Hi vicky , Im an addict. My names Anthony. I saw your response to an earlier thread and thought I would share a bit of my limited ES&H . Im 49 years old . started using regularly at 12 . Got clean from about 25 to 32. and went back out. I was 48 before I came back in the rooms. Yesterday on the 3rd of may...
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borrowed this from cherylc off another site. Thought you might enjoy. REMEMBER: "Love does not exist, unless it is shared" Many years ago in a small Indian village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to a village moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly...
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Is it OK Not To Believe in Sobriety Dates?
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I have been sober for a short while and I really do not think sobriety dates are helpful. My expeience in the past has been that they gave me a false sense of security in my recovery and on every birthday I was extremely temped to drink and have thinking "It's ok, I am not an alcoholic." So, I l...
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My name is Jenn and I am an Addict
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It all started during my pregnancy when I used Benedryl through my PICC line for nausea and started abusing it. I had syringes and all sorts of stuff left over from home health care and started shooting it up after my pregnancy was over. I took the IV fluids I had and oral benadryl capsules I opened and sh...
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hello!
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i'm newyoungsober date 2/24 this is my second shot at recovery, i relapsed. hard and long.so two years later, i'm feeling stronger and more dedicatedand i really need this but being young, it's hard to find people to connect with...not enough of us are serious about recovery, nor can i find those who m...
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My Name is Blake C and I am an Addict...
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First of all thank you for having me here. As I said, My name is Blake and I am an addict. I have never been to an NA meeting because of where I live and my transportation or lack thereof, however I was introduced to AA through my treatment program and have been attending five meetings a week. I did have some...
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