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What to do?
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Hi I am new here. I am a step parent to a 24 year old, and its been very trying for me since I met his dad in 2003. I am at a loss, I have been born with tough love with my family and find it so hard to believe that my husband nor his family will hear me. My step son, since I have been in the picture has not really held a j...
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please read today been clean
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this is for everyone even if you been just clean just for this minute. GOOD FOR YOU THATS A START. we have all been there. just remember we support you even when you think we don't. believe me thats when we do most. we have all been there. we all started out like you. if you want to email me anytime at martiala...
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To all the newcomers
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What matters is keeping the desire to stay clean no matter how tough it gets, just get past each episode and don't use. The program gives suggestion on how to start living life with a set of tools we're given. Imagine an empty tool box what good is that if you have a job to do, start filling that tool box with...
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what to do????
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hi thanks for the advice on the other chat room. i tried to log in but because my email address is already in use, with this chat room, it didnt allow me to go any further. i dont know what im doing wrong. anyway, i hope that i can still get some advice here too.... my husband is still going strong. other than f...
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spiraling downward
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I am so overwhelmed with life it is getting harder to keep on keeping on I hate feeling like I am a burden to my family and I found out they are looking into surgery on my rotater cuff on my right arm which the recovery time is over a year I feel like I cannot win for losing that no matter what I do it is wrong. I am i...
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Just when you think you're doing well...
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Hi! It's been a while since I posted anything. I have 21 months of recovery time and thought my life was going well. I had everything I wanted - a job, a husband, security, love, a great sponsor, friends in the program... then another side of my addiction came to the surface. Last Monday, despite the f...
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january 30 just for today
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January 30 Giving It Away " We must give freely and gratefully that which has been freely and gratefully given to us." Basic Text p. 47 In recovery, we receive many gifts. Perhaps one of the greatest of these gifts is the spiritual awakening that begins when we stop using, growing stronger e...
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looking in from the outside
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ever feel like you are looking in someplace where you know you should be and all you can do is unfog the window enough to see what is happening in your families life wondering if you will ever belong? I feel like that all the time. The one place I should belong no matter what I can't even be there. Then I get t...
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A morning meeting
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I have a hard time staying straight for very long, is there a morning meetng on-line. I have a hard time staying clean until the 10 pm meeting. If not that is cool cause no matter what using will not be one of my options anymore and if i gotta wait till 10:00 pm then so be it. Looking forward to seeing you all a...
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just for today january 29
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January 29 The First Step - An Action Step " Do we understand that we have no real control over drugs?" Basic Text p. 18 At first, many of us may have thought the First Step required no action-we just surrender and go on to Step Two. But Step One does require action! The action we take in the First...
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Learning How to live again
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January 27 Learning how to live again" We learn new ways to live. We are no longer limited to our old ideas." Basic Text p. 54 We may or may not have been taught right from wrong and other basics of life as children. No matter, by the time we found recovery, most of us had only the vaguest idea of ho...
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I think he admitted himself to a treatment ctr
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I think. Anybody who has been keeping up with me knows that my SO has been on a downward spiral with his addiction since Nov. I threw him out and hadn't really seen him since Thurs morning when he left for work... Other than finding him sleeping on a lawn chair in my back yard Sat morning and then a stop by to...
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Man, I am so unmanageable and insane right now!
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Jeez, I can't stand me right now! I'll try to be concise... I don't think I can listen to another human voice right now so maybe writing and reading some replies will help me come to some kind of clarity and surrender. I've already posted that my SO is a chronic relapser. He was clean 8 months until the end...
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hello family
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greetings from a windchill of -47 today...yikes and i still managed to make it to school :) i am having a cake and will graciously accept my 2 year medallion tonight i know that for me at 2 years now i must really get into the "work" of the program not that i haven't already but i must be vigilan...
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na contacts in china
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are there any addicts on this site in china .i,ll be in shanghai in july and am trying to make some connections and meetings .cheers dale
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January 23, 2009
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Serenity check Page 23 "Lack of daily maintenance can show up in many ways" Basic Text, p. 95 Ever had a perfect stranger remark about how great the weather was, only to reply "It stinks"? When this happens, we are probably suffering from a lack of daily maintenance in our p...
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5th step
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I'm struggling with the difference between the exact nature of my wrongs and my actions. Is the exact nature what causes my actions and the ensuing patterns, ie habitually hooking up with the wrong crowd, and my thinking pattern behind it? I'm doing the writing in the stepworking guide before i do m...
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trust is earned not given
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this girl I had befriended that I met in the hospital I had been letting her hangout at my house this weekend thought I could trust her come to find out she was stealing medicine from me both for pain control and for mental health I busted her for it thank god or I would be in a world of hurt my first instinct wa...
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Help!!
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im three days in of being clean and my own mom cant even help me!! she instead tries to bait me and trys to anger me and accuse me of using.....when i know deepdown im doing right.why??? isnt she supposed to be happy for me? she asked me to get clean and i did. im trying to not be so angry and not lash out...
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Wondering how to deal with being hurt recoverying addicts
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hey everyone so heres my situation and i'm not too sure how to deal with the hurt of it all. I had a friend in recovery who i used to call him my uncle. He helped me get adjusted in the rooms, introduced me to solid females in the program. The problem is that I love the chanting, and the area i originally cam...
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Do we think are superior to those who have never used?
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I know this might be a controversial topic, but I was thinking today that sometimes I and others I know have commented- in the midst of using- that other people don't know what they are missing- that high from using. Once I said I can't believe people live their entire lives and never feel that way. No...
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New member intro
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Hi, I am not sure how much to introduce myself so please ask if you need to know anything about me. Name's Andy & I am basically trying to figure out if I belong in NA and/or AA. I know I have something of a self-medication problem, but I don't know how much is booze and how much is other stuff. I started to...
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Loved Ones...What about us?
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My boyfriend started going to NA meetings last Tuesday. I feel so stupid because I had no idea he was having such a problem. 7 years ago he was a Meth addict. He was incarcerated and "kicked" the addiction. He was loacked up for 5 years. We have been together for 1 1/2 years. Now he has bee...
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hope
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i returned from a six 6 day break. my husband informed me that he will try to stop smoking pot at home. he has brought some nicobate, to help with his withdrawals. im very happy. for the past two days he hasnt smoked. i know that time ahead wont be easy and i KNOW that its not the end. but it has showed me that h...
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Son being released from rehab end of week
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Just came home from a meeting w/my son and his counsler today. Everything went great until the end. My 22 yr. old son has been in jail for over two months and rehab for about 2.5 weeks(can 't understand that one)?? He was addicted to Oxycontin for two years ( and I never knew it). His life took a bad turn...
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Step 3 decision taking?
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I have been bothered for sometime now on the action that I need to make on step 3... How is it that I am asked to take a decision when I admited that I have an unmanageable life and that am powerless on the first two steps? Can someone give me an easier explanation on working the third step?
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New Day
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So.....i took a big step today. I acknowledged my problem. I also cleared my side of the street with someone that I was way over due on amends even tho they had passed from their addiction. Not to mention I tossed my pipe... the drugs i had... asked for help because i was tired of running. Tired of th...
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Not allowing contamination into my life anymore!
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Hey family, Shannon an addict that needs to keep coming back cause she doesn't know enough just yet! You know I have been on and off again with my sponsor she fired me, rehired me, fired me last Sunday, then yesterday got a phone call from her and she rehired me again. I am like ok What is going on here. I m...
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does anyone know where I can get some speakers from the net and burn it to a cd?
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Hi family shannon an addict, been coming around for a while and know that I don't know enough, but that I need to keep coming back. Does anyone know of any websites for na that have a good amount of speaker tapes that you can burn to a cd?? If so let me know ok.
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Howdy!
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Wanted to introduce myself to the boards. Name's Eric and I heard about this from someone at my IOP sessions talking about "online meetings." It sounded perfect for me, as I used to spend free time at work browsing a bunch of drug using message boards :/ So now I can still spend time on a messag...
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