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you think your a victim
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You are not a victim. How deeply ingrained our self-image as a victim can be! How habitual our feelings of misery and helplessness! Victimization can be like a gray cloak that surrounds us, both attracting that which will victimize us and causing us to generate the feelings of victimization. Victim...
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keri-lee
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finally got the straight answer
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went and got this test at the dr today now they seem to have finally figured what is wrong with me my cartoid arteries a plugged up 1 is at 90% the other is at 85% so they are going to roter rooter it out in a couple of weeks and i should be fine i hate how they have to make you jump through all these hoops though i...
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rocky
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sick and tired of being sick
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well it has taken a week of being sick but I have finally started losing weight again I had stayed around 160 for 2 months and now the weight is coming off again hopefully when I recover I will still keep losing the docs want me @ 136 pounds. So I am not very far from my goal I will be hearing from my surgeon 2mo...
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New to Group
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Hi All, I'm new here and this is my first post. I'm an opiate addict and I want, need, desire to stop using. I need help. Thanks, Raven
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Raven
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What can you say when a love affair is over !!!
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Left a 60000 dollar a year career back home,, left my daughter, mom, fine house two cars and two dogs,, left a whole network of work and leisure contacts, left a load of professional contacts and associates, left a warm country, warm sun and a warm circle of fellows,, just so I can be with lady that shaer...
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Raman
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this is a update on jayson cole
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I'm sorry that I haven't been at the meetings lately!!! I have been in the hospital a month now had another stroke and having problems breathing alot. But so far cancer free. i will be back at the meetings soon. My son is now in school and is reading he's grown-up so fast. I have been clean 15 months now. but...
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ready to come back
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I had a few short releapses. Then I dranked a beer with dinner. The demon did not come out like yall said it would. I was like "shit, I am not an addict" Then the downward spiral began. The wife and I communicate more over a bottle of wine that we do in a month. I found out my dad is in stage 4 cancer a...
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I'm being sucked in by the undertow.....
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Hi. I am new here. I am struggling with my 15 year old son's drug and alcohol use. He was busted in April by the police for being out past cerfew and drinking. He went to court and all that super fun stuff. (total sarcasm) I accidentally stumbled upon information last Monday that he is using drugs. ...
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Lorra
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THANKS TO MY SPONSOR...AND HIGHER POWER...I GOT IT
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For those of you wondering I am due any day now. I am excited for Alaskas arrival, she is an Angel, after nine months I am ready. The first Saturday of every month my husband and I are picked up by my sponsor and given a ride to a speaker meeting. On the way home from the meeting I was talking to my sponsor a...
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ANNY
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Just For Today
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Tell yourself:
JUST FOR TODAY my thoughts will be on my recovery, living and enjoying life without the use of Drugs.
JUST FOR TODAY I will have faith in someone in Narcotics Anonymous who believes in me and wants to help me to recovery.
JUST FOR TODAY I will have a program. I will try to follow it to t...
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Tahir
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4th editon basic text and some history.
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Where is the spell check?? smiles..
In 1986 the WSO asked the fellowship if they could correct bad punctuation and fix some poorly written sentences in the 3rd edition revised. Done through the proper channels (CAR) this was approved and WSO hired some professionals to fix the text. When it was put...
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maybe a low awareness of site?
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any time i go on to the chat room there is noone there! is it always like that or am i just unlucky with the times i choose to go online??!!
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elaine
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Depression in recovery
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While I admit I am not the greatest in recovery I am certainly not the worst example. I don't like doing these posts, but sometimes to get some insight one has to do what isn't always easy.
I am writing this post because I am suffering the most severe depression I have ever encountered sober. Yes...
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I'm an Addict Trying to Recover
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I would like to here how others work and apply the steps into their daily reprieve..... How about the traditions? How do we work them into our daily adventures? Please help....thanking each and everyone of you in advance!
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peachz
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How aout a slightly anonymous picture of yourself
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Heres mine, I was out fishing DUH  yes i'm a weight lifter, it's one of my hobbies fishing is another .
So we can get to know you better ( now where have i heard that before )
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Coke
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Hi, I'm new and have been thinking about attending NA but think this is better for me as I can remain anonymous. I've been using coke for almost a year everyday, all day. I do it at work, in the car, while I'm at the store, etc.......I won't leave the house without enough to last me for the day....
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Jenna
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Went to NA birthday meeting tonight
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4 guys 30 years of recovery. A lady spoke after the Bday people shared she had 31 years by herself of recovery and is a traveling speaker, 15,000 miles traveling last year to speaker meetings and conventions she even went to Japan top speak 2 people understood engilsh in the meeting LOL They had a transl...
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BigV
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Checking in
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Hi everyone,
It's been a while since I've done a check-in. Then my account was deleted?!? So I wasn't even posting or reading here too much. (Thanks, V, for helping with that.)
Nonetheless, life goes on, as you all know.
My husband recently celebrated 21 years clean. I was able to pass along my 21...
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Blithe Spirit
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Square peg
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A while back I was looking at our service symblol and saw somthing neat. looking at it in 2 demension (as we normaly see it) it looks like a sguare peg in a round whole. It reminded me of just how I felt my whole life. I just didnt fit in. I dont ever remember feeling OK in my own skin. Sure I had a few friends gro...
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ANJ
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I put this in an oold thread so I thought I would make a new one (poetry from my past)
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The Past there are times of circle and rhymes, that seem to last forever, First of sadness then of pleasure, The past keeps its existence, I keep my insistence, Shadows fall, Shadows call, Listen to their voices, Don't be a fool, you have your choices. Why does the past keep coming back, Just to see me hu...
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Manon
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I hope we all read the Just for Today
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Today Eeeeks boy that spoke to me my head can run like a crazy, it runs very subtly a faint whisper or it YELLS at me but it's always runnin and it aint always good LOL http://jftna.org/jft/index.php
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BigV
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Claiming my seat.
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Hi my name is Dave m and I am an addict. I just wanted to claim my seat. I am newly coming back to the halls and now really begining to understand the incidousness of our disease. I had previously had over a year under my belt and my thinking was yes I am cured. I thought I could use alcohol, I forgot that alcoho...
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Dave m
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whats the big deal about spirituality
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I would like to know why everyone thinks that w/o spirituality you can not stay sober
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Juicy
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Hey Guys,
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I haven't been posting much so i thought id just give an update. I have 140 days clean today, It has been a ride . Not a great one at times . Not a bad one at other times. I'm continuing meetings Two a day on most days. I'm working on a first step though i must admit i'm dragging my ass on it. That brings littl...
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AnthonyG
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desperate
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This is all new to me but I recognize that I need help. I;m not sure where I belong. I am 50 and gave up an eating disorder 2 years ago after 35 years.Worked hard and feel proud. But now I find I get fits of rage and I take a benzo or sleep aid to calm down and I turn into a raving suicidal ragaholic and I have total b...
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issy
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terrified of the thought of losing him
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My name is Kristi. I am an addict. i was married a couple years back to a fellow addict. enabler to each other. long story short, it ended terribly. I got 2 dwi's, he was kicked out of the Marine Corps for drug use. it's a sad american story. i moved away to Illinois and started working at Olive Garden. I met h...
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Where'd yawl go yawl go out and get a life or something LOL
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postings down whats up wit dat? I had a nice weekend with family my little niece got baptized they live in San Francisco area, bad thing was my niece had the flu and she gave it to just about everyone, she's afraid of me so I didnt get to hold her so i'm a clean bill of health but darn near everyone else has got i...
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BigV
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it never rains it pours
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well it seems thst breaking my hand is not enough i have been felling like shit latly and today i wake up to my legs swoillen up about 3 times the size they should br soo the dr to find out that my liver is in distress whatever that means and that i am in some real shit here so if you all will pray for me i woulde rea...
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rocky
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Oprah's Show on Monday
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Don't know if anyone watched the Oprah's show today, but it was about heroin addiction in Richland County Ohio...that's my birthplace and has been my home until the last few weeks! There was a lady named Merry on there, I was friends with her in early recovery. She went to prison and I lost track of her. T...
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ItsAllGolden
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Hope, Surrender, and Acceptance
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"Recovery begins with surrender." Basic Text Pg 86 Living hopeless is a way of life for an addict. When I came to NA it had been a long time since I had felt any hope. I wanted to believe that I could experience the kind of life that I saw others in NA enjoying, but once...
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