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No matter what
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"We eventually have to stand on our own feet and face life on its own terms, so why not from the start." Basic Text p.85 Some of us feel that we should protect newcomers by telling them that, while everything used to be horrible, now we're in recovery it's all wonderful. We feel that we might...
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BigV
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Gratitude List Just For Today...
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I'm grateful to have gotten a lot of inspiration, strength and hope from reading the recent posts here by many of you. It's great stuff, just what I need, as if my Higher Power has chosen to speak to me through MIP, as it has so often happened in my recovery for a long time now. Thank you so much for sharing an...
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Tahir
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New guy
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Hi there, My name is Steve. I've been recovering for four years now on my own. I had a bad addiction to meth. My solution was to pick up and move hundreds of miles from my home town. I wound up volunterring my time. This all worked out good for me. The problem I'm haveing now and could use some advice on is this...
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SCARED
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well my morning will start @ 8 am with housing authority then to a renal scan then to the specialist about this blockage I am really worried to find everything out I seem to be being hit by a double whammy but I am still trucking on or trying my best without falling apart. I will post an update as I return from...
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Manon
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Touch base with nature,,,
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What a day that was,,, drove 100 miles to a PI meeting. Then took a walk on the coast. In the meanwhile i was getting bad vibes form the newer member from UK and an NA who was a refugee. They didnt want to walk,, so instead of going with the so called majority off i went for a 3 mile walk. Glad I did,,glad I decide...
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Raman
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A Busy Life
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Hi Family, I'm Dan, an addict in recovery. Been a while since I posted so I wanted to check in. I was thinking about all those "lost week-ends" today as mine winds down. (I work Saturday thru Wednesday, off Thurs and Fri) I came back to work tonight (3rd shift) and I'm pretty tired but I have a n...
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dan h
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I need a tangent...
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I am not looking for pity, nor am I sitting around boo-hoo'ing (at the moment)...I just need to go off on a blind rant. I'm really sick and tired at the moment of all this shit that life has been throwing at me. I moved to Georgia filled with a hope that I have not had since very early on in recovery. A hope of a b...
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Here is my story.
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Well it started when i was about 8 years old i started smoking and drinking and never really stopped and by the time i was 13 i was locked up in a juvenile justice centre for people under 16 because of my durg and alcohol use i would steal to buy drugs and alcohol and i would burgle houses and even started to mu...
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New to the board, not so new to to heartache of a mother
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Anyone out there know the pain of a mother whose son has lost his way to drugs and alcohol? My son has been through the ip/op process, residential treatment, halfway house, meetings and more meetings. All by age 22. Now "he's on his own" - living with another addict in recovery but who has...
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God of My Mis-Understanding
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I have a beautiful friend that always says her Higher Power is the God of her Misunderstanding...mostly due to the fact that she's always tried to figure out the whole God concept, something concrete and understandable, and was always left empty-handed since there's so much that remains a mystery i...
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Meetings here in UK !!
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Hi Dean,Vin,Tahir,Dan,Anrthony,Blithe and all you lovely folks. I really am seeing a difference here in meetings from the way we do it in India and presumably in US. Here they refer to each other freely in sharings. An example when X is sharing he /she amy well say "You said in your sharing tha etc...
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higher power...checking in.....
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just checking in to say hi while i have access to computer! 12 days clean by the way...had good treatment/therapy in the great white north eh? lotsa love too..amazing what being off those damn pills can do in a short while! hard work but good things already happening! found out what i realized all along...
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justtina
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recovery and relapse
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today i am so grateful for the love and honesty of my circle of trusted friends in recovery, when my addict takes over and i isolate or whatever they call or i call them and the gift of recovery is magic when one addict talks to another sharing experiance strength and hope, god bless u all and i will take ano...
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galeon
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finally got the balls to talk
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first time posting...opiate addict in 1st week of sobriety for over 8 yrs...just had the biggest scare of my life as almost lost professional licensure...did lose job though as an end result of long term addiction and all the lying bullshit that goes with it...3rd one in less than 2 years becuz of add...
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benzos,dex,morph hints help!!!!!!
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i need an old mate to help with benzos,dex,morph etc!!! please help
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Lost
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I am an addict my name is dave m. i could kick my self in the head. Why can't I get it right??
I just don't know what to do??
I am not lying to myself but I am to .......
I fea lthe helplessness.
I am afraid.
What do I do now??
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do you consider a suicide attempt with narcotics a relapse?
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December 1st a friend of mine took a bottle of narcotics and a bottle of sleeping pills. He is still alive and is doing well. Last night his sponsor announced that this same person who tried to commit suicide, is celebrating his first year clean on January 18. Did this person relapse? Should he be pic...
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Us guys should probably have our own forum to talk about
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WOMEN lol Ok those of you with wives or girlfriends know how DIFFICULT they can be, hey them girls were born on venus thats a lot further out there in space then Mars AHHHHHH HAHAHHAH So anyhow how much spirituality do you have to practice on a daily basis with them to keep life peaceful in the house? and w...
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Literature Writings of our Fellowship...
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"Traditions characterize a spiritually fit group of recovering addicts who find recovery in Narcotics Anonymous. When Traditions are violated, we have learned that fear has in some way gained a foothold. These fears justify wrongdoings. The only other possibility is simple ignorance. Vi...
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Relapse after time
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Hey guys, addict named jay. Got a chance to share tonight about surrender. It got me thinkin about that faitful night when I made the desicion to use after 8 years clean. I stuggled for 10 years just to get to the start of that 8. I was a broken shell of a humanbeing when I finialy surrendered to this progra...
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New Boy
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Hello to you all. I have recently found this forum as i know i have to change the pattern in my life. I am 30 years old and currently living in Wiltshire. I am originally from London and after several years of drug misuse ( weed, coke, E , MDMA) i feel i have to change and having read some of the posts on here, i f...
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its like myspace for recovery
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Newcomer?
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Newcomer to this message board here. I relapsed last year after 8 years and currently have about 22 hours clean and sober. I know it sounds stupid, but in all honesty I'm not even sure if I want to stop. But I am 100% sure that I want my life to stop spiraling downward. When I chose to pick up I was in an INSANE r...
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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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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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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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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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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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