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Service and personal recovery
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Yesterday, I attended a rather disappointing area service meeting and walked out in a sad mood. It triggered a lot of questions, gushing out of my sadness and frustration, all at once. I wonder why we just can't follow the Steps, Traditions, Concepts, Guide To Local Services and other handbooks and g...
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What if?
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I'm am an opiate addict. My question is, what if I am in a serious accident, or have an operation that requires pain medication. What do you do, do you use narcotic pain medication according to how it is prescribed? I know you are not supposed to use this kind of medication at all. But tylenol and ibuprofe...
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my sponsee is having heart surgery
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i have to leave soon.the surgery is in toronto.
i know i have to leave this in Gods hands.
but i went with him to a meeting last night,rather than doing the online one here.
love you folks.
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Not NA but could use some ESH
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Hello everyone, I normally post at the Al-Anon part of this site but I am in need of some serious ESH. I also attend f2f Al-Anon and Naranon meetings.
My sister is addicted to prescription pain medications. She is on a lot of medications prescribed by physicians.&...
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hospital
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I am going to a detox program friday-monday-i have to get away from here, from all these people around me-get it out of my system-and i am scared
I'm not ready to tell family, I am going to tell them I have a training seminar to go to for my drug counseling class - i am scared but relived that i will be able to...
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tomorrow
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School starts back for me tomorrow. I'm nervous, because I won't have my pills to get through the day, but I think it may help not to be sitting here at home just thinking about using all day (because I've shown myself that that only gets me into trouble!) Plus my sister and brother-in-law are in most of my...
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Update; Family Death
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Hi Family,
As many of you now know, two of my aunts were brutally murdered in Fort Myers, Fla. on the 10th of Sept, two weeks ago.
Well, on Saturday, Sept 23rd, the person who murdered them was caught in Topeka, Kanas and is now in jail there. He was identified by finger prints and other forscen...
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I need a sponsor
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Hey everyone! I am working on my fourth step and just realized how desperately I need a sponsor. Someone please help!
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Still needing a sponsor!
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My email is lisaerogers@hotmail.com
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im done !!
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well im back and yes ive bben doing herion! ive decided that im gonna try ice now i heard it will take away the pain ive been feeling.now i know bigv dont like me but to tell you the truth i dont like bigv either because when a guy or girl expresses their feeling and troubles they shouldnt be called a liar in sa...
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day 4
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not feeling so great...those crazy emotions are running me over again. I thought I was all cried out, but I guess I was wrong. I'm waiting for that feeling of being at home in the meetings, of feeling like it was my "safe place", as another person described it, but it's not. Last night, after the meeting,...
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Hi Ahmed
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Greetings Ahmed,
I have seen you log on to our forum a couple of times in the last 3-4 days... and was wondering how you are doing lately?
Hope you are doing fine... thought of you a few times too...
Hugs and Prayers ~ Tahir from India.
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question
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this is strictly hypothetical, i don't plan on slipping again, but given my history I just want to know....when you're working the steps, if you do slip, it'll do you no good to lie about it right? you must tell and start the steps over again? my "voice" is telling me "you could have a couple and noone woul...
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Wednesday night's meeting
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I apologize to everyone that attended the Wednesday night meeting. As you all saw I was logged in but did not participate. I logged in 2 or 3 hours early and ended up falling asleep and sleeping through the meeting because I use my computer while laying in my bed. I could have kicked myself in the face for h...
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I finally did it.
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I finally made it to my first outside meeting in months. It was great. Feels good to be a part of the fellowship again. Just wanted to sharee that with you guys. I'm doing it! hehe
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Technical Q
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Is there anyplace I can adjust settings? Posts are not listed on my screen according to most recent. They are somewhat sorted, but it shows posts made like 2 hours ago, then 30 minutes ago, then 8 hours ago, then 3 hours.... on down the page it might show posts made several days ago, then rig...
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HELPING A NEWCOMER
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WOW, i CAN'T TELL YOU THE FEEL GOOD'S i HAVE BEEN GETTING LATELY BY HELPING TWO NEWCOMER LADIES THAT HAVE MADE THEIR WAY TO THE ROOMS OF NA. bOY DO i REMEMBER COMING INTO THE ROOMS SO SCARED, BEATEN DOWN AND NOT KNOWING WHAT TO EXPECT, I DIDN'T KNOW ANYONE AND REALLY DIDN'T WANT TO. ALL I KNEW WAS THAT...
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groovy practice meeting
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well last night at 900 we had a practice meeting.we had about 6 guests an all but two were members of the board.if we here more from our members from india,we could have one noon meeting that would be nine at night for them.
come to the meetings,we need you
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whats up with the meeting?
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Welcome to the Fellowship
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Welcome to the fellowship Here take this chair When you walked through our doors We'll show you that we care
We will love you Until you can love yourself Put the plug in the jug Keep the drugs on the shelf
All you need is a desire to stop That's all it takes to join our way We'll share our program Show you h...
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sponsor
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my sponsor isn't so nice anymore I don't mean that in a bad way, he's just not letting me get away with my excuses and pity party anymore-my natural tendency, when someone calls me on my bullshit or whatever, is to go get high and say screw them. I guess it is really time to make a decision to really wor...
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Where's Everybody?
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I see that there are some 50 to 60 members at this forum till date, but I only find 4 to 5 of them sharing their experience, strength and hope regularly since I joined. I would really love it if everyone shares their experience, strength and hope here at the forum so that I benefit more... I need you all in my...
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Hi everyone
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Hi folks, I'm new to this site my good friend Dalin told me about it. I have been reading some of the posts and you guys sound like the loving and supportive people I meet at NA meetings so I'm gona stick around! Just a little about me, I'm comming up to 16 months clean , have an amazing sponsor who helps me sta...
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What is everyone doing right now?
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Just for today I will focus on my recovery.
I just got my na literature in the mail today. I ordered the na book, the aa big book and the na step working guides. I started over on my first step now that I have the guides. I've just been working on that for the last hour or so.
I'm pretty much just relaxing ri...
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I started my fourth step
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So far so good! yay.
Im just basically keeping my journal with me everywhere i go and when I think of something writing it down. FOr some reason it was set in my head that I had to sit down and do my fourth step all at one time. And for me I feel it's better to just take it as it comes. I know alot of people say don...
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i'm showing the world
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Hey guy i'm pretty new to this and i have been lookin for help for awhile now. I have a really bad crack problem and i have tryed to stop many times. A ton of people have told me way to try and stop and none work so far. All i think about is that sweet sweet smoke in my lunges. Me and my friends if u can call th...
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slipping
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I've been picking up the court ordered woman and taking them to the meetings. Last night when I got to their house, one of them handed me 3 pain pills, I know I should have refused, but I took them all right there. well, I don't have much else to say, just that I can feel my resolve slipping away...
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im cheating! help me
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 hi ive been in rehab for 6 months and ive been out for 2 weeks while i was in there a guy told me how to cheat at my herion addiction.He told me to keep them from seeing tracks i need to shoot heroin into my testicals so i did that !! yes it hurts but the feeling of the heroin is so much stronger now and t...
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sponsorship issues
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yea,things have been tense lately.
my girlfreind had to let one of hers go because she refusedto take any sugestions,and refused to make 90 in 90.hell she just relapsed.i guess some folks refuse to surender.well they wont run out of dope out there.
i also had to let go of one of mine.when someone fa...
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guilt
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one of my biggest problems is the overwhelming guilt I feel over the kind of person I have been, the kind of mother, daughter,friend,etc. I wasn't feeling anything when I was using all the time, and now what do I do with this guilt? I know, you'd think that would be the only incentive I would need, but it fe...
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