2- If you're looking to have an image in NA, look around at the meetings you go to and take a look at whom you're trying to impress.
3- An addict is a person who wants to be held while he's isolating.
4- addiction is the leading cause of relapse.
5- A treatment center is where you go and pay $25,000 to find out that NA meetings are free.
6- The idea that alcoholics, drug addicts, sex addicts, overeaters, smokers, etc, etc, should all just go to NA Meetings because a disease, is a disease, is a disease... was started by a treatment center that only had one van.
7- This is a ' JUST FOR TODAY' program. If you are clean and sober today, you are tied for first place in NA.
8- If USING is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy USER. If work is interfering with your USING, you're probably an ADDICT.
9- I often obsessively pursue feeling good, no matter how bad it makes me feel.
10- When I was new, I didn't think I had any obsessions until I started thinking about it. Then it was all I could think about.
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
So true, that thing about denial, that we don't even know that we are lying... this symptom called denial is what tells me that I don't have a disease at all... that I have it all under control... that I can manage my life... and all thru this, I'm not even aware that I'm in denial when I think, feel and behave like that...
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
