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jayson cole


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www.naworks.org Phila. Region Web Address.

September 5
Not Hopelessly Bad

"We find that we suffer from a disease, not a moral dilemma. We were critically ill, not hopelessly bad."

Basic Text p.16

For many of us, Narcotics Anonymous was the answer to a personal puzzle of long standing. Why did we always feel alone, even in a crowd, we wondered? Why did we do so many crazy, self-destructive things? Why did we feel so badly about ourselves so much of the time? And how had our lives gotten so messed up? We thought we were hopelessly bad, or perhaps hopelessly insane.

Given that, it was a great relief to learn we suffered from a disease. Addiction - that was the source of our problems. A disease, we realized, could be treated. And when we treat our disease, we can begin to recover.

Today, when we see symptoms of our disease resurfacing in our lives, we need not despair. After all, it's a treatable disease we have, not a moral dilemma. We can be grateful we can recover from the disease of addiction through the application of the Twelve Steps of NA.

Just for today: I am grateful that I have a treatable disease, not a moral dilemma. I will continue applying the treatment for the disease of addiction by practicing the NA program.

pg. 259

Back to: Just For Today Page of NAWORKS.org



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Everytime, thanks for the post. This note is a good reassurance.

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this is a good one for me to read today. I have been having allot of shame about my past lately and feeling different and worse than everybody else - even in meetings even though i know that thats bullshit. i just want to go to confession or do a fourth step or something to absolve me.

My sponsor told me to read the NA book first and yesterday I finished the book, the last page of the last story i read it cover to cover (what a great book too). Anyways I called her and told her "can we start a fourth step now?" and she said "no now we start step 1." lol.
I see now that i need to slow down and stop trying to rush through my recovery and I'm working on step one in the how and why step guide, man theres allot of questions so this is going to take awhile. but at least its going to be thorough and thats the most important thing.

Yall will never believe where i worked this morning. In a newspaper office! stuffing envelopes and sorting papers and doing all kinds of errands. it was great. Its not a permanent gig but its good experience for someone like me

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