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Post Info TOPIC: The meeting wasnt there!!!


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The meeting wasnt there!!!


cry Today I built up the nerve to go to my first meeting. Somebody went with me and when we got to the address it was a church service, I was humilliated, crying, shaking, I couldnt even talk. My friend held my hand the whole time while somebody tried to help us find the meeting, it was a big building. But it wasnt there! So now I have to get the nerve to try again. And it was really hard to walk into that building!



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well that sucks!! It has happened to me more than once, a suggestion and you may have followed this already, call the helpline first and talk to a person. It has been my experience that hotlines are the most up to date resource of where actual meetings are , remember this thing is run by drug addicts and as a group they move around...sometimes.

 

try again, it counts you tried to go to a meeting which means that you were honest and went looking for one, I don't think there is a bigger step in the right direction than that!!!

 

keep coming back!!!



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this is on your other post to

We all have been there with the fear of that first meeting. I am not sure where you got the meeting info and location, but at times our meeting lists change. Meetings move, cancel and change times. try this link for a schedule, and if you need a ride call the hotline # on the schedule or link and tell them you need someone to help with transportation. http://www.naindiana.org/meetings.php  click the blue central NA logo

For me I truly wanted to stop and was willing to do anything to do so, I was desperate to quit. I was sick and tired of being sick and tired..Almost quitting is like almost putting on a parachute before jumping on a plane. Know what your going through, I hated the daily routine and using to. In turn started to hate myself because I couldn't stop. So the more depressed I got the more drugs I did. The more drugs the more depressed..vicious cycle. I tried to stop dozens of times, would say I am never doing that again, and I would do it again. powerlessness..I didn't like what I had become and the way and means of using and getting more. I obsessed about it all day everyday. (unmanageable life, drugs were in control) I can't stop on my own power...am I going to have enough, trying to find some, counting etc...wasting day after day.........I would wake up in the morning and say ok this has got to last for the day, and next thing I new I was out by noon, and the ways and means cycle started again..like I said in an earlier post, getting clean can be a bear, but we all had to go through the misery in the beginning. get clean and go to a meeting tomorrow, don't give up after just one meeting, all meetings are different you will find a home. a good way to see which room a meeting is in when you go is get there about 10min early and you should see ppl standing outside some where. good luck, let me know how it goes. sorry I get long winded

  



-- Edited by Iamfree2day on Sunday 29th of May 2011 10:11:05 PM

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I am glad you got up the nerve to try to go to a meeting. Sorry it wasn't there. I hope you succeed next time.

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Yeah, this can happen.
When you go to NA.org it suggests that you call the area hotline for up to date meeting info.
Sucks that you went through all that just to get let down.
Keep coming back.


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You could have gone to the service, sometimes our higher power leads us to what we dont expect, something HE thinks is better then what we think we need, STAY OPEN MINDED AND WILLING these are essentials............

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