AnodyneShift

Seriously. I do my second column work for six or seven people and feel like I've worked a full workday.

Is this normal/par for the course, or am I especially insane?

Dave

TheJungianThing

It can be. My first was somewhat cathartic and so have been a few others but not nearly as much as the first. In my first case I was still sort of toxic and really still obsessed with drinking, couple that with the metabolic changes going on plus some inner resistance as I progressed.

Tommyh

emotions can sometimes drain us
mine did
doing the 4th the first time was a emotional thing but i hung in there

better than drinking

EricL

If you're doing right, it will be exhausting and disturbing.

It sounds like you are doing it right.

Keep going.

shaun00

Yep...........mine was certainly draining on a emotional/mental level.

I became convinced, i needed to be free of all the drama and pain, all that hate and delusion.
I have experience of what happens when i don't do this exercise....and it far out-weighs the uncomfortable stuff of completing it . ..

suggestions ...... don't linger, get it done ASAP.......plan with sponsor to meet for step 5 on completion of 4..ASAP..

Sounds like your getting to the root of the troubles....keep at it and good luck.

Music

In a word.....YES!!

laurie6781

Sounds like you are on 'the right track'!

When I finished my 4th step, I felt like a very limp, very small piece of spaghetti noodle. But I also felt relieved, ecstatic, and ready to head to my sponsor's house.

Keep going, you too will feel different and relieved.

J M H O

Love and hugs,

AnodyneShift

Thanks guys...I guess I'm glad I'm doing it right...
I need a nap. Or several of them in rapid succession.

D

Boleo

Catch 22 - If you can see your insanity, you are not insane.

Step 4 corollary - The more you put into it, the more you get out of it.

camedown

Yep, mine was. There were some things that I would write down, and then have to walk away from for ten or twenty minutes until I calmed down and could write another thing down. A few events took me a couple of weeks, but once I got through the big ones, I finished the rest in a couple of nights. I should note it was my first fourth step, and I have many more ahead of me. I think the next ones will be easier now that I see the rewards of it.