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10-21-2009, 01:18 PM
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| The New Me starting 1/11/09  Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: California
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| What is recovery?
Recovery is having your dog poop, not once, not twice, but THREE times on your brand new deck that you just finished staining a few days ago ... ... and rather than going on some sort of anger binge ... saying to yourself "Well, I guess it probably was a more comfortable place for him to poop. We'll just have to let him know that the grass is better." What a difference a few life coping tools make (and no alcohol). I just laughed to myself, so thought I would share.
__________________ The New Me as of 1/11/09 Still searching for that darn wisdom to know the difference. Do you know where I can find some? |
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10-21-2009, 02:02 PM
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| Forum Leader  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Scottsdale, AZ, one big happy dysfunctional family!
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Hey, **** happens!  Thanks for sharing 
__________________ "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty, and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming---*WOW-What a ride*!" |
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10-21-2009, 04:49 PM
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| boleon  Join Date: May 2008 Location: Detroit, MI
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For me recovery means more than an "end of drinking". It means an "end of suffering" (nirodha) as well.
__________________  >>> If it makes sense - It ain't spiritual! - All Big Book quotes are from first Edition - |
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10-21-2009, 05:16 PM
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ACCEPTANCE... of People, Places and Things Just the way they should be. That includes pets as I have 2 cats and one bird myself. 
__________________ "A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED" SHARON B.  Baton Rouge, La. 8-11-90 I turn my will and life over to the care of a Power greater than I on a daily bases for guidance, care and protection. |
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11-17-2009, 01:18 AM
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Medication/Treatment While many people are frustrated by the process of finding the right medications and the side effects of medications, most persons with a psychiatric disorder indicate that medications are critical to their success (Sullivan, 1997). For many, the goal is not to be medication-free, but to take the least amount necessary. Likewise, mental health consumers often report that mental health professionals and treatment programs are valuable to their recovery. Especially when consumers feel they are engaged in a partnership with their treatment provider and are involved in their treatment planning.  |
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11-17-2009, 10:12 AM
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| ٩(-̮̮̃•̃)۶  |  carlin7386 to SoberRecovery. I hope your experience here will be a healing one.
__________________ My ❀ Name ☯ Is ❤ Will G ☞  禅 “The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.”― Leo Buscaglia |
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11-19-2009, 06:31 AM
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Thx Omega, Really like your connection between recovery and sanity! Not so sure about restoration in my case though. More like striving for something I never had before... |
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12-24-2009, 09:55 AM
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Recovery is becoming a new person. Even a new soul. That is all.
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12-24-2009, 01:22 PM
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For me recovery is the process that brings me into an state of being recovered. I define that as having a treatment program that address the symptoms of my addiction (recovery) until my symptoms are no longer interfering with my ability to live a wholesome and fulling drug free life (recovered). Then its a matter of maintaining my recovered state with a continuing maintenance plan.
__________________ My ❀ Name ☯ Is ❤ Will G ☞ 禅 “The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.”― Leo Buscaglia |
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04-07-2010, 01:38 PM
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Recovery, for me, is a whole new way of living. It's not drinking and being happy about it.
__________________ I'd rather live in my car with my dogs than live in a castle without them. Dogs may not be our whole lives, but they make our lives whole. Don't wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day. -Albert Camus Find the good and praise it. - Alex Haley |
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04-20-2010, 07:58 PM
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Recovery is the act of recovering. the definition of recover according to Webster is: 1 : to get back : regain 2 a : to bring back to normal position or condition <stumbled, then recovered himself> b archaic : rescue 3 a : to make up for <recover increased costs through higher prices> b : to gain by legal process 4 archaic : reach 5 : to find or identify again <recover a comet> 6 a : to obtain from an ore, a waste product, or a by-product b : to save from loss and restore to usefulness : reclaim intransitive verb 1 : to regain a normal position or condition (as of health) <recovering from a cold> 2 : to obtain a final legal judgment in one's favor |
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04-28-2010, 06:46 PM
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I think recovery for me will be a kind of rebirth if you will. I started drinking in my late teens heavily and so I feel like I really haven't grown up yet. Any situation which required me to grow up and be responsible, I just couldn't cope with and drank my feelings away. This is kind of scary to me as I will need to face all those situations without alcohol and grow up and be responsible rather than run away.....and hide. It certainly will be interesting........ |
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04-29-2010, 02:53 AM
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I feel..recovery means switching to new life.... |
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04-29-2010, 09:35 AM
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There are many terms in this journey that I have found to be subjective; some of them would be.....: alcoholic; alcoholism; sober; sobriety; and those ever-popular recovery; recovering; and recovered..... My feeling is I get to define those for me, and ONLY me; nobody gets to define those terms for me, and I don't get to define those term for anybody else...... (o: For me 'sober' and 'clean' can be used interchangably, however, if I'm in an AA meeting I use terms such as 'alcoholic' and 'sober' and when in an NA meeting I use terms such as 'addict' and 'clean' ..... "...some people associate being sober with alcohol alone and being clean with drugs..." I've found this to be the case because NA (the organization and its members) brought out the term 'clean' to mean free from all mind-altering substances and AA (the organization, not AAer's) has its 'Singleness of Purpose' and has defined the term 'sobriety' to mean 'freedom from alcohol' (note they only say freedom from alcohol, and not freedom from all mind-altering substances; if they did that then they would be NA). I'm an 'alcoholic/addict' (a redundancy) who is 'clean and sober' (another redundancy)...... Think I'll make myself truly redundant and leave this forum, least for a while, that is........ (o: NoelleR |
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04-30-2010, 07:25 PM
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| Awakening...  Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: in the present
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Recovery for me is a transformation. Shedding the old, sick self, for a new self.
__________________ I am not who I think I am. All quotes from the 1st Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous (aka The Big Book) |
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05-09-2010, 07:04 PM
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recovery is abstinance from all mind altering drugs, right? crys
__________________ lifes what you make it,  so lets make it right |
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05-10-2010, 11:51 AM
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i tried to write again yesterday after this post and it wouldnt let me...i didnt read all of the posts before me, like i should have,... i know its more than just abstaining, but im not sure, like how long does it take to feel better about yourself, because i feel like i will never fully be in "recovery" and its very depressing crys
__________________ lifes what you make it, so lets make it right |
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05-10-2010, 12:04 PM
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crys... yea, sometimes it feels like that... have you really, with all your heart and with complete honesty, begun to work the 12 steps? Faith.... get some ... It gets better, it really does.
__________________ "Be Kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle."....Philo of Alexandria "Your fear of the future is your greatest mistake." .... Stephen Kellogg |
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05-10-2010, 09:28 PM
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| CFH  Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Merritt Island, Fl
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Recovery to me is..... Realizing that it is none of my business what others think of me, that my value is mine alone. Motives, keeping them on track. Regarding each day as a blessing, and thanking God for them. Living life to MY full potential not someone elses. Always help someone if you can. Almost forgot, dont drink or drug. That is a very small part of my recovery today. |
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05-11-2010, 11:14 AM
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i do have a sponsor, jsut got one last month, but she doesnt seem available most of the time, i have read some of the big book, got throgh the chapter of the agnostic, which to me is saying there should be no such thing as an "agnostic" that you MUST believe in some kind of higher power, which i do, i jsut dont know why if there is WHY i've gone through all of this hell i do have faith, faith that SOME day i will be restored to sanity, i feel so messed up right now that it is hard to have hope, but i am trying crys
__________________ lifes what you make it, so lets make it right |
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07-25-2010, 08:34 AM
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| Grouch and Brainstorm  Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: New Jersey
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Recovery is a very specific thing-- the psychic change brought about by working the 12 steps with a sponsor. It's not a result of making meetings, making coffee, emptying ashtrays. If you are an alcoholic as described in the Big Book-- in a completely hopeless state-- you will not recover by "not drinking and going to meetings" alone. This program is not mysterious. It's very clear. Do the work in our text book. |
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