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01-11-2008, 07:28 AM
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| Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Dickinson
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| Relapse I have recently relapsed again on New Years Eve. It lasted for 3 days. I found in the midst of it all I had killed everything inside of me. My only solution at this point was to finish the job so I took a bottle of sleeping pills. Someone found me and I spent 4 days in icu. I have been working with my sponsor every since. I know I have to have an spiritual expierence to overcome the obsession so I have gotten busy. When I was in the ER at the hospital a thought came to me and it goes like this; why do you keep trying to take a life that doesn't belong to you? Today I don't want to die. I just want to be happy, joyous and free. Haley |
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01-11-2008, 07:33 AM
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What a powerful first post. Welcome to Sober Recovery, Haley. I'm so grateful you made it back. I too attempted suicide before and then during recovery, so I do understand. Keep reading, keep posting, keep sharing.
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01-11-2008, 08:29 AM
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| It is what it is!!!  Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Sobriety
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Thank you for sharing that with us. You very well may have saved another life, not just your own. I know 3 people that have relapsed in the last couple of weeks. One, did make it back  .I am glad you did.
__________________  I know more about how to live than I did yesterday, but not as much as I'll know tomorrow. Today, Ill learn something new~JFT, 1/27/06 The difference between a good day and a bad day, is about 2 days~Ann of SR |
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01-11-2008, 10:30 AM
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| Life the gift of recovery!  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Home is where the heart is
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Welcome to SR. Glad you were given a second lease on life. I hope you are able to use it wisely..
__________________ NOTE: All Big Book quotes are from the First Edition of the Big Book History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again. - Maya Angelou |
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01-11-2008, 11:23 AM
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| Forum Leader  Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Dancing in the Light
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Hi Hayley, Welcome! I am so glad that you have turned around your thinking. Sometimes it takes so much pain for us to be able to begin to live again. You will find lots of support here and I admire your courage.
__________________ Anna  "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou |
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01-12-2008, 03:34 AM
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| Community Greeter  Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Mid-Life Express
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Welcome to SR and thanks for sharing your experience with us. Keep posting I'm glad that you are still alive to post. hugs indigo
__________________ When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself." Namasté  |
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01-12-2008, 12:35 PM
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| We Do Recover  | Haley--thank you for being so open/honest with us about that experience. Someone once told me that we often live through some things--not that we get the benefit from it necessarily, but that it may be a benefit to someone else. I'm glad you are still here with us. God will most definitely use that post to reach someone else--I guarantee it.
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01-12-2008, 08:28 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Vancouver BC
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Dear Haley, know that you are a unique and precious soul, you have much to look forward to in your life, I am very glad you made it through all this safely. This is "Your Time" to move ahead and grow in your recovery. Embrace it and Embrace Yourself. Seren  |
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01-12-2008, 08:49 PM
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| Ephesians 2:8 and 9  |
Haleyy So glad you did not succeed. My sister made it thru a similar situation 1 1/2 years ago. She said she hated waking up w/ a tube down her throat, but after some time passed and the depression lifted she was so glad she lived. I reminded her that the Lord knows the number of her days and not to mess with that anymore. I pray you would stay active in your recovery and keep signing on here! blessings, Sheila |
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