Old 05-28-2013, 04:47 PM
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Threshold
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It can be really tricky, especially in the early days, to swap addictions..because we get that antsy feeling and think we NEED to do something to make it go away.

I had to keep asking myself "is this really going to help?" when I started "going there"....I had a mantra...food is not the answer, pills are not the answer, booze is not the answer, sex is not the answer, cutting is not the answer...

even if it meant sitting on my hands singing Yankee Doodle...I was NOT going to do anything that was going to make anything worse.

Like you, I learned that one the icky way in my early days.

Shake it off. Now you know sexing up random people is NOT the answer, and it makes you feel gross..so, don't go there again.

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