View Poll Results: Were/are you hopeless?
Were you hopeless and then recovered?
26
45.61%
Do you feel hopeless now & are willing to try anything?
6
10.53%
Do you feel hopeless & still want to try it your way?
7
12.28%
Are you working a program of recovery?
29
50.88%
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Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Fredericksburg, Va.
Posts: 9,730
Hopeless Poll!
Another thread mentioned some one feeling hopeless, I know I was, I have never done a poll here so I am not sure I will do this right, but here goes.
Looks like I figured it out!!! LOL
Looks like I figured it out!!! LOL
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: In Today
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Yeah, not only was I hopeless I knew I would die if I kept drinking and I knew I would die if I stopped, but wanted to die sober.
So I did (die that is and I was sober or dried out a whole 24 hours when I did). Then HP decided that I could stay around a while.
Recoverying has been and is quite a ride!!!! I love it so far!!!!
Love and hugs,
So I did (die that is and I was sober or dried out a whole 24 hours when I did). Then HP decided that I could stay around a while.
Recoverying has been and is quite a ride!!!! I love it so far!!!!
Love and hugs,
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: anomaly
Posts: 2,180
not really sure what the heck i was feeling before AA.
Incomprehenceable is how the 12 and 12 term it.
Not really sure if i was just numb out of my freaken mind to
feel anything ,but yet fear kind of rule over my head.
I guess you can call it hopeless becuase I think I felt that too
and anger , rage, depression, loneliness, despair. Everything
was screwie for me to try yo just put one term for it.
But i work a recovery program today. Even if i think i'm hopeless
today..i don't trip, Even if I don't belive i don't have faith..i don't trip.
it's like a knowing..becuase sometimes my head gose into a funk
so i nevermind my head. Dose that makesense ?
Kind of like I don't have to belive in AA but AA belive in me..dose that makesense ?
Incomprehenceable is how the 12 and 12 term it.
Not really sure if i was just numb out of my freaken mind to
feel anything ,but yet fear kind of rule over my head.
I guess you can call it hopeless becuase I think I felt that too
and anger , rage, depression, loneliness, despair. Everything
was screwie for me to try yo just put one term for it.
But i work a recovery program today. Even if i think i'm hopeless
today..i don't trip, Even if I don't belive i don't have faith..i don't trip.
it's like a knowing..becuase sometimes my head gose into a funk
so i nevermind my head. Dose that makesense ?
Kind of like I don't have to belive in AA but AA belive in me..dose that makesense ?
Member
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Highlands, TX
Posts: 1,192
I was totally without hope almost 3 years ago when I gave up, surrendered, and decided to try something different. My way wasn't working and I was so close to being dead.
Today I work a program of recovery and have plenty of hope along with many other blessings of letting go and letting God.
Hugs,
Kellye
Today I work a program of recovery and have plenty of hope along with many other blessings of letting go and letting God.
Hugs,
Kellye
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Back in the USA
Posts: 2,661
...........Had to ask myself a question..............
How bad do u want it??????
If u wanna quit drinking, how bad do ya wannit????
In my case, not bad enuf.................yet.
.....more to follow.......................
How bad do u want it??????
If u wanna quit drinking, how bad do ya wannit????
In my case, not bad enuf.................yet.
.....more to follow.......................
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Scottsdale, AZ, one big happy dysfunctional family!
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Interesting poll, Taz. I can definitely remember feeling hopeless in Feb. 2005.
I voted that I was working a program of recovery. But to me, using the word "working" implies that it's a chore. I prefer to think that I live and embrace a program of recovery, it helps me look forward to a fulfilling life in sobriety.
I voted that I was working a program of recovery. But to me, using the word "working" implies that it's a chore. I prefer to think that I live and embrace a program of recovery, it helps me look forward to a fulfilling life in sobriety.
Another Day in Paradise
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Upland, CA
Posts: 900
Hopeless and recover...ED. Recovered just for today. I have never quit drinking forever, I am not that strong, but I have been able to be recovered for a few thousand days, just one day at a time!
Like others have mentioned there are a couple of choices in the poll that fit me.
WOW!!! ain't it grand to have CHOICES these days?
Like others have mentioned there are a couple of choices in the poll that fit me.
WOW!!! ain't it grand to have CHOICES these days?
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Southern Oregon
Posts: 1,768
Originally Posted by laurie6781 
but wanted to die sober.
So I did (die that is and I was sober or dried out a whole 24 hours when I did). Then HP decided that I could stay around a while.
So I did (die that is and I was sober or dried out a whole 24 hours when I did). Then HP decided that I could stay around a while.
Taz, I marked the bottom one
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Fredericksburg, Va.
Posts: 9,730
The poll allows for more then one choice, although it may be slighty inaccurate I think it shows a couple of things.
1. It shows that almost all of us felt hopeless
2. It also shows that almost everyone who is now recovered or recovering are using a program to do so and not trying it on our own.
3. It shows that some of us have reached the point of being hopeless and are no willing to try any thing.
4. It also shows that some folks although feeling hopeless are still trying to do it thier way (Like I spent 10 years of my life before I became hopeless enough)
1. It shows that almost all of us felt hopeless
2. It also shows that almost everyone who is now recovered or recovering are using a program to do so and not trying it on our own.
3. It shows that some of us have reached the point of being hopeless and are no willing to try any thing.
4. It also shows that some folks although feeling hopeless are still trying to do it thier way (Like I spent 10 years of my life before I became hopeless enough)
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