My Dead Friends
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Fredericksburg, Va.
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Well I have one to add since we are throwing suicide in the mix, the man had 17 years sober, he never could get beyond his past, I never knew what was in his past until I read the mans obit......................... fist full of pills and he walked into a river leaving 2 kids without a father.
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Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 25
I like this post because it keeps me centered. Alcoholism truly is a slow suicide.
I liked to fashion myself on being a functional alcoholic...you know the guy that can still work, lead a somehwhat normal life, but concealed his alcoholism. I heard a speaker the other night comment, that when you take away the suicides and car accidents, "functioning alcoholics" are usually the ones that die of liver disease. They slowly kill themselves to death.
A guy in my AA group said his brother and father dies of alcoholism, but in the obituary, they listed it as "natural causes". It truly is a slow death, that saps your energy away, and eventually your life.
I liked to fashion myself on being a functional alcoholic...you know the guy that can still work, lead a somehwhat normal life, but concealed his alcoholism. I heard a speaker the other night comment, that when you take away the suicides and car accidents, "functioning alcoholics" are usually the ones that die of liver disease. They slowly kill themselves to death.
A guy in my AA group said his brother and father dies of alcoholism, but in the obituary, they listed it as "natural causes". It truly is a slow death, that saps your energy away, and eventually your life.
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: my room in ct.
Posts: 58,110
carol, think its about time to add another one to this list...
one who struggled for many years...
in and out of the rooms, and recovery...
28 years of trying...
30 on the dot rehabs...
one i was to marry, and SR's very own Miracal...
i have been through more then 38 deaths in my 5 plus years in recovery...
none has effected me more then trish...
and i say that in a good way...
RIP Trish!
your stil with us and me...
love...
your pattee
one who struggled for many years...
in and out of the rooms, and recovery...
28 years of trying...
30 on the dot rehabs...
one i was to marry, and SR's very own Miracal...
i have been through more then 38 deaths in my 5 plus years in recovery...
none has effected me more then trish...
and i say that in a good way...
RIP Trish!
your stil with us and me...
love...
your pattee
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 811
Wow, anyone who abuses alcohol should read this. Makes that committment that much stronger.
My uncle layed on the floor of his apartment for 2 days in bloody vomit until my mother found him. He survived about 2 months after that with a swollen belly, yellow skin, mean as heck to my mom who tried to help take care of him. I think he knew he was dying and had to lay there and think about his life and what he did to himself and his family.
My uncle layed on the floor of his apartment for 2 days in bloody vomit until my mother found him. He survived about 2 months after that with a swollen belly, yellow skin, mean as heck to my mom who tried to help take care of him. I think he knew he was dying and had to lay there and think about his life and what he did to himself and his family.
Attitude of Gratitude
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Posts: 2,305
I somehow missed this very powerful thread up until now. As I was reading through it, I couldn't help but notice several names of people who haven't been on SR since this thread originally started. Let's hope that none of them have been added to this list.
I hope they make it back.
Judy
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 38
Carol,
May I make a formal request please?
I ask that you make your post a permanent one, here at SR. Nothing has ever hit me quite so hard as that list you posted.
Perhaps we can have a permanent (running or closed) thread called "In Memorium" or "fallen friends", whatever. No chit chat, no editorials from us. Just a place we can go to add first names to the list.
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, has hit me as hard as your post here. It should never be "archived".
Please.
May I make a formal request please?
I ask that you make your post a permanent one, here at SR. Nothing has ever hit me quite so hard as that list you posted.
Perhaps we can have a permanent (running or closed) thread called "In Memorium" or "fallen friends", whatever. No chit chat, no editorials from us. Just a place we can go to add first names to the list.
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, has hit me as hard as your post here. It should never be "archived".
Please.
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Northeast US
Posts: 1,340
I want to add my friend. "D".
He was suicidally depressed and self-medicated with alcohol for years. He decided to go to a doctor for help and was prescribed a medication whose side effects made it impossible for him to drink. He killed himself less than two weeks later. He was 28. He will be dead two years next month. I loved him very much.
I'm going to a meeting now
He was suicidally depressed and self-medicated with alcohol for years. He decided to go to a doctor for help and was prescribed a medication whose side effects made it impossible for him to drink. He killed himself less than two weeks later. He was 28. He will be dead two years next month. I loved him very much.
I'm going to a meeting now
Forward we go...side by side-Rest In Peace
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Serene In Dixie
Posts: 36,740
Thank you Grace....
Dee is correct. Here is the link to Best of SR
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/best-soberrecovery/
There are many excellent shares here from
our earlier SR days too.
Dee is correct. Here is the link to Best of SR
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/best-soberrecovery/
There are many excellent shares here from
our earlier SR days too.
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