Am I too involved with this forum?
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Am I too involved with this forum?
I've been reading here almost every day. I feel like it's my fb, only instead of fb, I come here. I check in at least once a day to see whats up, read what everyone is up to, comment, etc.
Maybe I just like the sense of community and the feeling of support and understanding.
Maybe this place becomes like another venue to be a codie. I mean...look at all the time we spend helping each other.
Maybe I just like the sense of community and the feeling of support and understanding.
Maybe this place becomes like another venue to be a codie. I mean...look at all the time we spend helping each other.
same planet...different world
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Butte, America
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I've been on SR since 2006...
I don't care if anyone considers that a problem...
I'm sober... and it's working.
I think anything is a 'problem'
when we do that 'thing'
in the place of facing the world 'out there'.
I mean,
if you were coming here
and not getting groceries
or not going to work
or something like that
then it'd be something to look at?
I don't care if anyone considers that a problem...
I'm sober... and it's working.
I think anything is a 'problem'
when we do that 'thing'
in the place of facing the world 'out there'.
I mean,
if you were coming here
and not getting groceries
or not going to work
or something like that
then it'd be something to look at?
same planet...different world
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Butte, America
Posts: 10,946
emotional mental, spiritual... yeah.
As long as we're not using this forum to AVOID doing anything...
that's the best this alcoholic can come to defining the mystery word..."MODERATION".
Which for me is just a word between MAYHEM and MUNDANE in the dictionary.
As long as we're not using this forum to AVOID doing anything...
that's the best this alcoholic can come to defining the mystery word..."MODERATION".
Which for me is just a word between MAYHEM and MUNDANE in the dictionary.
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Join Date: Sep 2009
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KP- I use to wonder that myself too. Sometimes I would think that by coming here I was somehow holding on to my XA and the idea of him and thought that I wasn't truly allowing myself to let go.
But there have been many times when I have started to cry or go into magical thinking mode and then I come here and it is a jolt back into reality and it's a big reminder that him not being in my life is nothing to cry over!
Some days I certainly spend more time here than others. But there is definitely a sort of cyber friendship that goes on here and it can be very comforting. I have a lot of respect for everyone here, even if there are not always agreements. I actually view everyone here as having great strength and being that those are the kinds of people that I want in my life, I don't think that anyone can spend too much time here!..... yes, unless of course you are not going to get groceries or shower because you can't pull away from here!
But there have been many times when I have started to cry or go into magical thinking mode and then I come here and it is a jolt back into reality and it's a big reminder that him not being in my life is nothing to cry over!
Some days I certainly spend more time here than others. But there is definitely a sort of cyber friendship that goes on here and it can be very comforting. I have a lot of respect for everyone here, even if there are not always agreements. I actually view everyone here as having great strength and being that those are the kinds of people that I want in my life, I don't think that anyone can spend too much time here!..... yes, unless of course you are not going to get groceries or shower because you can't pull away from here!
Go ask the Multivax
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 2,481
I spend way too much time here lately. But, there are no ill effects? The things I take from SR (all of it) run into my daily life and connections. It feels like I'm going to ten meetings a week instead of the three I actually go to.
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Waterford MI
Posts: 4,202
Too much Sober Recovery?
Nah....
I keep this window open all the time.
If nothing new is posted, I go back and read other stuff.
So much to read and learn.
It was sooooo helpful to tell my 17 year old daughter that she is not the only one who was suffering like she was with a drug addicted boyfriend.
When she heard the same words coming from women who were in pain, she heard what I had to say about it will not improve.
He will always go back to the heroin. She has a future, he does not.
Thank you all for sharing all your feelings here.
My daughter now knows she is not alone, and it is better to let him go.
Beth
Nah....
I keep this window open all the time.
If nothing new is posted, I go back and read other stuff.
So much to read and learn.
It was sooooo helpful to tell my 17 year old daughter that she is not the only one who was suffering like she was with a drug addicted boyfriend.
When she heard the same words coming from women who were in pain, she heard what I had to say about it will not improve.
He will always go back to the heroin. She has a future, he does not.
Thank you all for sharing all your feelings here.
My daughter now knows she is not alone, and it is better to let him go.
Beth
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 566
Yeah, I'm looking at my computer time overall...I need to re-evaluate how much time I'm in front of the screen now that I'm doing better. I feel like I need to make some developments in my life away from the computer now, but still while checking in. Summer is coming, and I have some hobbies to develop. I'm getting a life. 
That being said, I couldn't have done any of this w/o SR and will stay on here to ask for support and to "give back." Lifesaver, this is.
So grateful,
posie
That being said, I couldn't have done any of this w/o SR and will stay on here to ask for support and to "give back." Lifesaver, this is.
So grateful,
posie
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Southwest
Posts: 1,207
I don't know...I get so much insight and clarity from reading posts that are not by me or don't relate specifically to my situation - only to find out wisdom that is directed specifically at me.
I love it.
I love it.
I like it here.
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