24Hour Recovery Connections Part 356
EnjoyingTheJourney
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Originally Posted by abcowboy 
“Someone who is trying to be sober is often trying to work out deeper emotional issues and is attempting to undo years of habitual behavior. When you reduce recovery to just abstinence, it simplifies what is really a much more complex issue.” - Sasha Bronner
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Just a chuckle to start out the day..........
Subject: Gotta Love Frank!
Mildred, the church gossip and self-appointed monitor of the church's
morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business.
Several members did not approve of her activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence & distance.
She made a mistake, however, when she accused Frank, a new member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the
town's only bar one afternoon. She emphatically told Frank, (and several others), that everyone seeing it there would know what he was
doing!
Frank, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just turned and walked away. He didn't explain, defend, or deny. He simply said
nothing.
Later that evening, Frank quietly parked his pickup in front of Mildred's house, walked home and left it there all night.
You gotta love Frank.
Subject: Gotta Love Frank!
Mildred, the church gossip and self-appointed monitor of the church's
morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business.
Several members did not approve of her activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence & distance.
She made a mistake, however, when she accused Frank, a new member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the
town's only bar one afternoon. She emphatically told Frank, (and several others), that everyone seeing it there would know what he was
doing!
Frank, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just turned and walked away. He didn't explain, defend, or deny. He simply said
nothing.
Later that evening, Frank quietly parked his pickup in front of Mildred's house, walked home and left it there all night.
You gotta love Frank.
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Originally Posted by zeppodog
Managed to go to work a couple hours and get caught up enough that I don't lose my job, it's only part time but pays ok and I don't want to lose it. Started having a bad panic attack and left in a hurry so nobody could see me like that. My wife is filing for a legal separation but said she supports me so have 6 months to save my marriage. going to call a treatment center close by and see when I can get in to talk to someone. I think I need more than counseling, I think some medication to curb my desire to drink. I'm reading up on what's out there.
Just remember this, "half measures availed us nothing......"
WE're all with you!
, Neoo
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Originally Posted by zeppodog
Oh I'll be checking in here a lot. If not drinking means just going to work and home for a while till I get over the worst of the cravings. I'll handcuff myself to the computer. Reading up on drugs that balance your brain chemicals so along with counseling they help curb the desire that makes alcoholics and druggies do what they do. there are several out there that work better than just counseling and meetings.
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Originally Posted by venuscat
Right here.....always available except for when I am asleep. 
And of course there are always lots of us here, so in between your reading and looking after yourself, you can come and get hugs and support and whatever you need.
♥
PS....Not just drugs....food, healthy food....it all helps balance your brain chemistry.
And of course there are always lots of us here, so in between your reading and looking after yourself, you can come and get hugs and support and whatever you need.
♥PS....Not just drugs....food, healthy food....it all helps balance your brain chemistry.
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Originally Posted by zeppodog
When I'm sober I eat well, work out, work on my art, walk my dogs and do stuff with my kids and wife, life is good when I'm sober and I don't know after a while what makes me go on a bender and they've made me sicker and sicker. I can ruin weeks or months of healthy happy living in a few days. Still shaking from the panic attack and lack of sleep. being an addict sucks.
Treat yourself gently and soon you'll be feeling better again.
Faith, Dear One.
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Originally Posted by venuscat
Love....you have been beating yourself up for way too long.....what would make me go on a bender is the fact that I am an alcoholic. Unless I keep my program up, I will relapse. Maybe not today or tomorrow...but I will. That is my truth.
I am here every day...I have commitments that mean everything to me, I read recovery material, meetings, subscribe to The Grapevine, have AA/NA daily reading books next to our bed....both of us....talk to friends in recovery on the phone....it goes on....I needed to make my recovery an every-day thing forever.
The why we drink...why I drink....has never been a mystery to me.
My wiring got messed up or I was born that way....I have no off switch and I have an obsession with alcohol. It's nuts. But it's treatable.
More love. ♥
I am here every day...I have commitments that mean everything to me, I read recovery material, meetings, subscribe to The Grapevine, have AA/NA daily reading books next to our bed....both of us....talk to friends in recovery on the phone....it goes on....I needed to make my recovery an every-day thing forever.
The why we drink...why I drink....has never been a mystery to me.
My wiring got messed up or I was born that way....I have no off switch and I have an obsession with alcohol. It's nuts. But it's treatable.
More love.
♥ Suze. Absolutely girl.
We have to change Everything.
ODAAT.
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