So emotional...is it normal?
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Mississippi
Posts: 7,910
You crack me up, Untox.......
I love bunnies under waterfalls
and toast, too......
Y'all wish me luck today - I have to take my daughter (last child) to look at a college today.
Maybe there's a way we can enjoy/celebrate these feelings? I'd like to.......
I love bunnies under waterfalls
and toast, too......
Y'all wish me luck today - I have to take my daughter (last child) to look at a college today.
Maybe there's a way we can enjoy/celebrate these feelings? I'd like to.......
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Pasadena, CA
Posts: 1,539
Is this normal?
Yes.
You took away your DOC and now can feel for the first time in a looong time.
Formal recovery teaches us how apply principles as a new way of life and build the new you.
I am in Pasadena and would be happy to share with you where you can go for help and assistance in your new journey.
Itz free
Yes.
You took away your DOC and now can feel for the first time in a looong time.
Formal recovery teaches us how apply principles as a new way of life and build the new you.
I am in Pasadena and would be happy to share with you where you can go for help and assistance in your new journey.
Itz free
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 1,237
I find I'm still emotional after one year!! It's from all those years of drinking our emotions away...numbing them...or them coming out at the wrong times in the wrong way... now our emotions are THERE...right at the surface....so don't be frightned...embrace your true feelings!!!
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Texas
Posts: 275
The first few weeks of my sobriety (last summer) I may as well of been a pre-teen girl I was so emotional...and I'm a 37 year old guy!!! I watched Planes Trains & Automobiles in the second week and at the end when John Candy tells Steve Martin his wife has been dead for 8 years I fell apart like you had just told me my dad died....balled my eyes out for 10 minutes. It's totally normal. Gets better with time. Hang in there!
Riding Barefoot
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 452
Hmmm. . . I would be concerned if a Pink video made me cry, too! RED FLAG! 
But on a more serious note, I am glad you posted your concerns and I am triple glad for all the responses saying that it is normal. I had the pink cloud thing going for a while, but it disappeared, and now I'm left with what I guess can only be called sober reality. My emotions have literally been changing minute to minute and I am incredibly indecisive. I will try to embrace it, let my brain heal, move on and keep coming to SR. I love this place. 
But on a more serious note, I am glad you posted your concerns and I am triple glad for all the responses saying that it is normal. I had the pink cloud thing going for a while, but it disappeared, and now I'm left with what I guess can only be called sober reality. My emotions have literally been changing minute to minute and I am incredibly indecisive. I will try to embrace it, let my brain heal, move on and keep coming to SR. I love this place. Abnormally normal
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Los Angeles, Ca.
Posts: 306
Originally Posted by coffeenut 
So true. I took a road trip w/the family in the first 6 weeks....they wanted to throw mom from the car. Hell, I wanted to throw mom from the car...and I'm mom!
It really does get better!
It really does get better!
I'm telling you...mental pictures!
I'm still on the emotional rollercoaster, but they're easier to deal w/ knowing why they're happening and that its pretty much expected.
I'm not dwelling on them as much and scaring myself into a mental ward..lol
DB...if it wasn't for the fact that it was the "F**kin Perfect" video...Ida seen a red flag myself!
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Pasadena, CA
Posts: 1,539
EMOTIONAL sobriety: It does not seem to be discussed enough. That really is our challenge.
How do I cope in the moment I am in, sober.
THAT is what the 12 steps gives me. A whole new set of principles to build my new life.
WHAT do you have to loose??
How do I cope in the moment I am in, sober.
THAT is what the 12 steps gives me. A whole new set of principles to build my new life.
WHAT do you have to loose??
Abnormally normal
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Los Angeles, Ca.
Posts: 306
Originally Posted by 1_day@_a_time
I am in Pasadena and would be happy to share with you where you can go for help and assistance in your new journey.
Itz free
Fabi..
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