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I'm glad to see you are feeling abit better. If you find it continues that you don't feel much better and continue to have trouble you might want to ask yourself if you might be slipping into a depressive phase. Terri sawchuck!!! You just dated yourself my friend. Terri was my uncle's cousin and boy could he play even though he wore a mask which was almost unheard of back then.
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subl???
i don't know what you read because itsure didn't lead to your reaction. maybe you should be sober and drug free before your read so as to minimize the halucinations
i don't know what you read because itsure didn't lead to your reaction. maybe you should be sober and drug free before your read so as to minimize the halucinations
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congrats on the 6 months
No big dicisions in the first year.
Try reading chapter 16.
Living and enjoying life without the use of drugs or alcohol.
Doing and inventory helped me a lot.
Yes, I'm capable of being a selfish ***** and created wreackage.
But i'm also capable of loving, forgiving. learning, growing and changing.
I also made a list of my interests and hobbies.
or even a childhood dream
I accomplish some of the things on the list.
I have more to do. The more reasons to stay clean and sober.
Truning off the box helps.
Getting out of my comfort zone was a challenge.
I allowed myself to presue some of my dreams and interest.
I took the necessary actions require to obtain my goals.
Working the steps help a lot. I applied the priciple of the lessons
I learned from the steps.
Things didn't happened overnite, but some of it did come true.
Recovery is a journey. It's a hell of a ride. Hang on to your arss.
When I'm down , it hurts like hell. When miracles happens, it still
trips me out. Borded I had never been in recovery, trust me on this.
No big dicisions in the first year.
Try reading chapter 16.
Living and enjoying life without the use of drugs or alcohol.
Doing and inventory helped me a lot.
Yes, I'm capable of being a selfish ***** and created wreackage.
But i'm also capable of loving, forgiving. learning, growing and changing.
I also made a list of my interests and hobbies.
or even a childhood dream
I accomplish some of the things on the list.
I have more to do. The more reasons to stay clean and sober.
Truning off the box helps.
Getting out of my comfort zone was a challenge.
I allowed myself to presue some of my dreams and interest.
I took the necessary actions require to obtain my goals.
Working the steps help a lot. I applied the priciple of the lessons
I learned from the steps.
Things didn't happened overnite, but some of it did come true.
Recovery is a journey. It's a hell of a ride. Hang on to your arss.
When I'm down , it hurts like hell. When miracles happens, it still
trips me out. Borded I had never been in recovery, trust me on this.
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Location: Northern CA
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You can't end a thread. Sometimes they take on a life of their own. The admin's might lock it, I suppose, if you ask very nicely, but don't count on it!
One of the first things folks do in SMART Recovery is make a list of the costs of drinking, and of the benefits of drinking (so they can figure out other ways to achieve those). Then we make a list of the benefits of stopping.
We keep those lists handy and update them periodically. It can be very useful to go back and look at your list of costs--basically, reasons you had then for quitting. The immediacy of those reasons diminishes as time passes, but they are still there. It is helpful to remind yourself of them from time to time.
After a while you can start to list the benefits of long term sobriety. It's useful to mark those milestones like your six months, to reflect on where you were then and how things have changed. Not everything changes for the better, not right away, but dealing with the changes and the emotions surrounding them is a lot easier when you're not getting drunk, being drunk, being hungover, or planning for drinking.
If you were drinking to reduce stress or anxiety, or because of depression, those factors are still present when you quit. They may even seem more intense, because you aren't numbing your brain on a daily basis. So dealing with them is going to be important to longterm sobriety.
Sobriety doesn't bring happiness--that is something that you experience in many ways, but I believe happiness to be a planned condition, or sometimes a matter of stepping back and acknowledging the things that bring you pleasure. Sobriety does make happiness easier to attain and recognize.
Take care,
Don S
One of the first things folks do in SMART Recovery is make a list of the costs of drinking, and of the benefits of drinking (so they can figure out other ways to achieve those). Then we make a list of the benefits of stopping.
We keep those lists handy and update them periodically. It can be very useful to go back and look at your list of costs--basically, reasons you had then for quitting. The immediacy of those reasons diminishes as time passes, but they are still there. It is helpful to remind yourself of them from time to time.
After a while you can start to list the benefits of long term sobriety. It's useful to mark those milestones like your six months, to reflect on where you were then and how things have changed. Not everything changes for the better, not right away, but dealing with the changes and the emotions surrounding them is a lot easier when you're not getting drunk, being drunk, being hungover, or planning for drinking.
If you were drinking to reduce stress or anxiety, or because of depression, those factors are still present when you quit. They may even seem more intense, because you aren't numbing your brain on a daily basis. So dealing with them is going to be important to longterm sobriety.
Sobriety doesn't bring happiness--that is something that you experience in many ways, but I believe happiness to be a planned condition, or sometimes a matter of stepping back and acknowledging the things that bring you pleasure. Sobriety does make happiness easier to attain and recognize.
Take care,
Don S
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Thanks. I think i'm struggling with the last paragraph. I'm having trouble filling the void left by not drinking so I get bored, frustrated, and anxious. But everyone here has helped me a lot this week. Leaving town for the rest of the week so I'll check back saturday.
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