What is recovery?
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What is recovery?
Recovery is having your dog poop, not once, not twice, but THREE times on your brand new deck that you just finished staining a few days ago ...
... and rather than going on some sort of anger binge ...
saying to yourself "Well, I guess it probably was a more comfortable place for him to poop. We'll just have to let him know that the grass is better."
What a difference a few life coping tools make (and no alcohol).
I just laughed to myself, so thought I would share.
... and rather than going on some sort of anger binge ...
saying to yourself "Well, I guess it probably was a more comfortable place for him to poop. We'll just have to let him know that the grass is better."
What a difference a few life coping tools make (and no alcohol).
I just laughed to myself, so thought I would share.
Thanks for sharing 
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Medication/Treatment
While many people are frustrated by the process of finding the right medications and the side effects of medications, most persons with a psychiatric disorder indicate that medications are critical to their success (Sullivan, 1997). For many, the goal is not to be medication-free, but to take the least amount necessary.
Likewise, mental health consumers often report that mental health professionals and treatment programs are valuable to their recovery. Especially when consumers feel they are engaged in a partnership with their treatment provider and are involved in their treatment planning.
While many people are frustrated by the process of finding the right medications and the side effects of medications, most persons with a psychiatric disorder indicate that medications are critical to their success (Sullivan, 1997). For many, the goal is not to be medication-free, but to take the least amount necessary.
Likewise, mental health consumers often report that mental health professionals and treatment programs are valuable to their recovery. Especially when consumers feel they are engaged in a partnership with their treatment provider and are involved in their treatment planning.
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For me recovery is the process that brings me into an state of being recovered. I define that as having a treatment program that address the symptoms of my addiction (recovery) until my symptoms are no longer interfering with my ability to live a wholesome and fulling drug free life (recovered). Then its a matter of maintaining my recovered state with a continuing maintenance plan.
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Recovery is the act of recovering.
the definition of recover according to Webster is:
1 : to get back : regain
2 a : to bring back to normal position or condition <stumbled, then recovered himself> b archaic : rescue
3 a : to make up for <recover increased costs through higher prices> b : to gain by legal process
4 archaic : reach
5 : to find or identify again <recover a comet>
6 a : to obtain from an ore, a waste product, or a by-product b : to save from loss and restore to usefulness : reclaim
intransitive verb
1 : to regain a normal position or condition (as of health) <recovering from a cold>
2 : to obtain a final legal judgment in one's favor
the definition of recover according to Webster is:
1 : to get back : regain
2 a : to bring back to normal position or condition <stumbled, then recovered himself> b archaic : rescue
3 a : to make up for <recover increased costs through higher prices> b : to gain by legal process
4 archaic : reach
5 : to find or identify again <recover a comet>
6 a : to obtain from an ore, a waste product, or a by-product b : to save from loss and restore to usefulness : reclaim
intransitive verb
1 : to regain a normal position or condition (as of health) <recovering from a cold>
2 : to obtain a final legal judgment in one's favor
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I think recovery for me will be a kind of rebirth if you will.
I started drinking in my late teens heavily and so I feel like I really haven't grown up yet. Any situation which required me to grow up and be responsible, I just couldn't cope with and drank my feelings away.
This is kind of scary to me as I will need to face all those situations without alcohol and grow up and be responsible rather than run away.....and hide.
It certainly will be interesting........
I started drinking in my late teens heavily and so I feel like I really haven't grown up yet. Any situation which required me to grow up and be responsible, I just couldn't cope with and drank my feelings away.
This is kind of scary to me as I will need to face all those situations without alcohol and grow up and be responsible rather than run away.....and hide.
It certainly will be interesting........
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There are many terms in this journey that I have found to be subjective; some of them would be.....: alcoholic; alcoholism; sober; sobriety; and those ever-popular recovery; recovering; and recovered.....
My feeling is I get to define those for me, and ONLY me; nobody gets to define those terms for me, and I don't get to define those term for anybody else...... (o:
For me 'sober' and 'clean' can be used interchangably, however, if I'm in an AA meeting I use terms such as 'alcoholic' and 'sober' and when in an NA meeting I use terms such as 'addict' and 'clean' .....
"...some people associate being sober with alcohol alone and being clean with drugs..."
I've found this to be the case because NA (the organization and its members) brought out the term 'clean' to mean free from all mind-altering substances and AA (the organization, not AAer's) has its 'Singleness of Purpose' and has defined the term 'sobriety' to mean 'freedom from alcohol' (note they only say freedom from alcohol, and not freedom from all mind-altering substances; if they did that then they would be NA).
I'm an 'alcoholic/addict' (a redundancy) who is 'clean and sober' (another redundancy)......
Think I'll make myself truly redundant and leave this forum, least for a while, that is........
(o:
NoelleR
My feeling is I get to define those for me, and ONLY me; nobody gets to define those terms for me, and I don't get to define those term for anybody else...... (o:
For me 'sober' and 'clean' can be used interchangably, however, if I'm in an AA meeting I use terms such as 'alcoholic' and 'sober' and when in an NA meeting I use terms such as 'addict' and 'clean' .....
"...some people associate being sober with alcohol alone and being clean with drugs..."
I've found this to be the case because NA (the organization and its members) brought out the term 'clean' to mean free from all mind-altering substances and AA (the organization, not AAer's) has its 'Singleness of Purpose' and has defined the term 'sobriety' to mean 'freedom from alcohol' (note they only say freedom from alcohol, and not freedom from all mind-altering substances; if they did that then they would be NA).
I'm an 'alcoholic/addict' (a redundancy) who is 'clean and sober' (another redundancy)......
Think I'll make myself truly redundant and leave this forum, least for a while, that is........
(o:
NoelleR
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i tried to write again yesterday after this post and it wouldnt let me...i didnt read all of the posts before me, like i should have,... i know its more than just abstaining, but im not sure, like how long does it take to feel better about yourself, because i feel like i will never fully be in "recovery" and its very depressing
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