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The hell do I do with this one?
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Just called a previous sponsee for a chew of the fat. He tells me he's a/ drinking, b/ threatened his partner and c/ intends to travel to another city and is 'tooled up'. (i.e. has weapons and is prepared to use them) I do not believe him on point c. it's possible, but I think it's drunken ranting - apparant...
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Understanding the sickness.
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Ive been clean for almost a year now and Im happy that im not even around old friends and certain people. Im not even gonna say what it all is. But alcoholics are not only sick. Theres some gross people out there... -- Edited by Closer on Thursday 27th of September 2012 02:40:49 AM
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Aliasisme - 3 weeks!
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Congrats to you. I can already see your transformation happening - you get to be who you were always meant to be now... never give up!
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justadrunk
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60 days!!!!
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I have 60 days today! I had the crazyiest day ever and I did not want a drink. Angry parent, sobbing teenager, cut my finger REALY bad, broke up a cat fight, student barking in class and a not so perfect rehearsal and I didn't want a drink. 60 days sober feels really good
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More fun while drinking concept....
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Ok, so I know I have thought this before and I know many of you have thought this......the 'how am I going to have fun without alcohol' or the 'will I be fun without it'. Alcohol for many gives that feeling of relaxation in a social setting, giving them more extrovertedness. I have been wondering how it wo...
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aliasisme
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A survey for Alcoholics on Recovery and the Built Environment
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Hello, My name is Jessica and I am currently doing research on the impact of the built environment on the recovery process. Please take a moment to click the link below and take my survey. All information provided is completely confidential. Your time and information is greatly appreciated. All res...
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Survey on Rehabilitation..... Please Take! Completely Anonymous
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Hello, My name is Jessica and I am currently doing research on the impact of the built environment on the recovery process. Please take a moment to click the link below and take my survey. All information provided is completely confidential. Your time and information is greatly appreciated. All res...
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J_Earp
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Friday night...sober...and scared
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I'm worried about tomorrow night (Friday). Friday begins my binges. Originally I typied "usually begins my binges," but that is not true. It always does. After a full (if I didn't call in hung-over) week of work, I deserve a beer, right? I am going to a ball game (Cards). I've neve...
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sorrowfloats
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Daily Reflections ~ Love Without Strings & 24hrs a Day
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Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 89 Sponsorship held two surprises for me. First, that my sponsees cared about me. What I had thought was gratitude was more like love. They wante...
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Personification of Alcohol
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This might be a weird question/topic, but I am wondering if anyone else has ever "personafied" alcohol in their lives. And by that, I mean that if "alcohol" were a character in the play of your life, what would it look like, sound like, act like, etc.? I ask because I feel like the p...
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Today's Gift 9-27
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. -- Thomas Carlyle "Five years down the road," says Jack, "I want to have a new job, an intimate relationship, and a bigger house. I want to be earning more money and feel better about myself....
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Oxycodone and I
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To keep you updated, On Saturday, I busted my ankle. It required surgery, so I was given percoset/oxycodone. Sunday night I really needed the oxycodone. All day Monday and Tuesday I really needed it. Last night (Tuesday night) I really felt ibuprophen could take over, and I was right. Pain level...
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Daily Reflections ~ Without Reservation & 24hrs a Day
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When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, . . . AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37 While practicing service to others, if my successes give rise to grandiosity, I must reflect on what brought me to this point. What has been given joyfully, with love, must be passed on with...
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Another Reason We Stay Sober
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During my morning meditation, it came to me that this hasn't been posted in a long time ... I love this statement below and have re-read it often in my early sobriety ... to me? ... it defines our very purpose here on earth ... it gives me a sense of duty and a goal to ever keep alive in my mind ... it inspires m...
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Pythonpappy
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All the other ways to fill the hole
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I've noticed lately that around this time of the month - right on my month marker (yesterday was 6 months sober for me) - that I get VEEERRRRRy cranky. My blood is boiling because I blinked, my husband is annoying because he has less gray hairs, my kids are too loud - too quiet - too cute. It helps me to thin...
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Feelin the pressure
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As of late, I've had a pretty odd schedule. Three days in a row I'm up at 6 at work by seven, end work at three and start class at 4, out of class at 9, home by 930, study til 12. The other two days I work 7-3 home by 330 and do housework. And the weekends are for homework, errands and social time.
3 days a week I co...
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Daily Reflections ~ Our Children & 24hrs a Day
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The alcoholic may find it hard to re-establish friendly relations with his children. . . . In time they will see that he is a new man and in their own way they will let him know it. . . . From that point on, progress will be rapid. Marvelous results often follow such a reunion. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 134 ...
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Checking In
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Hey all, I just wanted to check in and say that last night's 2-year anniversary dinner with my wife went very well. We split a craft ginger ale over our meal, which I appreciated not only because of the taste, but also because it didn't leave me totally piss drunk and stumbling over myself at the end of the...
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AdamMoz
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Beer Logic on Important Issues - Deep Reflection
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Mowed the lawn today, and after doing so I sat down and had a soco manhattan.The day was really quite beautiful, and the drink facilitated somedeep thinking on various topics.Finally I thought about an age old question: Is giving birth morepainful than getting kicked in the nuts?Women always maint...
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Today's Gift 9-26
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The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed.--ChamfortWhen we are adrift in our addiction, we take ourselves very seriously and often lose contact with reality. We become lost in fantasy and obsession. Life becomes joyless because we can't see beyond our addiction, and we find no real sa...
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Ouch!
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So, I was just minding my own business, not bothering anyone, when this boulder climbing wall comes along and.....you know..... starts making me climb it. Yada Yada Yada, two plates and 11 screws late...
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Blissful Promises
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I apologize for continuing to harp on this, but for the past two days I have been thinking a lot about the reality of alcohol making blissful promises it fails to deliver. As if that were not insideous enough, it not only fails to deliver but uses our trust and weakness to destroy us. And neither intellig...
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RIP Mia... :*( to the greatest cat ever.
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I got Mia when she was 6 weeks old. She was a stray outside of my old partners work. She was just wondering around out there purring and looking for love. She was adorable from the start and very athletic. She would do endless head over heals back flips when playing. She always had some health issues...
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At this point...not sure what I am?!
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First and foremost..thanks for even reading this. I apologize that this isn't in the right folder/board area. I just need support, ideas, compassion and some kind of empathy. Background: I am engaged to my boyfriend of going on 7 yrs. He has addiction issues of his own I believe are pills. The only ma...
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Congrats Danielle!
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StPeteDean
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On a happeir note.....
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My sponsor turned 24 last weekend. so i mae him a cake. we celebrated his sober birthday on retreat at a monastery - a great time and a great place. From friday afternoon to Sunday lunch we packed 5 meetings in. we took it in turns to chair the meeting, 4 of them were run Barnsley style. I chaired my sponsor a...
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Joining a church.
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I was wondering how someone joins a church. Im not a christian and I know virtually nothing about it, but Im wanting to join the church. How does someone go about this?
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AA in Siem Reap, Cambodia
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I am going to be there 10/5 - 10/13 and on the website it says the normal meetings are "on hiatus." Does anyone know of a meeting out there? thanks.
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"begging you to come join in..."
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Yesterday Pappy said... "You sound like a smart kid ... most of us are ... but alcohol turns us into something different ... if you're as smart as I think you are, then you'll seek help now while you have time to aviod the disasters we've been through ... there is a Hell in front of you that's begging y...
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Today's Gift 9-25
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We are Only HumanWe can admit our limitations and defects.When we admit the truth about our limitations and defects, we create fertile ground for new growth and change. But if we wallow in hopeless belief that our defects are just our true nature, we grow committed to them. That is the difference betw...
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Ashamed
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First time here. I've known that I am an alcoholic for years. After not remembering what I did last night, my car parked half-way in the yard, and calling in sick, although I had to check my cell to make sure I actually DID call in, I am ready to stop. I am so ashamed of myself. I can't believe I let it get th...
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need aa support
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Hi i am new to the online aa program. I need this program as I can not get out to meetings. i'd like to hear from you concerning positive sites and how to use aa on line. thanks msrose
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I wrote this a few months ago...
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The worst part about alcoholism, for me, is the crushing loneliness. I have always felt loneliest at 4am after an evening of binge drinking. You've been there, right? When you wake up with your head in flames, unable to remember the end of the night, wondering if you said or did something really stupid...
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AdamMoz
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A new freedom.
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As we try to process the possibilities with God, we have to look outside the human dimensions that we are familiar with. Nonetheless those faculties are the very instruments we have, to condition and to bring under discipline to function under spiritual laws. As we try to live in the 4th dimension, we...
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Welcome to TheSoundOfDrums
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Welcome SOD, ... you wrote: thought i'd try this out....i'm a younger person who likes to drink (emphasis on likes)...i'm not someone who gets aggressive, violent, or any malevolent repercussions, maybe just acts stupid at the most part... I consider myself an alcoholic...i don't harm anyone and...
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which meeting typess
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So can someone give me a breakdown of these types of meeting and why I could expect to walk in to, there's three in my area that fit my schd, OD open discussion, CD closed discussion, and C closed.
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Problem with Isolating
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September 24, 2012 Quote of the Week "The problem with isolating is thatyou get such bad advice." By the end of my drinking and using, I was all alone. Unlike some of the stories I hear about people drinking in bars, I preferred to drink alone in my home, and after months of listening...
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Just Saying Hello
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Hi everyone, My name is Adam and I was posting here a lot a while back. I am committing to doing so again because it was/is very good for me in my recovery. I don't have a whole lot to say at the moment except that I continue to be amazed by the community of support on this board - and also the recurring tragic s...
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AdamMoz
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Someone Who Cares
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This will touch everyone's heart ... especially if you're a nurse or a caregiver ... please watch this two minute clip ... 'Someone Who Cares' -- Edited by Pythonpappy on Monday 24th of September 2012 07:30:35 AM
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Have a good day
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Wishing everyone a good day......what ever time it is in your part of the world. Glad I found this site & will be a regular here,I'm big on encouraging others. Das28
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too much change at once?
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Just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this: In the beginning is it better to focus on just one big change at a time? 3 weeks ago today I had my last drink. I am doing well and I wanted to try and get healthy in other aspects of my life, for example taking better care of myself ie eating healthier and star...
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CONSTRUIM IN EUROPA
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S.C. DIN ZONA BUCURESTI (ROMANIA) CONSTRUIM LA CHEIE IN TOATE TARILE EUROPEI:- case;- vile;- case din lemn / cabane;- cladiri pentru reprezentante de firme romanesti sau straine care decid sa fie prezente pe pietele europene occidentale (de ex. showroom-uri, showroom + locuinta reprezentant +...
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The "perfect" AA meeting
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I think that the title of this blog post is slightly satirical, and I absolutely loved it. It had me laughing. Wish that I'd read this early on in my time in AA -- those early times might (might!) have made a bit more sense to me. It also gives me comfort to know just how broad a Fellowship this is and how there...
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Today's Gift 9-24
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Now that I'm not acting crazy I can accept feeling crazy once in a while. --Sandy B. Saying no to ourselves may be a greater act of courage than rushing into a burning building to save a child. The act of heroic rescue may be impulsive, almost involuntary, and completed before there is time for a reasoned...
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new to this
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Im new to this its my first post.i will be honest im drinking well im typing.I need to stop drinking excessivly but i find it impossible i work 7 days a week and my only escape is booze i have freinds who are in AA but Im to pround to talk to them. last night I pissed myself in bed beside my wife and its not the fir...
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Alcoholism and homeless -- could never happen to me, right?
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http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2482&dat=19911229&id=oKFbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=y1ENAAAAIB...
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My sons 5th birthday party - yes I was drunk.
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My son will have his 6th birthday party tomorrow. I have a shot at being sober for it this year... God willing. That's not what I'm hear to tell you about tonight. When I was 5, I had the best birthday party ever. My whole extended relation, my friends, neighbors - it really seemed the whole town was the...
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Yet Another Reason to NOT Drink
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VERN'S FUNERAL Vern works hard at the Phone Company but spends two nights each week bowling, and plays golf every Saturday. His wife thinks he's pushing himself too hard, so for his birthday she takes him to a local Strip Club. The doorman at the club greets them and says, 'Hey, Vern! How ya doin?' ...
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And then I woke up.
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The nightmare began with me cleaning up the mess of destruction I caused from the night before. I didn't know if I had drank or not. There was puke in the bathroom - I was living in my old college dorms. Down the hall was a smashed car - never mind I lived on the 10th floor. I didn't know if I smashed it - it...
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why now?
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So even tho I do not post much I'm here everyday. I'm just 2 weeks shy of 5 months sober! And 10 months smoke free. Why have these past few days been the hardest?? As I read earlier my disease is doing some push ups. Is this my pink cloud, or is it the fact that I used to love drinking outdoors during this time of...
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