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He wont stop drinking & she wont let him go
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I am in a desperate situation & need urgent help. My partner & I live in my mums house and since she got with her bloke & married him last summer this household has been hell. He is a drinker & cause`s nothing but arguments every day/ night. The police have been called several times but...
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Can you please help me ? I'd really appreciate it!
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Hi there, I wonder if you could please help me?I am a member of AA and am currently conducting a study for my undergraduate dissertation on ' 'perspectives of time', anxiety & spirituality in 12-step addiction recovery ' and I'd really appreciate it, if you could help by completing my online surv...
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New Doctor's Orders
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I saw my "Carl Jung" this afternoon (you would never believe how much this Dr. reminds me of Jung!!), and he has prescribed a lifestyle change for me. I have been worrying about my level of stress and exhaustion lately, and was asked when I get up in the morning. "Oh, 5:30". When d...
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Back to everything
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Well, I just got back last night from being in Europe for 3 weeks. What a trip it was! I stayed at a youth center in Wales for 2 weeks doing some service work for the local forestry service (clearing footpaths, building small bridges). Of the 14 people I stayed with, I was the only one that spoke fluent Engl...
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Wonderful News Today
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I have been working so hard in a new role at work the past 6 months, it is hard to explain, but it has been soooo stressful, just the nature of it, and 99% of my time not being with my beloved patients anymore, being stuck at a desk and dealing with all kinds of issues, pathology, and medication changes, not...
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Simple Evening Gratitude.... for newbies and old timers...
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Welcome to my quiet living room here tonight. It is evening and time to get calm, relax, clear the mind. I am aware of my own peace tonight, and I want to share it with you. Pajamas on, sitting in the recliner, logging on to MIP in the quiet, dog lying on the floor next to me, and seeing what miracles you all ar...
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Sh*t, still have sensitive feelings..........................
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Witchy women talking about me at work, the boss getting on my butt and taking stuff out on me from out of nowhere. Really felt like telling them all to go to hell, and just driving away, leaving them hanging like fools, with mouths wide open. But hey, I guess I didn't get sober to act like that. I can at least...
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Death in your Family
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I find it amazing how GOD works in misterious ways. My granfather passed this a.m. and I prayed last night although I knew if it was his time to go he would. When I prayed last night I asked for him to visit in my dreams(which I new he would) but he passed at 5:30 a.m. I did not see him nor do I think I wanted to do...
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please pray for
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Please say a little prayer for a young woman that has been led astray. She is most likely using/ possible a few chemical dependancys. Her whereabouts are hard to pinpoint and she has little contact with her family. When she makes an attempt to get help they are thwarted. She has other problems and they s...
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AA ~ Altered Attitudes
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The 5 As of Adjustment ~ Awareness ~Until we admit awareness of a problem or a character defect, we cannot possibly let it go. Steps 4 & 5 apply here. Attitude ~This is the Willingness A. Do we justify our thoughts or actions? Do we want to keep doing what we are doing & get different result...
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New to Board
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Hello, I am new to the board. Just past one year actually today is 13 months. I had a long drinking career, but finally found the help that I needed to get sober. I am a member of a small but very good group that has great structure. Just looking for some more AA buddies. Best Wishes to All Dale G.
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Please help
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Need prayers, enough said. MDC
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I'm new here
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Hi everyone, My name is Barton and I'm an alcoholic and an addict. I had 10 years sobriety until I started taking pain medication. I'm off the Tramadol but now I have a nasty and horrible addiction to cough syrup. Generic Robittussin DM brand. Today I have hit rock bottom and I want to get back to my life a...
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God???
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I don't know exactly why I was brought here, but I want to thank everyone here. You all have seen what I've been going through and have been supportive. I came here looking for just one person to say, "I care, " I've gotten so much more that that. I was here ready and willing to die. Through...
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nightmares
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hello i am new to this website. i am early in recovery, 4 1/2 months. working a program, somewhat. Def hitting mtg's and making calls for sure, it works. been around before with my mouth shut and never picking up the phone. anyhow its too late to call anyone now. i just awoke from a nightmare that my m...
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Daily Reflections ~ One Day At A Time & 24Hrs
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Daily Reflections ONE DAY AT A TIME Above all, take it one day at a time. AS BILL SEES IT, p.11 Why do I kid myself that I must stay away from a drink for only one day, when I know perfectly well I must never drink again as long as I live? I am not kidding myself because one day at a time is probably the only way I can...
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This was sent to me...
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By an old friend from my teen years.... He's going on twenty years sober this year, I believe holding the distinction of being my childhood friend with the most years under his belt (A funny statistic unless you take into consideration that I know like three people from my childhood who are living and a...
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TLH
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when did i become such an angry person.
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today was day nine ...again like i have said before the hours of 5pm and on are really difficult for me for some reason. This morning i went to church stayed late to talk with friends and let my daughter play with the church children. We came home and enjoied each others company till my husband got off duty...
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Daily Reflections: 'We Forgive. . . .' & 24 Hrs a Day
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Daily Reflections WE FORGIVE. . . . Often it was while working on this Step with our sponsors or spiritual adviser that we first felt truly able to forgive others, no matter how deeply we felt they had wronged us. Our moral inventory had persuaded us that all-round forgiveness was desirable, but it was...
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Hmmmm......
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I was just thinking, I wonder what happened to nique?
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cramcj01
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16 months
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WOW....I knew I'd make it this far this time, however, I did not plan on so many people out there who care about me making it this far. I love my sobriety and have so much support. I thank GOD daily for whatever kind of day I have had, and they are mostly good one's. I just want to say thanks to all of you for lett...
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Trying
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I'm really trying this. With All that is going on, I'm just so confussed and tired. How does one deal with the emotional issues/suicidal thoughts associated with this disease. All the problems that pile up seems like it's more than I can take. I don't understand why I'm felling this way. If I was...
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Congrats on Jane's 500th post
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Jane wrote Thank You If this doesn't get deleted it will be my 500th postings here at MIP.And what a great place!!From what one of you told me, I will be what you call an old-timer (here) with this post.And nothing could be further from the truth.I did, in part, get to 500 postings by posting some really co...
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I felt like hitting this guy at a meeting.
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This isn't good- I have a few anger and resentment issues. I was at a meeting last Saturday and everything was fine- good share etc.. Then, at just 8:40, one of the duty members started tidying up and collecting cups when the chairperson had just started handing the meeting around the room. His reason b...
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is this okay to post this here
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My husband is an alcoholic and I am getting reallly tired of him going off when he is drinking over nothing. I am tired of being verbally abused. Is this a good place to post and look for help?
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up thinking.
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today is day number 8 that i have been sober. It is probably the longest ive been sober in about 4 years.
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A Simple Prescription
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-- Edited by Dave Harm on Sunday 17th of May 2009 11:43:52 AM
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Alcohol.....the Tip of the Iceburg
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Hi All,
Have heard that several times, and years later, finally understood the meaning. When we remove Alcohol from our lives with God's Help, it can be for some, it sure was for me, just a symptom of many other problems that were anethnised with Alcohol.
It seemed like the first maybe 6 or 7 years wa...
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Other ways to cope with stress
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I feel like posting this. I've recently felt a lot of stress as a soon-to-be college grad. I haven't been able to find a job yet and I am feeling like I am going to relapse. I know alcohol isn't the answer. I've tried that in the past and it hasn't worked. I figured I would start this thread and see what advice...
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Worse than before
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OK, so I'm back to trying to stay sober, going to meetings. Tomorrow is my last day at work, so I'm unemployeed after 15 years. It's official, wife wants out, she learned of some things that happened while I was drunk. Knownig that I hurt her hurts more than knowing she's gone. I know I have to stay so...
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My First Meeting
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Hi all, I have worried about my drinking for a long time now. I used to drink 3 to 4 glasses of wine on a Friday and Saturday night, more if I was out. Since I quit smoking five years ago, I started drinking almost nightly. I thought it helped with some anxiety I have always had. Now I drink wine every night, al...
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The Sober Roller Coaster Ride
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I have been on a mission to understand these first 3 steps. I came into AA thinking I could understand them and work through them immediately. I did not know that it was a process that would take 7 and a half months to get to just this point. At around 60 days I started to think of steps 1 through 3 as a rolle...
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relapse
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Hey, I'm back. I really thought that I was doing good. I had only had 1 beer in over 60 days. I made it through learning of my wife's affair, her illlness in the hospital, my own suicidal thoughts, and the death of my grandmother...without drinking. Then one day for no reason, I start back. It's like I...
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Daily Reflections ~ It's Okay To Be Me
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Time after time newcomers have tried to keep to themselves certain facts about their lives. . . . they have turned to easier methods. . . . But they had not learned enough humility. . . . ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 72-73 Humility sounds so much like humiliation, but it really is the ability to look at myse...
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My GAWD!
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So amazed and thrilled to see SOOOO MANY new members here every single day@!!!! So awesome that so many are seeking recovery and fellowship, and are finding MIP and our wonderful family along their search. Welcome to you all, each and every one!!! ((((((((HUGS)))))))) Joni
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jonijoni1
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Alcoholics coming through and making it happen!!!
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Hello everybody...My name is Nick and i recently had a post on here asking for speakers in my area to help me out on filling my positions needed to fill my schedule.. Well i got some good feed back on here but nobody in my area I did make like two calls early the next morn and told some other people about my pr...
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Recovering alky with severe culture shock!
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Hello all. I'm a recovering alcoholic, involved with AA where I live (Canada) hoping to sort some stuff out... maybe others can relate/ give feedback? I made a decision for abstinence 2 years, 5 months ago or so. I really feel this moment was predestined, or that my decision to stop drinking wasn't...
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Hi all
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Here I am.. still sober. .been 8..... very..... long.... days. I still have yet to go to a meeting but I do plan to. No excuses.. just trying to get the nerve up to go. I've sunken into a depression, feeling alone (even tho I know I am not) and feeling sorry for myself. I just need to light a fire under my ass a...
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NEW TO THIS
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Hey everybody..My name is Nick and I have recently been elected on to the service board at my group in Mesquite,Tx. I am the program chairperson and im new at this and I need a lil help... If there is anybody in the Dalls Ft. Worth area that is willing to come share your story please get back to me and let me k...
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After 60 days, back to 1
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I don't know who makes the rules of life, but he/she must be one sick bastard. I'm trying so hard to be positive, but WTF??? I'm really thankful for all of you that have helped, but DAMN!! I made it 60 days, wrote about it, got positive feed back and then this?? Where did it come from? what happened??...
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an odd celebration :-)
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I was taking the dog for a walk with a friend on Sunday....long story short, I fell, and gashed my knee pretty badly and was a bit shook up! Came home, and my neighbor, who is an MD, looked at it and said- "you need stitches!" and offered to take me to his office and fix me up (7 stitches worth, tur...
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Happy 70th Birthday to the AA "Big Book"
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My Mom just sent me this. She has 33 years of sobriety and is largely responsible for me finding my way into the rooms. Thanks Mom! May is the anniversary month of The Big Book A.A.'s 'Big Book' celebrates 70...
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alcoholism and naps
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Anyone else here try to get in as many naps as you can during the week or weekend? Is it an alkie thing? I am thinking maybe so.... so many fried emotional receptors, and a much lower threshold for stress, well, at least for me. When I first got sober, was like I had a paper bag over my head for 15 years, and th...
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jonijoni1
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Dale63
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Happy Belated Birthday! 365 days and 10,000 ass kickin' nights Woo Hoo! Welcome to MIP Hugs, Jen
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Dreading detox
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So I'm a binging alcoholic - I'll go for days, weeks, months without drinking, no problem, don't care - but as soon as I take one drink, I am pretty much not even on the planet for a few days. I'm currently on a drunk and am afraid to stop because, in the past, going off a drunk has been really, really shitty....
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I just did something I never ever thought I would do.
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Came across a mickey I didn't know I had in my room, got up, and poured it down the sink. That's all.
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paul86
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Gratitude
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Hi Everyone, Just wanted to let everyone know how grateful I am for the support over the last 6-7 years. I've come so far from the 'helpless' and 'scared' person back then. And I'm sure that there are still things that the future will bring that will challenge me, humble me, and bring me back to ear...
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Alcohol Cunning Baffling & Powerful
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I've been sober many years...over 35 ...Recently I crossed the Panama Canal, to the Pacific side, in my own boat... with a crew of one American, one Brit and 2 New Zealanders..I bought of course a case of beer...Which can only be drank when the pilot not aboard...Since the crew got off quickly on the o...
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Moms..... and anyone who has/has had one...
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Have a glorious Mother's day... and isn't THIS a beautiful celebration??? :o)
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jonijoni1
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Discouraged
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Hi All, Tomorrow will be 4 months sober for me. I don't understand why I'm having such a hard time. I have a sponsor and am working the steps, get to as many meetings as I can (I have an illness that keeps me in bed way too much), when I can't get to meetings I have a wonderful group of women that brings them to me...
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