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Symptoms of Alcohol Withdrawal
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Withdrawals Can Be Mild, Moderate or SevereAlcohol withdrawal refers to a group of symptoms that may occur from suddenly stopping the use of alcohol after chronic or prolonged ingestion. Not everyone who stops drinking experiences withdrawal symptoms, but most people who have been drinking for...
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Wow, what do you think? Temp sponsor...
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So I got a temporary sponsor... I didn't actually ask her to be my sponsor, I had told her I needed to get to know women out here and that I hadn't found a sponsor here yet, and she said "I'll be your temporary sponsor!" so I said ok... So we talked a long time the other night... and sh...
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I'm so glad you're here
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Hi There;
I'm so glad you guys are here. I'm 9 1/2 yrs sober and have spent this last week dying for a drink--still sober though I live way in the boondocks and took a job this year teaching chemistry at the local High School (I still think it's funny that I'm certified to teach chemistry). Any...
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Codependant Relationships
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If any of this sounds like you... • Recognize your addiction, talk to a healthy friend or adviser and begin today to take back the control of your life and your well-being. • Realize that you are powerless over what the other person feels, thinks or does. You didn't cause it and you can't fix it....
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Been there...Done that..:)
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Codependency occurs when a capable adult relinquishes control of their life and their happiness to another person, believing incorrectly that their passivity is somehow going to give them what they want. Falling in love usually starts off with a wonderful cocktail of hormones and joy juices like...
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Recognizing Feelings
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Experiencing feelings can be a challenge if we've had no previous experience or permission to do that. Learning to identify what we're feeling is a challenge we can meet, but we will not become experts overnight. Nor do we have to deal with our feelings perfectly. Here are some ideas that mig...
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Strength
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We don't always have to be strong. Sometimes, our strength is expressed in being vulnerable. Sometimes, we need to fall apart to regroup and stay on track. We all have days when we cannot push any harder, cannot hold back self-doubt, cannot stop focusing on fear, cannot be strong. There are days w...
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Twenty-Four Hours A Day
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*********************************************************** February 23, 2007 A.A. Thought For The Day Besides our jobs, our families, our friends and our sobriety, we have something else which many of us found through A.A. That's faith in a Power greater than ourselves, to which we can...
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Business Meeting 2
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Hey All - thanks for your feedback on my business meeting post last week; I did show up for last nights business meeting. As it turns out, one of the individuals with the strong opinions last week didn't show up, the other seemed to have amnesia regarding her opinions of the previous week and sudd...
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Daily Reflections Feb 23
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MYSTERIOUS PARADOXES Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one's old life as a condition for finding a new one. A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 46 What glorious mysteries paradoxes are! They do not compute, yet when recognized and accep...
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Keep an open mind
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An older friend of mine always lived by the rule, "Let your conscience be your guide. Whenever he was faced by a tough decision, he said, "I stop thinking and I start feeling." For this wide old gentleman, wisdom came from listening not so much to his mind, but more to his heart. He a...
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New
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Hello, I joined this forum a few months back because I felt like I did not want to go to face to face AA. So I figured i'd turn to an online support group. I never posted and I kept drinking. I've been on a drinking binge for the last year or so. I cannot remember the last time i've gone a...
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Hello to everyone!
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Thought I would briefly introduce myself before jumping into threads. My name is DeVon, and I am an active member of AA. I hail from a small agricultural town, but we do have 3 meetings here a week. I have a hard-nosed sponsor which is exactly what I need, I also sponsor others, and am glad I hung in there lo...
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Twenty-Four Hours A Day
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*********************************************************** February 21, 2007 A.A. Thought For The Day I go to the A.A. meetings because it helps me in my business of keeping sober. And I try to help other alcoholics when I can, because that's my part of my business of keeping sober. I also h...
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Twenty-Four Hours A Day
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February 22, 2007 A.A. Thought For The Day Now we can take an inventory of the good things that have come to us through A.A. To begin with, we're sober today. That's the biggest asset on any alcoholic's books. Sobriety to us is like good-will in business. Everything else depends on that. M...
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Daily Reflections Feb 22
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GUIDANCE ... this means a belief in a Creator who is all power, justice, and love; a God who intends for me a purpose, a meaning, and a destiny to grow, however... haltingly, toward His own likeness and image. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 51 As I began to understand my own powerlessness and my dependence on God, as I...
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Facing and Solving Problems
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I ask that You might help me work through all my problems, to Your Glory and Honor. - Alcoholics Anonymous Many of us lived in situations where it wasn't okay to identify, have, or talk about problems. Denial became a way of life -- our way of dealing with problems In recovery, many of us still fear pr...
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Mental Obsession
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From the moment I started drinking, I loved it, and I loved it so much I planned and plotted so that I would not become an alcoholic like my father. I thought I knew about alcoholism - an alcoholic was someone who craved alcohol and went into withdrawal without it. I didn't want to be come one of thos...
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Had a rough day
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Hey guys, I had a rough day--actually, it really wasn't all that bad, just full of stuff and as the day started ebbing towards a close I felt very irritable, depressed and tense. I said to myself in the car as I started the long drive home "When I get home, if one of my friends has a bottle of wine op...
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Daily Reflections Feb 21
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I'M PART OF THE WHOLE At once, I became a part--if only a tiny part--of a cosmos.... AS BILL SEES IT, p. 225 When I first came to A.A., I decided that "they" were very nice people--perhaps a little naive, a little too friendly, but basically decent, earnest people (with whom I had nothing...
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Living In The Present
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The present moment is all we have. Yes, we have plans and goals, a vision for tomorrow. But now is the only time we possess. And it is enough. We can clear our mind of the residue of yesterday. We can clear our mind of fears of tomorrow. We can be present, now. We can make ourselves available to this moment, t...
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People Pleasing
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We are powerless over other people's expectations of us. We cannot control what others want, what they expect, or what they want us to do and be. We can control how we respond to other people's expectations. During the course of any day, people may make demands on our time, talents, energy, mo...
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Daily Reflections Feb 20
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THE GIFT OF LAUGHTER At this juncture, his A.A. sponsor usually laughs. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 26 Before my recovery from alcoholism began, laughter was one of the most painful sounds I knew. I never laughed and I felt that anyone else's laughter was directed at me! My self-pity a...
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Big thank you to anonymous
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I posted on here a while back asking if anyone had any recovery tapes/CDs they could send me. I got a whole bunch and my A actually listened to one already with me. You are helping two at the same time. Also, someone sent me a little variety of books and stuff, maybe this was from Al-anon, but I have to put ou...
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Twenty-Four Hours A Day
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*********************************************************** February 20, 2007 A.A. Thought For The Day Liquor used to be my friend. I used to have a lot of fun drinking. Practically all the fun I had was connected with drinking. But the time came when liquor became my enemy. I don't know jus...
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Another Article That I can Identify with..from the Outside In
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Add alcohol to this one...and its disasterous PTSD and RELATIONSHIPS A National Center Fact Sheet Trauma survivors with PTSD often experience problems in their intimate and family relationships or close friendships. PTSD involves symptoms that interfere with trust, emotional closeness, com...
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Daily Reflections Feb 19
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I'M NOT DIFFERENT In the beginning, it was four whole years before A.A. brought permanent sobriety to even one alcoholic woman. Like the "high bottoms, " the women said they were different; . . . The Skid-Rower said he was different . . . so did the artists and the professional people, t...
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Daily Reflections Feb 18
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OUR PATHS ARE OUR OWN ... there was nothing left for us but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 25 My first attempt at the Steps was one of obligation and necessity, which resulted in a deep feeling of discouragement in the face of all those adverbs: cour...
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Daily Reflections Feb 17
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THE LOVE IN THEIR EYES Some of us won't believe in God, others can't, and still others who do not believe that God exists have no faith whatever He will perform this miracle. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 25 It was the changes I saw in the new people who came into the Fellowship that help...
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Twenty-Four Hours A Day
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*********************************************************** A.A. Thought For The Day Many things we do in A.A. are in preparation for that crucial moment when, walking down the street on a nice sunshiny day, we see a nice cool cocktail lounge and the idea of having a drink pops into our minds. If...
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Daily Reflections Feb 13
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WE CAN'T THINK OUR WAY SOBER To the intellectually self-sufficient man or woman, many A.A.'s can say, "Yes, we were like you--far too smart for our own good.... Secretly, we felt we could float above the rest of the folks on our brain power alone." AS BILL SEES IT, p. 60 Even the most...
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This is funny!!!!
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Um the last couple of days were alright, but my computer screwed up and had to take it in to get it looked at. and ya know funny thing was, I tried signing in to this forum and damn I forgot my stupid pass word, Uh duh. I'm doing well, daughter has still got a sore angkle, a little embarrassed to go to schoo...
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Prayers please ?
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Well, all, it's been a LONG week.....My ex husband had one of his hips replaced on Wed., the surgery went very well, but he's looking at a long recovery just to go back in and have the other hip done......My b/f left Thursday night for his mother's, 150mi away, she was diagnosed with ova...
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Recovery Is About Today
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The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it. -- Aeschylus The Fellowship keeps us grounded in the current moment. We learn to live today. Our planning and scheming and dreaming about tomorrow becomes less time consuming. The idea of living one day at a time makes sense to us. Our P...
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Headaches--Withdrawal Symptoms?
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Hi, I was wondering, are severe headaches a common withdrawal symptom? I've gone eight days without alcohol and I started getting headaches around the same time--I didn't make the connection until last night. I usually don't get headaches and I'm very conscious about eating rig...
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24 Hours A Day
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February 18, 2007 *********************************************************** Twenty-Four Hours A Day A.A. Thought For The Day After I became an alcoholic, alcohol poisoned my love for my family and friends, it poisoned my ambition, it poisoned my self-respect. It poisoned my whole life, u...
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You Don't Crave It Anymore?
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Hi everyone, I've a question for those of you who've written that you don't crave alcohol anymore: What does that mean? I'm sorry if this sounds like an ignorant question and I certainly don't mean it to sound rude, but I'm curious. I thought part of what makes a alcoholic pe...
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Daily Reflections Feb 16
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COMMITMENT Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 125 There came a time in my program of recovery when the third stanza of the Serenity Prayer -- "The wisdom to know the difference" -- be...
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Daily Reflections Feb 15
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TAKING ACTION Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us--sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84 One of the most important things A.A. has given me, in addition to freedom from booze,...
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Daily Reflections Feb 14
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Happy Valentine's Day! EXPECTATIONS vs. DEMANDS Burn the idea into the consciousness of every man that he can get well regardless of anyone. The only condition is that he trust in God and clean house. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 98 Dealing with expectations is a frequent topic at meetings. It isn...
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Hello
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Hi All, I want to stop drinking. I've never been to an AA meeting but this is my first attempt to get help. I have a great life if not for my habits - that I put before everything at times. I noticed there is a chat room on here. Do you guys meet in the chat room regularly or at a scheduled time? I like the anon...
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A question re: my Alcoholism
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So I was thinking the other day- my dad wasn't an alcoholic. My mom showed some really serious alcohol issues when I was a kid but doesn't really now, both grandpas died drunks. Anyhow- I think to me alcohol always was about a party- festivity. I remember going to company dinners and being disa...
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Daily Reflections Feb 12
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"THE ROOT OF OUR TROUBLES" Selfishness--self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of all our troubles. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 62 How amazing the revelation that the world, and everyone in it, can get along just fine with or without me. What a relief to know that people, places and...
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Daily Reflections Feb 11
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THE LIMITS OF SELF-RELIANCE We asked ourselves why we had them [fears]. Wasn't it because self-reliance failed us? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.68 All of my character defects separate me from God's will. When I ignore my association with Him I face the world and my alcoholism alone and must dep...
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Right and Wrong
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Recovery is not about being right; it's about allowing ourselves to be who we are and accepting others as they are. That concept can be difficult for many of us if we have lived in systems that functioned on the "right/wrong" justice scale. The person who was right was okay; the person w...
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Daily Reflections Feb 9
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GETTING THE "SPIRITUAL ANGLE" How often do we sit in AA meetings and hear the speaker declare, "But I haven't yet got the spiritual angle." Prior to this statement, he had described a miracle of transformation which had occurred in him -- not only his release from alcohol,...
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Believing In Change
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Believing in change At first, drugs or booze turned us on; later they turned on us. We couldn't find any peace anywhere. We began turning into the kind of person we didn't want to be, but we didn't know what was happening to us or how to change. When we came to believe that our lives could and w...
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Daily Reflections Feb 8
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CONVINCING "MR. HYDE" Even then, as we hew away, peace and joy will still elude us. That's the place so many of us A.A. oldsters have come to. And it's a hell of a spot, literally. How shall our unconscious--from which so many of our fears, compulsions and phony aspirations still st...
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priorities
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So I kinda had a wake up call today... I haven't had my priorities straight at all since I moved, I'm being horribly selfish with my boyfriend, not accepting his feelings on our relationship... how he feels it's wrong because I'm still in my first year... he does want me here, he do...
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On Sadness
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"Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the ‘healing feeling.’&quo...
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