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Dealing with Depression
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Dealing With Depression?
Everyone gets blue now and then in response to life's disappointments, but when feelings such as sadness, loneliness, exhaustion, hopelessness, and irritability persist and prevent a person from functioning normally, they m...
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Hello ALL
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OMG!!! The motel down the road was doing some digging andn the phone line got cut. Soo, on Monday I'm trying to figure out why my phone won't work and of course I can't get online w/o my phone. So I am now ,2 days later, getting to play catch up on reading all the posts.
Oh yeah, and duuuh, the phone line was f...
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First e-share
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Hi all
I've just joined, I feel I need to share something with you all.
Well I must say looking back now I am pretty bemused by my life and how it has turned out. I 'celebrated' my 1st birthday last month which is wonderful and I have changed completely how I look and feel. Yet I look at the aspects of...
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A H.A.L.T. Kind of Day
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I have to admit I am hungry, angry, lonely, and tired. So nice weather out and too many spring projects to complete! Overwhelmed, overwhelming.  So, I pulled out my notes. 
SOMETIMES 12 STEPS ARE TOO MANY...
SHORTEN THEM...
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Phil (and all)
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Der...I posted to you on the Alanon board. 
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How important is it?
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How important is it? --Anonymous
The young man in the meeting was very angry and upset. His lawn mover had broken down. He was having a cookout in his back yard that evening, the yard looked terrible, and he'd paid a lot of money for that mower! After he went on for some time, an older woman gently in...
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Dissapointed
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HI all
I had a bad day yesterday. well I started out bad by 'asking' my husband what I should do with the kids. I was actually trying to put him on a guilt trip for not being able to spend it with us or for not asking what I would be doing with the kdis so I said something awful I said it seems to me t...
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hmmmm
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Lots of triggers today....my work has a dang bottle of Kahlua on the pantry shelf,,,i actually had visions of tilting it all the way back!!!! Holy crap...no one at work knows of my addictions....i'll only have been there for three months on the 16th of this month and don't feel comfortable sharing whe...
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Another Great Way To Handle Anger :)
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>>When you occasionally have a really bad day, and you just need to
>>take it
>>out on someone, don't take it out on someone you know --take it out
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>>someone you don't know.
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>>I was sitting at my desk when I remembered a phone call I ha...
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Announcements
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ProudFather
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I just read your post to How and I want to say congrats on 2 days, one day at a time. Good for you.I'm glad you checked in, been wondering about you.
(((Hugs)))
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All comes down to choice...
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Just wanted to let you in on some happenings in my life at THIS moment in time.... I've really been trying to get back to the basics of my tools. In treatment i was taught to do regular spot checks throughout the day....what am i thinking,...what am i feeling. Getting into the swing of life on lifes terms,...
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Dealing With Anger
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Effectively Coping with Anger
By: Grant Kono, LCSW Anger is generally the most self destructive emotion that you feel. This is because it’s an emotion focused on action. If you are not acting on the anger, then you are thinking about acting on the anger or hoping that someone else will act on the ange...
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Each Day
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Each Day a New Beginning.
. . . love is a great beautifier. --Louisa May Alcott
Meeting life head-on, with a smile, attracts to us people and situations. Our attitudes shape our world--which is not to deny that problems do occur. However, problems can be viewed as special opportunities for p...
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binge drinking
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I have had a great couple of weeks and am sooo grateful. Most of the stories I hear seem to be mainly about cravings and drinking almost every day. My drinking was different. I didn't crave alcohol and would not for awhile and then I would feel overwhelmed and helpless in what was going on in my life and wou...
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positive or negative?
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. --Pearl Bailey
Is our glass half full or half empty? We may see ourselves as positive people, but when we take the time to examine our thoughts...
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The 1939 Liberty Magazine Article
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The 1939 Liberty Magazine Article
Charles Towns, owner of Towns' Hospital where Bill Wilson had sobered up, tried to get publicity for A.A. and finally succeeded. He had known Morris Markey, a well-known feature writer, for years. Markey was intrigued by what Towns told him of A.A., and...
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Think and thank
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If we think -- truly think -- our lives will become manageable, and if we thank God who made this thinking possible for us, then our lives are almost sure to remain manageable. We can contain our entire philosophy in these two words THINK and THANK.
Think before you take...
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Relapse
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A Look at Relapse ==================
Although this is about a relapse into alcoholism, it applies to many other areas of life, from overeating to relationship and money problems. Read it carefully.
1. EXHAUSTION - Allowing yourself to become overly tire...
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not my day
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Did a nice post. Kit the keyboard GONE Maybe later. I GIVE UP !!
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sponsor question...
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I'm not really getting it. I asked this woman to be my sponsor, but she hasn't called me or anything..she seemed really supportive and interested in me at first,so i asked her to help me, but I haven't even heard from her. I gave her my phone number..it was last week...How does it work? Am i suppose...
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slower than death
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Is it my computer or is this site slower than death
Not able to do much on here today. The topics won't come up etc.
Just sloooow
Needed to keep going off line and back on.
Had time today to read and post. just not working out.
Have a great day all
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How do I stop drinking?
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Hi Everyone,
I need to stop drinking. I attended an AA meeting last week then just drank all week anyway. I don't understand the 12 steps, I don't understand how some people have mentors or whatever, because none of that has been discussed with me by anyone from AA.
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Thank You
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To all those that responded for my cry for help I thank you. Things are better today and I do not crave to drink the person that I was speaking of in my previous post has come back into my life and she says that she loves me and wants me to get better. She says that she is going to be here for better or for worse and...
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literature
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Morning guys and gals,
Well it is day 8 and I am feeling pretty strong.It is amazing what sobriety can give me in the way of slef confidence, peace and just feeling OK with myself. Some of the hating and self doubt has dissappeared.
I feel so much better about the fact that I am concsious of my ch...
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Reply to Gammy and everyone here
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Thanks everyone for your replys. The time my wife and I spend together is great quality time, and I look forward to being with her each month. And yes--God works, if we let Him.
The train Gammy? You know the hand car that one has to push the handles up and down, before it moves.? Yup. Thats my speed...
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alive and well
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hey gang,
I know you thought I might of fell off the planet .I just been busy working .I am going to face to face meetings , got a new sponsor worked the steps for the first time.It was tuff hard work but my sponsor said I grew leaps and bounds.
I love my home church and have got a strong relationship with G...
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Welcome to new members...
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Welcome to Nolongerblind and Crampo,
I am so glad you have joined us. You are in the right place, and as you can tell we love to share our experience, strength and hope. Please post often, if you need to vent or just share, someone is always here to listen.
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Hello!~ New member
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HI everyone. I live in Vancouver, and I just found this site. I am in the early days of my sobriety,but I am really loving what AA has to offer, it is helping me through some tough times. I am glad to have found a 24 hour place like this to chat and vent, for times when meetings are not available. Thanks for hav...
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Thanku All
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This board has been a big part of my life as it is to all of us here. I thanku all for being here for me, as I am for you.
I had another great week with my wife. Its nice to know where the future is going. There were times, that I never did, and almost gave up hope, in a lot of areas. It feels good to have goals. It fe...
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Have a good Sunday
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Releasing the Past
Today I have the willingness to release myself from the past and give myself the gift of comprehending all that exists in my present.
I am tired of being mired in the past, running my every experience through the old damaged notions that seemed to have gotten stamped on every cel...
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I need help!!
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Please help me someone. I am a 22 year old male that has never thought that I had a problem with alcohol until last night. I am looking for a meeting in the the san bernardino california area. If anyone has information on a meeting place and time or a contact number of someone that could possibly help me ple...
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Letting Go
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Letting Go To let go doesn’t mean to stop caring; it means I can’t do it for someone else. To let go is not to cut myself off; it is the realization that I can’t control another. To let go is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences. To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means the ou...
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Spirituality
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Spirituality
When I am at peace with myself and my Higher Power, there's no greater force. No person, place, or situation has power over me. I will ask my Higher Power to grant me the strength I will need to be the best I can be today. I will take in my Higher Power until my whole being is filled with the s...
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Give Thanks
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"Though I still find it difficult to accept today's pain and anxiety with any great degree of serenity -- as those more advanced in the spiritual life seem able to do -- I can give thanks for present pain nevertheless.
"I find the willingness to do this by contemplating the lessons learned from pas...
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Humilty
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Dr. Bob defining humility:
On his desk, Dr. Bob had a plaque defining humility:
"Perpetual quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble.
It is never to be fretted or vexed, irritable or sore;
to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing
done against me. It is to be at rest when nobo...
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Choice
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"Yet we finally did make choices that brought about our recovery. We came to believe that alone we were powerless over alcohol. This was surely a choice, and a most difficult one. We came to believe that a Higher Power could restore us to sanity when we became willing to practice AAs twelve steps. In sho...
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god chose us
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Why We Were Chosen
God in HIS wisdom has selected this group of men and women to be the purveyors of His Goodness. In selecting them through whom to bring about this phenomenon, He went not to the proud, the mighty, the famous or the brilliant. He went to the humble, to t...
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let go let god
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Hey, thanks for your shares while Phil is away--appreciate the effort. you posted some real good stuff. Wish I could have added to them but this isn't my week, one of thoes times that I needed to step back and get direction.
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Misery
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I have been sober 3 days now. I am upset about the fact that I am not happy all the time. I mean I am miserable a lot of the time, in spite of the fact that I feel physically better than when I was drinking and I am very glad that I have stopped . I want to be acstatic but I feel so low sometimes l...
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BB QUOTE
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"Many of us felt that we had plenty of character. There was a tremendous urge to cease forever. Yet we found it impossible. This is the baffling feature of alcoholism as we know it—this utter inability to leave it alone, no matter how great the necessity or the wish." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4...
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Goodmorning all...
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I wanted to check in this morning and see how all is going. I have been busy caring for my Mom and getting ready for a garage sale with a friend. I miss you all when I can't get on 4 or 5 times a day.
Good for you Miller, 32 days, one day at a time. That's how we all do it. It sound like you are living life on lifes te...
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Unconditional love
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I lost my new puppy 11 days ago and tried to figure out why.
One girl said she may have gave her life up to save my grandson.
Maybe she was sent to help me with my depression ( bad at the time) and her job was over.
I thought God only knows ( after calling him names and cursing him)
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Dear Alcohol,
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Dear Alcohol, First & foremost, let me tell you that I'm a huge fan of yours. As my friend, you always seem to be there when needed. The perfect post-work cocktail, a beer at the game, and you're even around in the holidays,
Hidden inside chocolates as you warm us when we're stuck in the midst of end...
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pushing forward
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Picked up a yellow chip yesterday... long thirty days.
I wont say all is great, or that my life is all fixed up, or even that Im happier now. Lots of things still really suck right now. I take some comfort in the fact that I now realize that even folks that arent alchoholics have problems. Im beginning, i...
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BB QUOTE
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"The less people tolerated us, the more we withdrew from society, from life itself. As we became subjects of King Alcohol, shivering denizens of his mad realm, the chilling vapor that is loneliness settled down. It thickened, ever becoming blacker. Some of us sought out sordid places, hoping to fin...
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instinct to live
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When men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unatrual act. Defying their instinctive desire for self-preservation, they seem bent upon self-destruction. They work against their own deepest instinct.
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the value of time
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To realize The value of a sister Ask someone Who doesn't have one.
To realize The value of ten years: Ask a newly Divorced couple.
To realize The value of four years: Ask a graduate.
To realize The value of one year:
Ask a student who Has failed a final exam.
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Prayer
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Praise God for who he is...just wanted to share this with my friends and family. Dear Lord, I thank you for this day. I thank You for my being able to see and to hear this morning. I'm blessed because You are a forgiving God and an understanding God. You have done so much for me and You keep on bl...
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