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glenngds2006


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It has been a few days since I have posted or read any posts.  It also has been a few days since I have been able to get out of bed for more than 10 minutes at a time. A friend I spoke to day before yesterday said you sound terribly sick over the phone. Mentally I was sicker than I was sick physically. But I came through it all without a single excurssion into drinking or drugging. I am definitely going to talk to my psychiatrist about my recent spell of depression. My Higher Power has been with me through this latest spell of depression. I have been reading posts for about an hour now and have pretty much caught up with everything on MIP. I feel much better now after having read everyone's posts on the different topics of the last few days. I plan tomorrow to read everyone's posts again, just like I did today.

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Hi Glenn,

I'm sorry that you've had a tough time of things recently, but the great news is that you haven't had a drink or taken drugs. That is good news and all praise to you. Just hang in there and it will pass.

Please keep posting and letting us know how things are going for you, won't you?

Take care,

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Hi Glenn,

sorry you haven't been feeling so good. hang in there it gets better the longer you stay away from drinking. we all have had depression in varying degrees. not comparing. exercise is the number one treatment, if you can get 30 minutes of swift walking in a day, you'll feel alot better. avoid caffiene and sugar also. vitamins and a good diet are important. your brain needs proper fuel and to be challenged with activity. I've found that making a to do list each day and knocking off those items or most of them makes me feel good and gives my brain something to do. hope this is helpful.  Also check out these articles I posted on
Post acute withdraw syndrome.  We all get this to a degree for the first 6-18 months sober.  recognizing the symptoms can help to not feed into them.
http://aa.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=42735&p=3&topicID=15178283
http://aa.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=42735&p=3&topicID=15178342
http://aa.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=42735&p=3&topicID=15178368


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Hi Glenn, I agree about the activity. I know it is hard. I used to have a friend that would just drag me out and I would get pretty miserable but I would go. It helped the most. reading posts is an action to. the main thing is some sort of action and it is allright to puh yourself for a couple extra minutes. It might just be the push you need to get out over the hump.

Getting a homegroup can be an important help. It has at least the obligation to show up and if you assume even a little bit more than that the rewards are well worth dragging yourself there.

Bill Wilson fought real deep depression. He wrote about just walking and saying over and over that pain was the touchstone of spiritual progress. Reading about his fight with depression is what made me remember how much activity was useful to me in my deepest depression.

Often we get angry at ourselves for something we can't change. Instead of accepting that we are powerless over something, we cling to the notion that we could or should have been able to do something differently. I can get angry with myself for being powerless. it doesn't make sense and I know that it doesn't make sense so I won't talk about it cause it seems silly to me. In the mean time all that anger focusing on myself depresses me.

We slowly learn to deal with anger with ourselves and anger with others in a way that doesn't hurt them or us. Before we get that far though acceptance and powerlessness are a handful to grasp. You never know which step is going to have the answer to depression. Often it comes off in layers. We grasp a step and feel relief only to have depression return. THis isn't the end of the world at all. We might find the next step has the solution or it might even be the next so we keep plodding along and unpeel that onion. Once one step works its easier to believe that the next one might work as well. Until you have a couple successes you'll have to go on faith that I have no reason to lie to you. :)

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Been up almost all day today. I live just about a mile or so away from the Highland AA Club in Shreveport. Anyway I think I will call that my home base and there is many a meeting there to call a home group and almost any one of them will do as a home group.

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Hi Glenn
Glad your feeling better!!!! Baby steps is what I was always told!!!! Save your energy for the important things in life!!!
Lani

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glenngds2006 wrote:

Been up almost all day today. I live just about a mile or so away from the Highland AA Club in Shreveport. Anyway I think I will call that my home base and there is many a meeting there to call a home group and almost any one of them will do as a home group.


Hey Glen,  I got sober in a club in Va.  called "The Unity Club".  That place saved my life.  I was so beat up I could remember what day it was, and I've never worn a watch smile.gif ,  plus having dyslexia made reading a "where and when"  (meeting schedule) and getting to meetings on time, very difficult for me.  I'd show up an hour late on the wrong night ussualy weirdface.   So I got into the habit of just showing up at the club between 5-8pm and catch one of the 4 evening meetings smile . 

Glen, why don't you consider walking to a meeting and see how that feels? 

Dean

 



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Hows it going today Glen? I hope you've had a nice peaceful day.

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I too am thinking of you, and hoping you have had a good day. Keep us posted!!

Joni

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Keep on keeping on, Glen. It's great that you've been able to feel your HP with you & that you're coming back here & sharing with MIP. Good on you! All of this will pass. You're just around the corner to your next phase of happiness & perhaps.. ! ..Serenity.. ;) Danielle x



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