Hi my name is Chris and I am a Alcoholic and a Addict......
I just found this forum and I am SOOO Glad I did.. I am new to this sobriety thing my date is 1/8/13 and I am currently doing my 90/90... I have a group and a sponser,,,, But still strugerling everyday.... I work nights in the streets of NYC and it is so easy for me to screw up.. Icake phone calls and now visit this site witch helps ALOT.. There is a ton of great stuff here... I thanka all of you Guys and Gals.. Any little helps... Chris...".
Welcome Chris...Sounds like you are doing the right things...I'd suggest getting a phone list and using it...And don't drink today...It's a struggle early on...The thoughts are there...But we don't act on them...That's the difference...Keep yourself busy...Meetings and stepwork was how I filled my time...It's a program of action....I wanted those promises in that book....They said I'd get them if I worked for them...They didn't lie to me. I'm glad you're here!
By the way...There are a lot more promises in the Big Book than the ninth step promises you hear in meetings...Theses are the tenth step promises...These are the ones that caught my eye..
And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone - even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. We react sanely and normally, and we will find that this has happened automatically. We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation. We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality - safe and protected. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is our experience. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.
Welcome. Glad your here. Keep up the good work, take it one day at a time is key, and in just a few more days we will celebrate your 1 month! Good job.
Glad you found us too ... ... ... Hey, it's not so bad, just don't drink/use TODAY ...
There is not a damn thing that can go wrong in your life that a drink or drug won't make worse ... just don't drink, go to meetings ... you are not alone ...
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Chris, that introductory thread was almost identical to my first post here 4 and a half years ago. I was also doing the 90/90. Most folks that just come here are not already as committed as you are to the program. That is awesome for you! I am hopeful for you. Keep coming back.
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Keep coming back. It works if you work it. So work it. You're worth it!
Thank you everyone for the kind words and warm welcome.. This is a very serious journey I am on and I gonna take it day by day and God willing never use again... I tried dozen time before but on my own program(CHRIS ANONYMOUS) and guess what it never worked... I can't believe tsupport that is out there in the rooms and here on this forum.. Thank you again. Chris
Aloha MADNESS and just a thought...you don't have to just do 90X90...when you can add some meetings to the first 90 within the same period of time. Go after this like you went after a drink and a drug. Keep coming back here also. ((((hugs))))
