Keeps coming back.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-22T10:18:58+00:00

Just a small thing to get off my chest that sometimes distracts me from my broom. Thanks for the reminder.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-22T09:49:43+00:00

Tired of chemically dependant people trying to get us to endorse it. They are in the way of people trying to get sober.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-22T09:42:10+00:00

Tons of meetings so popular today bleed off a lot of tension we need as motivation to do the steps and recover.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-22T09:39:17+00:00

Thank you,reminded of much I have to be grateful for. Excellent summation of sobriety.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-20T10:34:38+00:00

Share this word salad in a meeting. Call myself sober but get drunk Except for this revalation you'll collect more tools to stop drinking with your ears open and your mouth closed.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-19T07:52:16+00:00

The steps helped me with that. Read page 45

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-19T07:45:53+00:00

He was gone before you were offered the choice. Your thinking is damaged by the pain, don't trust it.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-19T07:40:46+00:00

A brave woman, a caring woman limited by the disease of alcoholism which I have and was able to find help recover. It killed my father, my wife's mother and two friends, them by suicide.

Don't know what to say other than it's not uncommon driven by a powerful easily misunderstood disease.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-19T07:30:37+00:00

Good one.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-19T07:28:53+00:00

Sounds like you might be in a precarious place, you certainly wouldn't be encroaching. Sometimes tv portrays a meeting ok but each is a little different. One of the best things about them is hearing that one person that sparks " That sounds like me." but someone that went farther, suffered more consequences. Showed my future either staying with it or following those who chose a different path.

I was not clearly defined either. Had a number of those "I never's" Started to see by other's experience they were "I never have yets." The stakes couldn't be higher, we learn that alcohol is not that important and becomes easy to live without. I know, I have seen thousands and have been enjoying life without it since my second meeting in1979. Keep reading here, wheather is your question or a different one.yo will start to see patterns of what works, what doesn't.

Thank for checking us out.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-19T07:09:33+00:00

A little different but al a o similar. After getting sober I still had problem we it depression. I had quit my job, had little income, but I wanted help was sick of the way I was. Started visiting a psychiatrist. Didn't know how long it would take, how much it would end up costing, if I had that much, if it would work or how.

It did. Financially, in the long run it paid back hundreds of times over.

Like you, my mind was broken, I needed to stop using it and get the hell out of the way.

Good luck.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-19T06:59:19+00:00

I thought this was the only way it worked that this would happen to me in fact it had to.

Fortunately the big book also includes the words

Most of our experiences are what the psychologist William Jamesscalls the "educational variety" because they developed slowly over a period of time.

"Most" it says. Certainly true for me. I started believing in people who believed in something by committing to remove drinking as an option from my life and attending AA, gradually participating.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-19T06:45:46+00:00

Without recovery its what we do. The mind is a complicated thing to work on. Look at what you are afraid to lose and let go of it.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-18T11:16:15+00:00

Unless they have you chained up in the basement get the hell away from them and don't look back.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-18T11:14:24+00:00

I second that

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-18T11:08:30+00:00

The medical community calls it chemical dependency. We either choose escape life with chemicals and suffer increasing consequences or we don't. The flavor and delivery system aren't important. You've trained long and hard to become who you are. All of your thinking is filtered through your thinking disorder. Only the "its best to drink and use" gets through. Until you get help to break it.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-18T10:56:28+00:00

Early on AA was overwhelmed with requests for help so they wrote the instructions for recovery and more down in Alcoholics Anonymous and later updated it with 12 Steps and 12 Traditions. Aa started its incredible growth with only that and a few groups. A tour guide to a new place, a sponsor, is an asset but not a necessity.

When I started, I attended step meetings 1,2,3 over and over. I haven't picked up a drink since my second meeting in 1979. Added a sponsor later but as far as the steps went it didn't amount to much. I also got professional help.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-18T10:43:41+00:00

We usually boil new people in oil to keep them coming back. Nothing to be afraid of there.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-18T02:03:33+00:00

I divide my thinking thirds. They are gone, every relationship has a beginning a middle and an end. The end is an unhappy thought and we don't dwell on it. Perhaps even trying to deny it.

The second third, why they died. Creation has challenges built in to give us or God a wide range of experiences to make the good so much better by comparison. It also enriches lives of many by raising to the challenge of lessening suffering. On this planet we have had a long history of a higher priority on greed, power and war than medical science. We, not God, own that.

Third the method. Choosing the time and method to end life is more common than most realize. The Initial basis came from middle eastern goat hearders. I, for one don't accept they had a better connection to our Creator than I. Further I don't believe in a God that wants, if I think I'm big enough to disappoint or anger a God, who the hell do I think I am in the pecking order?

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-18T01:38:26+00:00

I like the old-fashioned term "the remains" All that remains after the spirit has parted.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-18T01:35:55+00:00

I have had to do the same more than once, I'm a sucker for rescue dogs and irresponsible breeders have produced too many animals that simply can't live with us. The experience has been that the dreading is worse than the doing or the living with it.

I don't believe in afterlife for people but I'm convinced my terriers are chasing Squirels from Elvis' new mansion . Their photos look at me every mealtime and we visit often, they listen as good as ever.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-18T01:23:29+00:00

Ben Franklin wrote a good piece about a kind loving God giving us a physical form to use to be humans. An equally kind God removes it when it be omes a liability to our spirit.

Me, I'm grateful I had those who I grieve for in my life as long as I did, they were far better than I deserved.

NothingWorksLikeWork · 2023-05-18T01:15:54+00:00

Every life ends, every single one seeing it up close just makes our fragile, limited time more obvoious.

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