Ten Forward Lounge - Miscellaneous General Chat & Welcome Thread
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really I did not know where to post these images of my coin.. just a great day today to celebrate .. my freedom from active addition.. very important to me..--- so yeah-- 23 years with out drinking one beer or smoking the pot or anything else.. just 23 years one day at a time.. it is--- amazing I was not planning to live beyond 25 I am 56 now. I go to my meetings and share work with people who help me.. and I stopped using and am living a new way --- in life.-///. it is amazing fun everything is.---
congratulations! One day at a time is just the right way to do it. Problems that seem intimidatingly huge often get quite managable if you split them up in a bit a day.
I've quit smoking 37 years ago and only had one single relaps when I was lovesick. The most ugly tasting cigarette ever LOL. Ever since I've used chocolate to soothe my nerves.
Couldn't use it myself, though, since I am fighting to stay in solid shape after 2 hours already.
One day at a time is just the right way to do it. Problems that seem intimidatingly huge often get quite managable if you split them up in a bit a day.I've quit smoking 37 years ago and only had one single relaps when I was lovesick. The most ugly tasting cigarette ever LOL. Ever since I've used chocolate to soothe my nerves.
I love it
Couldn't use it myself, though, since I am fighting to stay in solid shape after 2 hours already.
congratulations!
I've quit smoking 37 years ago and only had one single relaps when I was lovesick. The most ugly tasting cigarette ever LOL. Ever since I've used chocolate to soothe my nerves
I have a mere 14 years and a few months with out the cigarette.. it was my, medicating myself with every drug in existence that ended 23 years ago today.. I let Dr's do the medicating thing and I am totally honest about everything and not just with the Dr's. Very special day for me. I plan to be at lots of zoom meetings this week and celebrate all week... It's what we do to show people just starting the journey that things like this are possible.
admirable!
My own doctors are atm rather trying to make me addicted. My anxiety is running amok - the fits start quite normally, by a trigger, but refuse to end once the trigger is gone. A single fit lasts up to 5 days now. Because of everyone freaking out about Corona, I can't get a therapy within the next 2 years! So all my docs can think of is suppressing the symptoms with an arsenal of heavy tranquilizers. I want the cause treated, not the symptoms
My own doctors are atm rather trying to make me addicted. My anxiety is running amok - the fits start quite normally, by a trigger, but refuse to end once the trigger is gone. A single fit lasts up to 5 days now. Because of everyone freaking out about Corona, I can't get a therapy within the next 2 years! So all my docs can think of is suppressing the symptoms with an arsenal of heavy tranquilizers. I want the cause treated, not the symptoms
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really I did not know where to post these images of my coin.. just a great day today to celebrate .. my freedom from active addition.. very important to me..--- so yeah-- 23 years with out drinking one beer or smoking the pot or anything else.. just 23 years one day at a time.. it is--- amazing I was not planning to live beyond 25 I am 56 now. I go to my meetings and share work with people who help me.. and I stopped using and am living a new way --- in life.-///. it is amazing fun everything is.---
admirable!
My own doctors are atm rather trying to make me addicted. My anxiety is running amok - the fits start quite normally, by a trigger, but refuse to end once the trigger is gone. A single fit lasts up to 5 days now. Because of everyone freaking out about Corona, I can't get a therapy within the next 2 years! So all my docs can think of is suppressing the symptoms with an arsenal of heavy tranquilizers. I want the cause treated, not the symptoms
the cause is usually very deep ... and would need lots of self motivated type focused work with ones psyche .. it took only like 40 years for me to resolve the childhood trauma there were the meds that happened but --- I was such an obvious addict that I never got the addictive meds..--- but after I was in recovery they did want very badly to get me addicted again my adamant no you will not put me on addictive meds was important like really important sometimes..--
thanks so much Kim..
it is a great year this year.--- I am happy today and every.. day==
Well done
I'm 15 years alcohol free come July 19th
It nearly killed me, but I got the warning and survived.
excellent it is difficult I had not warning and was heading to my suicidal death with every act I did .. but someone showed concern in my first rehab -- and suggested I could be clean .. I thought no, but I tried from then on. and the seed was planted in 1989 so I had stopped the crystal meth smoking then.. and in 1997 it was finally the alcohol and crack and pot coke everything else..it is good 15 years is a very long time .. it is good.
Just keep doing what you're doing dude
Congratulations!
It was close a few minutes ago.. I went to the food pantry and got bags of food and tp and veggies fresh farm stuff. they put two chewies in the bag with everything .. I love chewies.. really do these chewies had chocolate chips in it.. so right? but that chocolate chip has caffeine in it.. I have since the beginning of december been without any caffeine.. period because of my blood pressure thing.. caffeine I love but I love life more .. and such yeah --- I was really close to eating these chocolate things.. --- I talked to my friend on the text with the computer who is in the drug alcohol psych rehab community thing --- I never got a phone when I was in those but yeah he has a phone too.. He was like ,,, eat it live a little ,, I knew better but really wanted this things.. they put in my food bag.. --- I brought them over to my computer area and was planning to eat them --- but I told on myself to my friend in the rehab .. 000 that did not help .. but It made me aware that I should not eat these then my other friend called on the phone .. I told him to come over for a brief encounter where I would give him these food things I could not should not and did not have.. it was solved and done but it was too close I had them right on my computer counter ready to eat .. -- wow. I am ok now no bp problem and no caffeine that would of had me bouncing off walls again and worse. -- it just does that.
It was a impasse that I succeeded with.-- // not that it was hard, I was not looking at it like that.-- it was close --- In a way a kind of caffeine relapse possibility going on.--
it was hard to tell people but then once I did .. I could see what to do. --- so that is what I did.Who out there is in phase 2? I think we are going to be or just starting this week.
The last corona patient in New Zealand has been declared cured and there are no known cases of the corona virus in the country. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has therefore decided to lift all remaining measures. Only the national borders will remain closed for the time being.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2336529-nieuw-zeeland-helemaal-coronavrij-laatste-patient-genezen.html
it is all a different language right.. so I will translate cause google does that-- right yep..--- I would move to New Zealand but--- they are not opening their national borders till the world catches up.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2336529-nieuw-zeeland-helemaal-coronavrij-laatste-patient-genezen.html
it is all a different language right.. so I will translate cause google does that-- right yep..--- I would move to New Zealand but--- they are not opening their national borders till the world catches up.
hmm one swallow doesn't make a summer. I think the NZers would do well to wait another 2 months till they declare themselves corona-free. There might still be some infected people in the hinterland. If the virus behaves the same everywhere, there would be a high percentage of silent infections and those patients can spread the virus even more effective as they are unaware of carrying it.
I just made captain I am so proud!!
Congratulations!
Congratulations! =)
