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Mood: Fearful
Date: Jul. 02, 2008
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How many mood changes can a person have in one day?  Is it normal to be up one second down the next and then just in a matter of moments feel as if ur right back smack in the throws of those first few days when your barely holding on......I feel as though I don't know anything anymore. I am so certain one second, and the next I dont know a damn thing... I listen at meetings, and I know that early recovery is a very fragile thing, I know that it is not unique to me.  I am so confused, so damn uncertain about everything.  I get up every morning, and go through my day, but the nights, the nights are so long, and it is then I am full of fear, I second guess myself, I feel lost I feel alone, and so afraid.  I know right now I probably should pick up the phone and call my sponsor, but I just can't, I don't want to wake her, or burden her, after all it is not an emergency, I'm just feeling all these emotions and I don't do emotions, at least I didn't while I was still using.  Now here I am, and I'm going crazy in my head, and I don't even know why...I feel overwhelmed, surreal, I don't know who I am, my purpose, my existence, what is it all for.  The highs and lows are sometimes co existing together because I'm cycling so fast at times.  Maybe I am crazy who knows.  I don't even know if what I am writing makes a damn bit of sense I just know that I had to write what I am feeling somewhere so I could get it out, so I am writing it here, where many of you have much longer clean and sober time than I do and probably remember back to the days of early sobriety and can think "ya, I remember those nights," and those of you who are still where I am in early recovery, can say...."I know cuz thats how it is for me too....I am not the only one"...So while I didn't pick up the phone, I did at least do something, I reached out to the people who can understand the best other alcoholics/addicts....Did you ever need to hear the sound of someone's voice just to verify your own existence?  To make sure you are alive, you are real?  That is tonight for me.....

I am so grateful for this site, it is way more theraputic than I ever imagined....I am grateful....that I had a recovery left in me...I am grateful.  So now I am going to end my long day, get on my knees and thank my higher power for the day, and pray for His will for me and for the acceptance to carry that out.  I pray for all of you, too and for the alcoholic/addict still suffering....Good night....






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From: tbaby
July 6, 2008, 10:57 am
My heart goes out to you! I can remember the first year, the first few days... I had those same up and down feelings and there was times when I wondered if I was ever going to be normal again! Hang in there, it will get less like a roller coaster ride and you will stabilize in your recovery.

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From: vmphoto
July 5, 2008, 2:07 pm

Well, Paris has expressed it so very well...I can only add that yes I have been there and survived. Not just survived but thrived! So know that you CAN do it and it is more than worth the struggle.

I, we, are here for you---just stick with it.

Hugs, Vic



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July 3, 2008, 9:20 am

Hi,

  I really am thankful to you for having the courage to put your feeling and thoughts out here for all the world to see. You are not alone in these feelings. There are so many that feel the same, or have felt the same.

Also that you are not keeping them bottle up inside babe girl.You have know idea at this point how much that is needed for you to move beyond days and nights like this.

Some of us have had a hell of a life. That began in childhood. We don't remember it all and it is hide deep in our being. But when you get to the adult stage you realize you are know where near whole. You feel like there are parts of you scattered to mars, jupitar and the moon. And it hurts so damm bad that death feels like it would be a relief.

However some where deep inside there is a voice of justices that lets us know that it isn't even our fault. Our wounds were made before we had a voice that could be heard. Some turn to addiction to deal.

When the time for recovery comes more than anything because the human soul seems to be even dieing. After years of stuffing and denial we don't even know are head from our tail

But this is the beginning of your healing. It is going to be madding at times. But you have already learned you are a surviver or you wouldn't be here today.

The light wants nothing in you in darkness. And if you are ready willing and able, you can and will find your place of contentment. That I am telling you know man, woman, or child for that matter will ever be able to take from you.

You have to sit within your self and face the fear. And let your feelings and thoughts be felt and heard. There is something there that is frightening to you. Or you wouldn't feel so scare, and uncertain. This is something or many things you have never allowed yourself to look at, because it is so painful.

But your spirit already knows of it. And it is time for it to be brought to light, If you read my profile. I had to do alot of work. It nearly killed me and at times all I wanted was to die. I was in a hell during that time,

Now I know because the demons inside me didn't want to let me go. But I own me. And I pulled those demons out and I faced them and I destroyed their power over me. I thougth the day would never come that I would ever be well again.

The medicines the doctors had me on was what was keeping me from getting free in the end I came to know this through much prayer. I had did the work but the medicine was keeping me bound in that painful place. I am talking years here. When I stopped the medicine I was free. In every way from my pass.

Never loose site of your HP. That presents is always and I mean always there rather you think you can feel it or not. Just believe that you are never alone, their is no aloneness when you have a HP.

  I know that is what your spirit is seeking. It is time to be free in every way. And you are going to feel a wholeness like you have never felt. It will not be easy. But it will be worth it. I Promise you that.

You have already began to recovery so much in your body. Now it is time to recovery in your mind and soul.

We are all here to support you. Scream out in anyway you feel you need too. You will be heard this time.

Take care, and hang tough. A new day is coming.

love&hugs,

Paris



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From: Kaiti45
July 3, 2008, 5:28 am

I hear ya on all the points of having 20 bazillion feelings at the same time.  My husband has been a Godsend putting up with my mood swings and when I just needed to leave the house for a bit of peace, he would nod knowing I needed clear air, clear mindset, and clear vision.

 It has gotten a bit better over the past year and a half, but I still blip to the moments of what would I have been doing 2 years ago.....then I have to get those depressing thoughts out of my head.....because it scares me to death of where I might be had I not stopped.

I haven't done the organization sponsor thing, but my friends have been a blessing listening to me rant and rave and a couple have even told me that they can't believe I had gotten to the point of what I did.  I hid it well from some, others I didn't care if I hid it or not......so it is the ones that I didn't hide it from that mean the most when they tell me they are proud of me.

I am proud of you, as is everyone else here.  You are recognizing that YOU are important enough to take care of.  You see that there is more to life then what you can't feel because you were numb to it.  You are allowed to have emotions that go wild and if someone else has a problem with it..... TOUGH.  Society today has gone way beyond the points of correctness when it, itself, has become so numb to basic human emotion.

Cry, kick, scream, sew, garden, color in a coloring book, draw on the walls (well, if you rent like us, you need to put paper up first),  do whatever it is that you FEEL like doing to make you feel better. 

Heck, for that matter, go to the store and help put stuff back when you see it out of place....sorry a little OCD from what a walmart employee told me the other day....but hey it passes time, people might even thank you for putting something back in the right place.

Remember, there is always love here, there and everywhere.  There are no such things as strangers, only friends we haven't met.

Keep you chin up and your mouth closed, in case some birds fly over head....



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From: Hoop
July 2, 2008, 11:41 pm

What an AMAZING thing it is to find out who you really are. It takes a little work and a little time but it's a really bitchn journey if you stay possitive.

Try meditating to quiet your head a lil.

It's like being reborn. learn from it and be kind to yourself.



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July 2, 2008, 10:32 pm

((( hugs ))) Hope you can hang on even when it feels like your life support, a spider web thread, is broken and you're spinning off into the abyss. someone once said, and i believe it, that the only way out is through. Faith in total darkness when despair is eating at your soul, and your mind thinks it's gone insane - that's a really hard one. I lay on my floor at one time for three days and nights, completely depressed, paralyzed, unable to do anything but think my racing thoughts and breathe. feeling completely unworthy to be alive. it took me years to get a grip, really, alot of crap came through.

feelings, they're tough. alot of work had to be done to set my mind at peace. But in time? The joy, the appreciation for life - I felt like I hadn't felt since I was a kid running in the fields in the sunshine. i'd take a breath in and feel wonder. i still do :)

life is beautiful in some ways today, ways I wouldn't change for anything. by the grace of my HP, i will NEVER go back to those times.

as a fellow recoveree, though many years are between me and those days, love ya.

and...i agree - what a wonderful thing that you do have a recovery inside (hiding in there all this time!) giving new hope for your today and tomorrow ~* Hang in there... this too shall pass, Sheila



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From: wdstckdr
July 2, 2008, 9:50 pm
Thanks for sharing. I am having one of those nights. I get my sponsors voice male (might be an omen) and have called a couple NA folk and burned their ears. I am 16 months into this recovery and the nights are still sometimes long. Blogging and talking help. Don't have the magic drug to swim away into oblivion anymore (thank God). The good thing is these nights are rare now, there was a time when they tore holes in my soul. I can look back and know that if I trust in my HP the night gets easier. thank you for sharing- makes the isolation a little more bearable to remember I am not unique. Peace, thanks and love. John (never hold back from bugging your sponsor, my sponsees calls help me stay sober! Sponsors that bitch about people calling need to be fired and replaced).I am sending a prayer to you. JC

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