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Addiction & Recovery

mr_lebowski

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6. First thing to do, IMHO, is to give yourself a break ...

Reply to GreenPartyVoter (Original post)

Sun Apr 26, 2020, 09:22 PM

Apr 2020

If it was easy to get away from, it wouldn't be called addiction, would it?

Great thing is every day, every minute in fact ... is a new chance to start over, and forget past failures.

There is no benefit to beating oneself up over relapse, or ... much of anything, really.

Get yourself to a meeting is my next advice. Virtual, presumably.

Trying to do it w/help is hard, trying to do it alone is damn near impossible

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I am going in circles. Admit I have a problem in the morning, be in denial 2 hours later, and back [View all] GreenPartyVoter Apr 2020 OP

you wouldn't be posting here if you did not want to get better Skittles Apr 2020 #1

Hugs, GPV. dawg day Apr 2020 #2

Go and watch the worst TV ever made Botany Apr 2020 #3

That is absolutely true Zambero Apr 2020 #5

Some of the acting is so over the top bad it is really good. Botany Apr 2020 #8

I binge watch Law & Order / SVU, a little grittier irisblue Apr 2020 #9

I recognize those feelings GPV irisblue Apr 2020 #4

Not yet. Am debating on trying OA again or trying SMART. But yeah, I need that GreenPartyVoter Apr 2020 #7

So can you journal out what feeling/want you are covering up with food? irisblue Apr 2020 #10

Yes. I have a counselor I am working with, but we both think that daily interaction GreenPartyVoter Apr 2020 #11

SMART works for me! bif Apr 2020 #13

First thing to do, IMHO, is to give yourself a break ... mr_lebowski Apr 2020 #6

You need to realize no-one will ever judge you as harshly as you judge yourself. marble falls Apr 2020 #12

I've studied a lots of Addiction & Recovery info & I have been to hundreds of meetings. Stuart G May 2020 #14

Its something I had to learn myself. Getting past all the guilt I had being me was hard ... marble falls May 2020 #15

GreenPartyVoter: What you have described in post 0, your first post is the essence Stuart G May 2020 #16