March 2010

Addiction Recovery: Where Are You Along Your Road Of Recovery?

At first, the main purpose of entering into addiction recovery was so you would stop drinking, drugging, gambling, over-eating whatever else you did compulsively. You finally realized that you had a problem and needed to stop, the next thing you did was to admit that you not only had a problem but that the problem [...]

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Report Cymbalta Withdrawal Symptoms To The FDA

As I read all of the comments on the Cymbalta Withdrawal Symptoms Suck post left by people suffering through the Cymbalta withdrawal I am infuriated. I decided that more needs to be done than just compiling signatures on a Cymbalta petition to send to Eli Lilly. I figured rather than just inform the pharmaceutical company [...]

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The First Year Of Recovery: Where I Came From…Where I’m Going

January 26th will be my one year anniversary of being in recovery. As far as I’m concerned, this has been the best year of my life. Sure, it wasn’t the funnest, the easiest, or the most peaceful year. But as far as my well being is concerned, this has been my most productive year ever. [...]

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Relapse:The Warning Signs Were There

Recently I stumbled while walking down my road of recovery…ok I relapsed. The end result to my relapse was me drinking but there were warning signs of relapse that I didn’t focus on.

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Riding Out the Ups and Downs of Life

Life is a series of ups and downs, ebbs and flows. There are many times in our lives when we notice that a significant amount of time has passed with no real calamities. But then… There are those times in our lives when it seems that nothing goes right. From the moment our feet hit [...]

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Reach Out and Touch Someone…Online

Other than writing my thoughts and rants on this site I really haven’t been making that much effort lately to share with people. I decided that I would join some online addiction related groups. I joined Yahoo Groups and I can’t believe I’m about to say this but I love it!

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Addiction Recovery: Building Your Self Confidence

I feel comfortable making the blanket statement that anyone in the throes of addiction has little to no self confidence. I know, “jeez, how did you come up with that one…what an epiphany.” So what happens when you enter into addiction recovery and still feel zero self confidence?

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Taking Responsibility For Our Choices

Our choices in life, good or bad, are just that… ours. Because of that, we need to take responsibility for our choices. What may seem like a poor choice to one person may make complete sense to another. None of us know exactly how life is going to play out so all we can do [...]

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Downer Junkie Asks:How Am I Supposed to Sleep?

One of my huge problems has always been that when I lay down to try and go to sleep…I think and think and think. Thoughts pop into my head about certain things I should have done, things I’m supposed to do, things I have no business worrying about but can’t help it. If you read [...]

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