Comments on: Staying Positive in Addiction Recovery http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/staying-positive-in-addiction-recovery/ Stories, Struggles And Success of A Recovering Addict Trying to Do What Winners Do Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:54:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Brittney http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/staying-positive-in-addiction-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-11743 Brittney Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:59:23 +0000 http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/staying-positive-in-addiction-recovery/#comment-11743 omg thank you so much for posting that .. I've been feeling totally empty and numb although I have been clean and sober for the three months now.. but due to my addiction I have hurt many loved ones on the way .. I regret every single thing I have done.. I've pushed so many people away, and I've lost those who were the closest to me.. I've passed up so many opportunities, and now when I go to parties or any kind of social gathering i see people whispering, and saying bad stuff about me because of the messed up things I would do at parties, although I am happy with my progress, and proud, and am graduating and going to college in the fall. I still don't feel as happy as I used to be before doing the drugs and alcohol, I just feel completely empty.In order to deal with any feelings, stresses, emotions I was experiences I would use drugs, and alcohol thinking that it would make me feel better, and all the problems would go away but I have learned that is is okay to feell stressed,angry,depresed, or sad, I am supposed to . I am a human being, and just like the rest of us I have feelings.Although I have my temptations due to the fact I am not completely happy where addicton has landed me at this point in my life, I stay postive and determined to do better, and go far with my life. omg thank you so much for posting that .. I’ve been feeling totally empty and numb although I have been clean and sober for the three months now.. but due to my addiction I have hurt many loved ones on the way .. I regret every single thing I have done.. I’ve pushed so many people away, and I’ve lost those who were the closest to me.. I’ve passed up so many opportunities, and now when I go to parties or any kind of social gathering i see people whispering, and saying bad stuff about me because of the messed up things I would do at parties, although I am happy with my progress, and proud, and am graduating and going to college in the fall. I still don’t feel as happy as I used to be before doing the drugs and alcohol, I just feel completely empty.In order to deal with any feelings, stresses, emotions I was experiences I would use drugs, and alcohol thinking that it would make me feel better, and all the problems would go away but I have learned that is is okay to feell stressed,angry,depresed, or sad, I am supposed to . I am a human being, and just like the rest of us I have feelings.Although I have my temptations due to the fact I am not completely happy where addicton has landed me at this point in my life, I stay postive and determined to do better, and go far with my life.

]]> By: Selena http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/staying-positive-in-addiction-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-6956 Selena Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:15:44 +0000 http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/staying-positive-in-addiction-recovery/#comment-6956 Wow, another excellent post. I was feeling a little down before I read your post and felt a little better after reading it. I don't even remember how I found your site but it is a God send. I thank God for you. Wow, another excellent post. I was feeling a little down before I read your post and felt a little better after reading it. I don’t even remember how I found your site but it is a God send. I thank God for you.

]]> By: The Discovering Alcoholic http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/staying-positive-in-addiction-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-36 The Discovering Alcoholic Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:10:28 +0000 http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/staying-positive-in-addiction-recovery/#comment-36 I know it sounds silly, but I just try to concentrate on consciously identifying that I am currently in a funk. Things seem to be just a little less depressingly overwhelming when I can reassure myself that all is not loss, that I am just in a funk. The trick is being able to identify this at the time, not only in retrospect. Sometimes I am able to, sometimes not. I know it sounds silly, but I just try to concentrate on consciously identifying that I am currently in a funk.

Things seem to be just a little less depressingly overwhelming when I can reassure myself that all is not loss, that I am just in a funk. The trick is being able to identify this at the time, not only in retrospect.

Sometimes I am able to, sometimes not.

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