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You are normal!
We all have challenges. I gave up illegal drugs 4 months ago, and have friends in NA but it is not for me. It helps me to focus on people w/o addiction issues, and to focus on life w/o drugs. I don't dwell in the past but look forward to the future. I don't call my self an addict, I say that I was going through a phase or a tough time, but I am getting better and better now. And I am!
I know where my life challenges lay, and I deal with them as they come up (triggers in the language of recovery). To feel better about life, I help others who need help. Even if it is reading to a child or donating food to the local food bank. If you give away what you cannot afford (time or money) you will be rewarded immensly!
Good luck to you, and keep on keeping on. Talk positive to yourself, even if you don't believe it. Tell yourself lies about how great you are until you can live up to those statements.
posted by
ParisLove
on August 17, 2005 at 1:50 PM
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I'm not sure how many so-called "average normal people"...
are really all that "average". Or, "normal".
E is for Ernest who choked on a peach
posted by
Mademoiselle
on August 14, 2005 at 5:49 PM
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