Have u guys ever thought of making a thread on recovery/sobriety?

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Wolfmans_BrothEr

Wolfmans_BrothEr

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Figured since you can't really go anywhere w.o finding talks of drug use besides the lounge and a few select forums, and there seems to be an abundance of people asking about w.d and all that it would only make sense to make a forum focused directly on recovery/sobriety where people won't b triggered by other posts of drug use...(I know you could just say don't use bluelight)

I dk thought it could b a good idea, may just be the alcohol speaking tho
 
Have you ever checked out The Dark Side?

It is a very supportive forum, and has a lot of threads about quitting drugs/recovery.

Posts that are triggering are removed from that forum, so it is very safe for those that are looking to quit or that are in recovery.
 
I go to TDS quite often, thats kinda what led to all this..although it's about a lot more than just recovery..

I was thinking more along the lines of if someone's looking for support or experience or w.e they have a forum they can go to where it's strictly drug recovery and they don't have to search through miscellaneous threads to find what they're looking for...it's w.e tho
 
Interesting idea but I don't know if it is general enough to deserve it's own forum especially when it is already such a large component of TDS. Perhaps you could work with some mods to design a recovery thread with specific guidelines that absolutely forbid any drug talk at all or whatever else it is you are thinking would be beneficial?

I know in OD we have the Progress Mega Thread which is a less stringent more down to earth OD style recovery thread and in TDS there are all sorts in existence.

Well I just reread your posts and think I get where you are coming from better now. What I believe you basically want is TDS without the more difficult ongoing abuse type threads as well as the depression and less directly related to recovery aspects. I might be off base with that but if not then I'll say that any real recovery forum is going to have to deal with those deeper issues as well as the less intense struggles as it is all part of what recovery is for some people. TDS avoids triggering material as best they can but life itself is always going to be triggering in some ways and you can't permanently sweep stuff under the rug.


Sorry if I'm misinterpreting you here. Maybe a TDS mod will stop by and can give their input. I do think that an absolutely zero drug talk thread might be helpful. If you want to allow people to fully open up about their successes they will likely have to mention their temptations and failures though and it could be hard to limit that discussion while still being a quality resource no?
 
Wolfmans_BrothEr I see drug romanticizing or glorification edited out or otherwise removed in TDS all the time. Read the TDS guidelines. Stuff does inadvertently get posted there that doesn't quite fit in. One can always use the Report Function about posts they think don't fit into a TDS's guidelines about not celebrating drug use there.

However drugs are an integral part of some people's recovery stories. Sharing about relapses or temptations. I don't think you can have drug recovery discussion while never ever mentioning drugs and some people are looking to curtail drug use rather than become abstinent. If you are looking for zero mentioning of drugs and drug use I'd recommend a non-BL forum whose topic and mission is something not drug related.
 
I wasn't really talking about zero drug talk but more along the lines of avoiding threads like "dude I just got a bunch of OC's how can I get the time release off...o yea that worked I'm high as a kite" obviously if your gonna talk about recovery you'd have to include drugs

And enki I wasn't talking about drug topics that don't belong in TDS, what I meant by miscellaneous threads I meant the different suicidal, rant threads etc..(not saying there's anything wrong with them)

Ehh..it's all good....adios guys I'll see u wen I get back from rehab

Edit: amapola I agree what your saying about focusing on deeper issues I didn't really think of that
 
i agree with you WM i would like that thread..im newly sober and sometimes i cant look at the TDS(i know thats my own problem) but it just remindes me of NOT being sober...I think "recovery" thread sounds cool...
 
if you think bluelight needs a recovery thread, start one.

if everybody waited for somebody else to do something, we'd have no forum...

alasdair
 
Ali, I suspect there's a confusion between the terms 'thread' and 'forum', and OP and others are really asking for a recovery forum.

I agree with Enki and others that the Dark Side is really the perfect place for this. That's really why it was started, after all :)
 
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