aihfl
Bluelight Crew
- Joined
- Nov 5, 2015
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10! So great to hear from you
Yes, I wish you were around too. Most of my interactions are mostly still with people from AA and Refuge Recovery, but I would really like to get back to the life I had before I went off the rails last fall and get back to the friends and hobbies I used to enjoy so much. I feel ok (maybe it's the Celexa being doubled), but for some reason I still lack the motivation to do it. It's nice, though, that I no longer dread being at home alone (it feels like the refuge home should be) and it's nice to be back to enjoying the small things: reading (I've been inhaling books from the nearby library branch), grocery shopping, preparing my own meals, even puttering around cleaning and doing chores. I've also had the dog back for a while and in addition to her walk, she needs to go out 2-3 times on top of that, so that gets me outside a few times a day.
I wasn't aware you had moved. My old sponsor (still friends with him) is from Philly so we're going to see the Phillies-Tigers spring training game in Lakeland on the 24th. When I'm drinking/using I don't take my meds and the result is not good, so I'm glad you're working toward resolution on that end. Did you ever follow up with St. Jude's Retreat? It looks like an awesome place. I got so dicked around by the place I was going to go to that I ended up not going anywhere. Ultimately, I decided that I'd been in rehab so many times that I would just be hearing the same ideas I heard every other time. But, if I feel like I need to go somewhere, I will. But things are ok for right now and that's all I really have control over. Take care of yourself.
Yes, I wish you were around too. Most of my interactions are mostly still with people from AA and Refuge Recovery, but I would really like to get back to the life I had before I went off the rails last fall and get back to the friends and hobbies I used to enjoy so much. I feel ok (maybe it's the Celexa being doubled), but for some reason I still lack the motivation to do it. It's nice, though, that I no longer dread being at home alone (it feels like the refuge home should be) and it's nice to be back to enjoying the small things: reading (I've been inhaling books from the nearby library branch), grocery shopping, preparing my own meals, even puttering around cleaning and doing chores. I've also had the dog back for a while and in addition to her walk, she needs to go out 2-3 times on top of that, so that gets me outside a few times a day.
I wasn't aware you had moved. My old sponsor (still friends with him) is from Philly so we're going to see the Phillies-Tigers spring training game in Lakeland on the 24th. When I'm drinking/using I don't take my meds and the result is not good, so I'm glad you're working toward resolution on that end. Did you ever follow up with St. Jude's Retreat? It looks like an awesome place. I got so dicked around by the place I was going to go to that I ended up not going anywhere. Ultimately, I decided that I'd been in rehab so many times that I would just be hearing the same ideas I heard every other time. But, if I feel like I need to go somewhere, I will. But things are ok for right now and that's all I really have control over. Take care of yourself.