Starting a Recovery Forum

Red_Baran

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Hello,

I’ve been a member of bluelight for a long time, i was a using addict for over 5 years and I have been in recovery for a year and 9 months.

I have started a forum devoted to helping addicts and there family’s discuss issues relating to addiction. www.Recovering-Addicts.com

Im hoping to get bluelights support on this project.

Thanks
Red Baran
 
Glad to hear about your recovery and great job on making a forum dedicated to supporting addicts and their families!! Good luck :)
 
If you want to get some support with the forum, you could also start a blog and share your experiences and advice, that might spark some interest in your forum if you link to it :)
 
I am very glad to hear this as well. I still use but have my addiction in a very strong check and have for nearly two years. Now I am working to get my sister clean. Hopefully this can be a place for for both of us to try out. Many thanks...
 
I think it would be helpfull if along with the Questions about how to break the cycle of addiction forum there were also tips and tricks to break the cycle. and then break that down further for the differing types of drugs, ie. stimulant, depressant, deleriant, psycadellic, or other. then for people dealing with certain symptoms of say opiate withdrawls, they can look up things people have found to help them. this also might have an added placebo effect of knowing that there have been other people in thier situation before that made it through fine.

Another helpfull recource might be some simple self assesment tests on things like cognative thinking, self awareness or otherwise re-evaluating. an interactive youtube video or a few carefully thought out questions might do this. and i'm sure videos already exist that do this but i cannot think of one at the moment.
 
Anything that facilitates someone's recovery is NEVER a bad idea.I went into technical recovery at 24-detox,meeting,sponsors....the whole nine yards.I was just shy of the 5 month mark when I relapsed.I am 33 now,34 in the fall and although the meetings were extremely helpful at the time,I do not see myself returning anytime soon.The reason for this is unimportant,what is important is that for 10 years I have worked the steps and continued to struggle with addiction,recovery and relapse with my psychiatrist.One of the things I love about Bluelight is that it covers ALL aspects of drug use,abuse and addiction-including recovery.I do realize,however,that to a newcomer it may be hard to pinpoint the issue amongst the array of forums,especially if you are not familiar with site(believe it or not the rules and regulations,member agreement and FAQs sections provide more than guidelines,together they act as a map that will help you navigate more efficiently through Bluelight).I hope that you will continue to be a part of this amazing community and will bring what you learn from any other drug forums back here and share it with us.I am happy to see this post and I will not only support it and incorporate it into my participation here on Bluelight but I will do my best to promote it amongst friends and those I meet in desperate need of the stability and direction that a forum dedicated to recovery can provide.It is simply another vital part of Harm Reduction and I thank you for letting the community here know.As stated above,I hope you will not overlook The Dark Side Forum and the threads that are geared towards the same goal.TDS is a sanctuary for many struggling to keep their recovery a priority in life.OP-Congratulations on your achievement.Getting clean and staying clean is a daily struggle no matter how much time you accrue.

Much peace and love....................skillz<3
 
Wow this is awesome man! I may just have to join. This really puts the Anonymous in Alcoholics/Narcotics Anonymous btw haha ;)

EDIT: Good lord you might want to install some type of anti spam deal on the forum, general discussion section has been littered with online casino junk.
 
I give you props bro, anything to help facilitate someones recovery is a noble act. Hopefully it helps some people fight thier inner demons.
 
Excellent concept :)

Have you seen our forum we created for this purpose as well? It is titled The Dark Side

Not knocking the dark side, as I've posted there many times over the last few years, but it would be nice if it had an off-shoot to a board devoted more on the recovery and post-WD phases of being an addict.

The Dark Side now is a mish mash of people who are wondering if they're addicts, who are in the midst of contemplating making change, who are in cycles of quitting/using, who are actively using, and who have quit and are trying to move on.

It'd be nice to see a board that was more about life after addiction and the various roads to recovery. It'd certainly be a positive board to look at and would be motivating to the people who are stuck in bad cycles and are trying to quit.

For every thread that is like that on the Dark Side, there are 2 about committing suicide and 3 filled with misery. It can be fairly bleak in there sometimes. :\
 
Another helpfull recource might be some simple self assesment tests on things like cognative thinking, self awareness or otherwise re-evaluating. an interactive youtube video or a few carefully thought out questions might do this.
 
I think this is a great idea. I'm a blue addict in recovery- going to 5-6 meetings a day agter a miserable 5 month hiatus (if only my friends in the program could see some of my postss. At any rate, I have found bluelight beneficial but lacking in that the focus is often more on the wreakage, unmanageability, and other unpleasant results of addiction/drug use and less on the solution to the problem/spiritual principles. Good luck! and keep us posted.
 
I joined Bluelight in my final days of full blown addiction. as a matter of fact i stumbled here looking for a way to beat the time release on the new "op's". as a recovering addict, for now at least, i utilize this site to reasearch and try my best to help others in the same boat. i also read threads of people in the same shitty situation i was in not to long ago. maybe selfishly i see what i dont want to return to...
 
great work, internet is a giant tree of help and with options like this of support it really helps aid people in desperate need.
 
Its a good job man.You are providing a another good plate from to all.Keep it up and keep upgrading that source on regular basis.
 
Its really nice to listen about this and I feel honor to participate in this.I will try my level best to support and motivate the addicted person to get rid of this curse.
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