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From: [email protected]
Category: Category 1
Date: 08 Nov 1999
Time: 00:01:43
Remote Name: ip72.atlanta15.ga.pub-ip.psi.net
Dear Rhonda,
We have tons of pet theories and ideas about why addicts use, etc. But you don't need any of that right now. Just try to get to a meeting of NA. Let them know what you're going through. You might stay clean five minutes or fifty years after that. WHATever happens, do it on a daily basis. It is the best way of beating the disease on its own ground. We are truely great procrastinators. We can even put off killing ourselves! Just put off using, not now, later perhaps, and when later comes, not now, not now, not now. And finally, some protein, some rest, a couple of hundred gallons of water later, the urge will slowly lift. No picnic, sure, but what did you expect? We did it. It works for us - on a daily basis. We don't generally take in light weights, not that they wouldn't be welcome, they just can't take the incredibly simple - and powerful - principles of recovery seriously. God, I hope you make it girl! I have been right exactly where you're at. I still have feelings of hopelessness sometimes, but it is MUCH better today!
Today I Live,
Bo S.