Thanks to you all, it is nice to know you are here. Peace and thank you.

[anarchy1999]

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I need some friends and some help. Thanks. S.

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I needed some smart people.\

and on edit again. I should have known you all were here. Thank you again.

[anarchy1999]

1. Can any of you help me. I'm feeling a little desperate. I'm scared.

I want to be well. I need some help. I'm searching.

Thank you all again.

Peace,
Sherry

[JimmyJazz]

2. I think some of us have been away for a few days. What can we do for you?

Are you attending AA or another group?

[anarchy1999]

3. AA at 7:00 am M-F and Mr. A and a counselor or two are getting

ready to have me check in to a treatment center somewhere this weekend.

I'm angry and yet I just don't give a damned anymore.

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I forgot to say thank you.

[JimmyJazz]

4. Why are they waiting until the weekend? Don't places normally

accept people right away?

Please keep posting with your progress. I'm concerned for you. I am glad you are in AA and in counseling, though.

Take care of yourself. I wish you all the best in your recovery.

-D

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. Is your anger, frustration at how difficult everything has been

getting? Is your not giving a damn, a kind of bitterness/quasi despair? Even part of the rage?

I've got some advice that may sound simplistic and verging on a shaggy-dog story, but I think it's the way to go.

1. Bear in mind that everything takes time.
2. No matter what you're doing, where you are, what your circumstances, whatever is in front of you, do it to the best of your ability. Success is a habit, and it can begin with the simplest things. Above all it is positive. As someone chose for their username: Nothing without Hope.

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[Joe Chi Minh]

7. You sound much more level-headed/normal than

most people, Sherry, judging by your letters. Your posts read as naturally as a casual conversation, and somehow manage to be upbeat, even your last sentence somehow - though maybe as much for our sakes!

It sounds to me from your posts, however, few they are up to now, that your temperament should be a great asset in combating addiction or a propensity for it. It's outgoing, too, in a people-oriented way. Very American, I think. With my temperament, and without my faith, I think it would be harder.

I don't know if you find prayer a help, but I came across these morning prayers in a prayer book yesterday which immediately seemed to me would be helpful to someone already with an open engaging outlook and a predisposition to kindness; "simpatica", as the Italians say.

Let us bless our Saviour, who by his rising to new life has freed the word from fear. Lord, lead us to the truth.
Lord Jesus, as this day begins we remember that you are risen - and therefre we can look to the future with confidence. R(Response, i.e. Lord lead us to the truth)
We offer you our prayer this morning - take to yourself our cares, our hopes, our needs. R.
Deepen in us our love for you this today - so that in all things, we may find our good, and the good of others. R.
Lord Jesus, we pray that through our own troubles, we may learn to feel the sufferings of others - help us to show them your compassion. R
(Then the Our Father)

Every best wish, always,
Paul

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[Joe Chi Minh]

9. Glad you like it.

Sometimes the sublimity of a particular set of simple petitions like that strikes a chord with me more than others.

I'm approaching 65 now, and am fortunate enough not have suffered from depression more than a three or four times, since my youth; when I seem to have been a manic-depressive, with tremendous highs and tremendous lows.

But on the occasions when I have felt really down, since then, I told myself that time was the key; that it would pass before very long; maybe hours, maybe a day or two; and the only thing to do in the face of it, was to let it roll over me, accept it as a temporary phenomenon, a feeling that simply had to be weathered, endured for that brief period. I don't think it ever did last 24 hours. I just mention this in case you do feel particularly low sometime, more than very lonely and unhappy - though I hope you not.

Keep us posted with some of your thoughts and experiences, won't you, Sherry?

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hope she gets the help she needs