Sober Villagers

Waking up late from a nap I find myself determined to break from this crap,pissin me off to no end,so I wrote it down,I just didnt know where to send......



Past thoughts racing through my head, will they ever leave me alone,even when I arise from slumber bed,nightmarez,demonz,fighting me all the way,angels looking to see where I may decide to lay,pondering,wandering in so deep ,making me float into a ocean of grief,fighting,battling driving my way through,iz it real and or iz it true,am I still that lost soul,do I not have the power everyone seez me as whole,angry madness rips me in two,forseeing thingz that will break throiugh,can I not break free from this past,why must I alwayz be the last,until I find what I have to, I will never give in, and I will never again be a fool ........

Hi my name is daryl i am trying a different but not so new type of recovery called harm reduction i am not ready to give up drugs totally but would like to cut down slowly but surely with the goal to eventually stop for good my drug of choice is crack i started this form of recovery by first leting people know who wanted to help me well i was finally able to be honest and admit i was using then i started going to a support group weekly then having a social worker to talk to weekly who i still am seeing then we came up with plans of how i am to meet my recovery goals i started doing it once a week now its at once a month of course with a few ups and downs in between but its a process that i am never going to stop even when i mess up i been sober now 20 days in now the goal is to do another 14 days then use then do another 30 some days which is my goal of once a month this has not been easy process for me but with every setback i learned somethinf more about recovery and about myself what way we choose to do this recovery thing lets not give up i am wondering are there other people out there doing the same as me well let me know. Bye

I finally finished entering (almost all) of the paper I carried away from Brattleboro. It's in a MS Word doc so I could post it all at once or post it a piece at a time. I can also send the doc as an attachment to anyone interested. How should I post this stuff (or should I just forget it)? Any preferences?

Also I have two books to recommend. They seem to "feed" off each other and might be benificial to anyone suffering - from depression or other mental maladies and even addiction - they seem to be helping me.

They are:

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook by McKay, Wood, & Brantley, pub. New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2007

and

Don't sweat the Small Stuff and it's all small stuff by Carlson, pub. Hyperion 1997

Hi, Welcome to the sober village.
Please make yourself at home here.
:bye:

I no longer have an option in my CP to import an avatar from my computer (custom avatar)but I do have an option to import a photo for my CP page. Would tech support please turn on my "custom avatar" option when you get a minute, please?

Thanks! :You_Rock_Emoticon:

Here we go Buddies - September has suddenly arrived! Thanks Zanna for your choice.

September here is supposed to signal the start of spring - I sincerely hope that is the case! The news this evening informed us that this winter has been the coldest for more than 10 years. The forecast for spring/summer is better though, with above average temps on the way.

No doubt I will soon be complaining about the heat...:sun:

Have a great month everyone.

Fifi :flowerface:

Hi Jerry, :bye:
Welcome to the village.
Tell us a little about yourself.

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According to this article there is or was a issue concerning the Vbulletin Software and hackers getting emails and administators passwords. According to the article the 3.8.6 series is at risk

BBC News - Firm scrambles to patch vBulletin software flaw

Really kinda sad since Vbulletin is a very expensive piece of software when there are many FREE Forum Software's that don't seem to have near as many issues. My own opinion is that Vbulletin has gone down hill