Depression

If You Lived Here You’d Be Home Now

June 10, 2008 in Uncategorized | 8 comments

In the late 80s and early 90s they were not an uncommon site along the freeways leaving downtown Los Angeles; huge condo projects festooned with banners that read “If you lived here you’d be home now.” When the topic was brought up at a meeting, what are you doing today for your recovery, it’s [...]

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Old Post Cards and Pens and Blue Fiesta Ware

May 27, 2008 in Uncategorized | 3 comments

That was a more emotional weekend than I expected. I learned all kinds of things about my grandmother that I never knew; saw pictures of her I had never seen. It was clear from looking at them that she was as happy or happier in the last ten years of her life than [...]

Tags: depression, family, fellowship, Idaho, Idaho Falls, Unity

Am I Blue?

May 21, 2008 in Uncategorized | 5 comments

Things are good. Really good. Monday was fantastic. At least that’s what I should feel. That’s what Jim told me Monday night when I told him about my day. “You had an amazing day,” he said. I did have an amazing day, but I didn’t feel like I did. I [...]

Tags: depression

Sideways

January 9, 2008 in Honesty | 5 comments

“There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest.” - Alcoholics Anonymous, Page 58 That pretty much describes me at any given point in my history; emotionally and mentally ‘disordered’, gravely. I have at various times been diagnosed with everything [...]

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Day 82 - I wish I could share all the love that’s in my heart

April 6, 2007 in Early Recovery From Crystal Meth Addiction | 2 comments

remove every doubt that keeps us apart I wish you could know what it means to be me Then you’d see and agree that every man should be free. I Wish I Knew How it Feels to Be Free, Jay Haggard It’s funny how a few days of Lexapro and a little crush can lift one’s spirits. Despite the [...]

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Day 78 - We’re one but we’re not the same

April 2, 2007 in Early Recovery From Crystal Meth Addiction | 2 comments

We get to carry each other, carry each other U2, One One of the things I started thinking about yesterday afternoon as I dragged myself out of bed for a cigarette was wether or not by allowing myself to be overcome by depression I wasn’t actually choosing depression as my Higher Power. That was a pretty [...]

Tags: depression, Early Recovery From Crystal Meth Addiction

Day 75 - Meth Menace

March 30, 2007 in Early Recovery From Crystal Meth Addiction | 4 comments

I wanted to share this article with you. It’s among the best written and most comprehensive I’ve ever read. During my first battle with crystal meth addiction I lived in Long Beach, CA. Even then, back in ‘92, Long Beach had a bigger crystal meth problem than anywhere I had ever been, [...]

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If You Lived Here You’d Be Home Now

Old Post Cards and Pens and Blue Fiesta Ware

Am I Blue?

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Day 82 - I wish I could share all the love that’s in my heart

Day 78 - We’re one but we’re not the same

Day 75 - Meth Menace

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