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Hi peeps. Brilliant site! Will be coming back here on a daily basis! 1day to day is my day.......

Wow,,, awesome! It's so wonderful to see all you new people to the site. It's what keeps us going and happy in recovery.

Looking forward to meeting you all

Melly

Welcome to the best journey of your life CRAIG , look forward to meeting you in the rooms!!!

Hi family! I'm Chris, a grateful recovering alcoholic from VA. Just found this site tonight. Already met some great people! Looking forward to more visits here as an addition to my program! Thanks for making me feel so welcome!

Welcome Chris. Glad you're here. I met you in chat last night and look forward to seeing you again.

Welcome to all of the newcomers!! We are so glad that you are here!!

love and hugs,

chelle

Welcome to all the new people. Look forward to meeting ya in chat and meetings.

Hugs

Welcome Wendy. I look forward to seeing you at the meetings and in our chat room.

Larry

I just realized I never formally introduced myself. I'm Mrs. B, alcoholic. Married, 38, mother of two girls, stepmom of two boys, and owned by one cat who also owns the lady 3 houses down. Fickle creature.

Nice site, nice people. Good to be here.

Hello Mrs. B.

hobie, alkie, addie and a lot more from Cleveland.

49, married, father to 2 sons and 2 step daughters and servant to 4 cat and 1 very confused dog.

Welcome home!

Welcome back Miranda! I do remember you but you have been away for awhile. Hope everything is going okay for you and it's nice to see you back. 

 I just want to say thank you very much for all the support everyone has given me so far!!!  I'm Ana, and am a alchoholic. I have only been sober for a few days and happened to stumble on to this site. Trying to get to a f2f meeting, but this has been a good first stepping stone, (need to get the courage, and think i'm ready).  Everyone has made me realize that I do need to seek help, and that I am not alone.   A million thanks!

Hello Everyone,

I am 38yrs old with a 13yr old daughter. She doesn't live with me (yet) but she does visit with me quite often. I have 2 dogs, of which I believe that my parents have dog napped them both and they won't be returning to me.

I am so grateful to my parents and my cousins who intervened on my addiction. I cannot express in words how much I love them for not giving up on me during my darkest of hours. I hope that my continued actions can speak for me.

I work at a 3/4 recovery residence here in the Metro Atlanta area. I am truly blessed to have the opportunity to give back each day what was freely given to me.

If I can get this thing called recovery, and believe me I DIDN'T WANT IT...... So Can YOU! Now, I don't want to live without it! The Blessings are truly AMAZING!

I have just added to this forum its a good site where the addicted people can be recovery ourselves through constant mediatiaon. Those who are addicted to the drugs they should just add a member to this forum.   

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steve

Crystal Meth Addiction

Hello all.  Thank you for the warm reception, and hello.  I'm Jimster, and I'm an alcoholic..........

Welcome, Jimster!  Glad you're here!

Hi, I'm Zappy74.  I'm an alcoholic.  Really glad to have found this site.  Look forward to chatting this Thursday.

Welcome, Zappy!  Love the name, by the way !

I would like to thank EVERYONE for the warm welcome I've received here at Recovery Realm.  I have never been to a site where I felt so at home immediately.  I am really impressed.

I did a search on the internet for online AA meetings, because I have been out of rehab for 6 days (well 7 now) and I have yet to attend a face-to-face meeting, because of logistical problems (namely, no car).  I haven't been able to connect to other sober people.  I mean I have neighbors who have never had an addiction issue, who are sober, but I don't have anyone who knows what I am going through.  I mean, I can only think of one of my friends, where addiction isn't an issue.  

My friends aren't people I did my drug of choice with, but in retrospect, they all have issues of their own, be it narcotics, like me...or alcohol.  They all have their own demons, so I need to find sober people to connect with.

At least here, I know I have a support system.  Everyone is so friendly and helpful, and I know that my higher power led me to you.

Thanks so much,

Caren Mc

Welcome to all of OUR newcomer's.  I'm Carrie, a grateful recovering alcoholic.  So glad your all here.  Hope 2 C U in chat.

Hello -my name is Diane and I'm an alcoholic. Really grateful to have found this site.

welcome dplunk,

glad you are here, I am Bobby and a recovering Alcoholic. Look forward to meeting you in chat.

Hi! I just found this place and it looks great! Looking forward to getting into it!

I'm celebrating my 18th day sober!

Welcome to all the new people!

Congrats on 18 days KMO79!!

Hey everyone, my name is Cookie and I'm an alcoholic...New to the site...

Welcome Cookie,

Glad you found us!! Hope to see you in the chat room soon

Nicole

Tbear---- how ya doing today? It was nice meeting you in the chat room yesterday.

Welcome David, Oxy, and cookie!

Debs, it's nice to see you. I hope all is well with you

Okay, I am new here. 

Just to get it out there, I think I might have a problem with drinking.  Maybe some of you can relate. 

I don't "have" to have a drink every day, in fact I go day sometimes weeks without drinking.  I am in the Navy, and if you read my bio, you'll see that I have a beautiful family.  I am 29 years old, and looking for help.

My problems consist once I start drinking, I tend to lose track of things.  This happens everytime I go out to sea, when I do not have the wife near.  I am away from the family, the kids, and "fee single".  I tend to go over board alot, and it have cost me some pain and anguish, of which the latest was me chewing up a young sailor (which I am considerably higher ranking) while I was drunk.  I know I was wrong but now I stand to lose my career and my family over this stupid act. 

Question...

1.  Is anyone here military?

2.  Do AA or other treatment programs recognize this?

Thanks for listening...I hope to have many more responses from you and look for the the conversations.

Again, tthank you

Good Morning out in recovery land.  It is a beautiful red/organe sunrise here in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.  I am grateful to have this day to recover.

In answer to twiztd and Waiting. I don't think it would hurt either of you to get in touch with AA and go to a few meetings and see if that is what you need.

I know that for me, AA was the answer. It's a great program that gives us tools to live everyday, one day at a time, in sobriety.

We have meetings here everynight and some during the day so please check our schedule on the home page and join us for meetings or for some chat in the chatroom.

It's been my experience that if you think you have a problem, you probably do.  Normal people don't have to think about controlling their drinking or how many pills they take.  They don't have to control something because it's not out of control for them.  They have the ability to say "No, thank you, I really don't want another drink", which I was utterly incapable of doing.

Please join us in chat or our online meetings and see if you find similarities between our stories and yours.  If so, you might find that AA or NA is the right place for you.

As I've said before, I've never tried to gin control of a car that was already in control.

I was trying to control my drinking for years, but that is not the biggest clue that I had a problem.

I see social drinkers, I have many friends who are, and when we go to events where drinking is a part of what is going on it is almost always a side line of what is happening, not the main event. Even New Years Eve was about the dancing, talking and general fun for them.

If I had been there during my drinking days the booze would have been my main focus.

To me, near the end of my drinking days, the drinks and the pills were more important to me than the other people or anything else.

It was not always like that.

There was a time where the booze was an essential part of the party, and over time it became what the party was all about and eventually what I was all about.

Addiction, alcoholism or what ever other face of the disease you may be facing is a progressive thing. It’s like an elevator but it only goes one direction, down.

You can get off at any floor you want.

Some of us lost almost everything, family, jobs, homes… some of us lose our lives or our freedom.

You do not need to lose it all. You do not need to lose another day of your life to this disease.

You do have a choice.

The elevator of alcoholism only goes down, the steps will take you to heights beyond your wildest dreams.

Well… at least it has for me.