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- From: heath@athena.cs.uga.edu (Terrance Heath)
- Newsgroups: alt.support
- Subject: The first step is a lu-lu!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.231334.8082@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 23:13:34 GMT
- Sender: heath@athena.cs.uga.edu (Terrance Heath)
- Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
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- I'm posting this here because I'm nowhere near a phone right now. As
- soon as I leave here I am going to make a phone call. Lots of them, if
- I have to.
-
- Right now I am feeling crazy. I had a bad day, like anyone else would.
- But for me, something clicked today, something that triggered years of
- anziety and insecurity. Something trivial seems to have nearly driven
- me to desperation.
-
- I wanted a drink today, as I have since my first day of sobriety, but
- more than I ever have before. It would have been my cure for
- lonliness, and insecurity. Right now, I feel trapped because I feel
- as though I will have a nervous breakdown if I *don't* have a drink,
- but I'm afriad I'll eventually have a nervous breakdown if I do have a
- drink.
-
- Meanwhile the "voices" ring on, some laughing, some cajoling, and the
- loudest of them weeping. There is no corner of my mind I can crawl
- into where I can't hear them. I've tried every thing in my power to
- make them shut up, and nothing works. The last time I tried it, not
- even alcohol (at least not the amount I had) could shut them up. My
- sorrows have refused to be drowned. There seems to be nothing I can
- do.
-
- Until now, I've had trouble with the first step :"We admitted we were
- powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanagable."
-
- I hit that one word 'powerless' like a brick wall, and then I stopped.
- I hate the very idea of being powerless, but here I am trapped between
- my mind and a bottle, feeling like I'm crawling around on my handsm
- and knees like a baby, not knowing what to do. So maybe powerless is
- what I am.
-
- I don't know how I feel about God, or HP. I've tried him before, and
- he's let me get hurt before. I've spent most of my life controlling
- pain. Going to great lengths not to let myself feel any pain, and
- eventually unlearning to ability to even cry when I want to (and I
- want to now, but I find I cant), because I was afraid once that if I
- started I would simply never stop. And I've never been able to
- completely regain trust in anyone who ever hurt me, or let me be hurt.
-
- I'm rambling on and on, but I find myself at the first step now, ready
- to admit to myself and others that I have a problem which I am
- powerless to fix.
-
- What do I do now?
-
- --
- "Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act!"
- -Joseph Beam_
- Terrance Heath
- heath@athena.cs.uga.edu
-