Posted by Kalamatianos on December 26, 2003, at 2:02:35
In reply to You didn't answer the question. , posted by DaisyM on December 25, 2003, at 22:36:15
Thanks Ms DaisyM, for responding.
Dr Bob simply asked me to change my posting name. Because I was new, I had made a mistake or 2. I have cleaned up and tightened up so as to not irritate. I speak from the first person and about me and what I consider the miracle that I have become, considering the dark pit I used to see my life from before.
Inside 12 step programs, their is a level of despair that denies a members right to heal and get well from the disease of addiction. Its as if members are shown the door to the way out and they aren't allowed to go through it. Food addictions were my flavor of dysfunction. A member must eat 3 times a day, so in a way, food can be a bigger problem than drugs and alcohol.
With drugs and alcohol, there is still somewhat of a voluntary nature to the addiction. Yet the loudest voices saying you can never get well come from drug and alcohol abusers who succeed in becoming dry, clean, and sober, but never well.
I hear a similar notion in the honest sharing during posting. Since I have personally witnessed this progress to unqualified wellness, I freely pass on every clue I can think of. I also sense that what I share is so new and controversial that it can't be trusted and therefore must be avoided. Are you sensing this in responses to my postings?
I am not desparate to be understood, even though that is a common urge. I was carefully coached on that very point and many years ago dealt with it directly. So instead, I'm here to help, and I hope I am helping.
What do you think? Am I helping? Or, is helping from the viewpoint of success, so outrageous that I become part of the problem instead of part of the solution?
I trust your opinion.
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