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by abbette
Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:25 pm
Forum: Depression
Topic: SUGAR
Replies: 8
Views: 2678

Can anyone feel sugar making them depressed?
by abbette
Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:10 am
Forum: General Comments/Inquiries about
Topic: AA
Replies: 6
Views: 1115

I have tried doing this program for a year and a half now but I discovered that I couldn't really move forward as long as I was drinking and drugging. I decided to join AA to have support on sobriety and would like to know what everyone thinks about this topic. Thanks!
by abbette
Fri May 22, 2009 1:45 pm
Forum: General Comments/Inquiries about
Topic: :( im so sad
Replies: 7
Views: 1168

I feel like a failure because I never completed this program and ive had it for over a year now I just feel like I can't trust myself I knew CONSISTENCY was KEY but I came to CA to get my sh** together and when I got here I moved into and apartment that had a horrible huge gas leak and made me reall...
by abbette
Mon May 04, 2009 4:20 pm
Forum: General Comments/Inquiries about
Topic: throat closing up!
Replies: 4
Views: 889

My throat always feels like its closing up! I want to meditate and relax but it's really hard to do when all my focus is on how awful and constricted I feel in my throat and chest I think this is common but it really sucks Does anyone have any suggestion as to how to de-constrict the throat/chest ar...
by abbette
Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:57 am
Forum: General Comments/Inquiries about
Topic: STUCK
Replies: 6
Views: 1370

I feel like the harder I try the farther away I get from where I want to be and if I don't try hard I feel like im just giving up on myself and allow the negativity to determine my fate of failure and a life of never ending victimization and insecurity, Maybe I just need a break and then restart lat...
by abbette
Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:38 pm
Forum: General Comments/Inquiries about
Topic: Exposed!
Replies: 4
Views: 1126

When my anxiety and paranoia start (alot has to do with too much pot smoking too, but it's so hard for me to quit) to creep in I feel my wounds are EXPOSED to the world and that hurts more than anything! I want to be able to feel anxious and nervous with out people being able to tell cause I feel li...
by abbette
Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:35 am
Forum: Session 10 - How to Address Obsessive, Scary Thoughts
Topic: Depression and worry
Replies: 2
Views: 2346

You've had a lot going on in your life, June. Seeing a professional for counseling for awhile would be more than appropriate and a Godsend to you right now. Someone who understood your feelings. Yes, this program helps with depression as well. The tools are the same for both anxiety and depression. ...
by abbette
Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:54 pm
Forum: General Comments/Inquiries about
Topic: Floating with it (accepting) AND positive self talk at the same time
Replies: 5
Views: 1129

Does anyone find it hard to float with it and talk yourself positive simulatneously?? I feel like if I am talking myself positive I am fighting and if I am floating with it I am succumbing to the negative feelings and thoughts and feeding it rather than shifting it....seems like a catch 22 only medi...
by abbette
Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:34 pm
Forum: Session 10 - How to Address Obsessive, Scary Thoughts
Topic: always something new and stronger
Replies: 11
Views: 3923

All of your wildest dreams are out there literally waiting for you to claim them as yours, you will have the life you want if you really let yourself believe you are capable of acheiving it, all its takes is choosing to see the glass as half full rather than half empty and you can shift all these ne...
by abbette
Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:21 am
Forum: Session 6 - Stop Being Angry and Control Your Mood Swings
Topic: Obsessive Anger
Replies: 13
Views: 5247

Yea you can clear them but you just have to remember it takes A LOT of PERSISTENCE and PATIENCE. Well actually, if you do that relaxation CD it will make it so you can turn it off in the snap of a finger after a couple weeks . And let me tell you when you can do that it calls for celebration! You ju...