Isolating?

[admin]

Do you still isolate? What do you do when you find yourself isolating?

[dalin]

I genaraly get a call from a sponsee.
Kinda yanks my head from my rear end.

[admin]

LOL Thanks ((((dalin)))). :42:

[Dan B]

:29:Isolating? Do I still isolate? YES! What do I do when I find myself isolating? Right now I am doing this. Turn the TV on. Listen to music. Go to a meeting. do service work. talk to another addit. Sleep. Go to work.Go out shoping and walking.Work the 12steps. Read. Eat. Drink coffee and smoke cigeretts. Pray to GOD and meditate. Travel. Go on vacations.- If I didn't isolate I wouldn't have a life!

[anniemac]

No, I haven't isolated in a while. When I used to isolate, it was because I was feeling sorry for myself for one thing or another; thankfully I have not felt the need to sit on the pity pot for quite some time now.

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[Humblepie]

I start to think negative thoughts mostly about me but now I realize about others 2. When I talk to other people I don't have those thoughts.

Isolation for me does not prove anything good.

[kaistevens]

I still isolate. I am just continually amazed how many of my thoughts, feeling, and actions, are in response to fear. Without even noticing it, I will start to shrink back from everything, and it's not until I get myself completely alone that I realize I am paralized with fear.

As soon as I see that, I call somebody. Sometimes just to talk, sometimes to talk about what is inside my head. It's all these old ideas and beliefs that seem to me to be cunning, baffling, and powerful. Learning to see them is a challenge, tho I am getting quicker about it these days.

[Montauktammy]

Isolation is one of the thing I struggle with the most I am a single mom who works full time and tries to go to meetings and there are times when my phone rings all hours I have started my step work again. I love my friends and they are always there for me when I need them, but there are times that I want to turn off my phone and just stay in my house for a week and not come out. I am not depressed or unhappy I just want to be alone. And I have to push my self to not shut people out when I go through these times. I just tell my friends what I am going through and they seem to have a knack for finding some way to let me be me, and as long as I don't pick up they are happy for the time we have time and learn to understand that, I need me time too. My child on the other hand not always so understanding. She pulls me out more often than most she always want to be doing something outside the house.
Tammy

[dalin]

I know that when I isolate,I am steeling time from God and
time from others...without even realizing it.
One of the ways I still do it is by wasting time.
I know that the shcedule I set for myself is insane,
and unfulfillable.
And the end result is that at the end of each day,
even tho I have been busy,I still feel isolated and alone.
It is part of my recovery that I am trying to work on.

[CD BUCKBERRY]

I know I isolate,I stay away from meetings,which is not good.I spend time on internet doing N.A.related stuff to keep myself thinking right and in a positive direction.

[sioux]

No I do not isolate. I make a point to leave my house every day. Especially now that I am unemployed.

I have changed things. I don't have the cache of food. I shop everyday or other day for food. Let the bombs drop, I don't have a short/long term survival plan.

I go to a meeting everyday or other day. I call someone in recovery every day. My kids need sober mom to drive them to events and sports. I do service work in and out of AA.

Emotionally I do not isolate anymore either. I was the lonely person in a crowd of 50. I have learned to speak up and ask for help when I am in that small place. I have a Creator that listens and a sponsor too.

Isolating is something I don't have to do today. I believe it is a big indicator of a pending drink. I can't afford it.

I believe we are as lonely as we want to be.

[tombob]

I never realized that isolation was common for recovering addicts, I always thought it was just the way I am. I never went through any programs, I just realized I was killing myself and I would never have anything or be anything the way I was living so I quit. It wasn't easy and after ten years it's still not but it does make me feel better to know that the urge to go inside yourself and forget the rest of the world isn't abnormal, maybe I'm not as crazy as I thought :-)