Why are you in NA?

[dalin]

What brought you into recovery?

[Jay Bee]

At the end of my road , enough was enough, my way was'nt working. H&I planted the seed of recovery:15:. Now inorder to keep what i have, I became willing to do H&I myself. I get over come with joy when someone who has been in a detox / rehab recognise's me on the street and say thank you, and that's what keep's me here. I love the recovery process, I will be forever grateful to NA. Thanks for posting Dalin , you took me back too the beginning:15:

[InRecovery40336]

I was sick and tired of being "sick and tired". I can remember sitting and people watching and wondering how they could be happy and not be high. I wanted to be clean, but didn't feel strong enough to do it by myself. I checked into Rehab and wanted to leave every minute of every day for the first seven days. I wanted to go get high. Getting clean was much harder than I thought it would be. Other addicts with more Recovery time talked me into staying and yesterday was 9 months clean for me. I love being in Recovery. My life is so much better. The world looks better to me and I have gotten to know myself. I recognize I have a disease but recovery is my responsibility. I have to work on my Recovery everyday. I don't spend too much time looking back, but don't ever want to forget how bad thing were when I used.

[Will W]

There came a point after 30 years of active addiction where it was get better or die.
I could sit here for weeks and tell horror stories but they're pretty much the same as the ones we all know all to well.
What brought me into recovery was the desire to stop using.
What keeps me here is the desire to live.

[Just42Dave]

God Told me to...

[Rocket2d4]

A hooker sucker ma...lmao
It's really terriable when a hooker rather send me to NA
then to give me a BJ. I needed serious help.
The movie "Leaving Las Vegas" was child's play in comparison.

God works in Mysterious way.

I'm not ashame or too trip out about my past. After all, i did it.
I didn't really cared oneway or the other. I actauly wanted to
die..the slow way. I tried committing suiecide already before
that.

I felt peace for the first time in my life just sitting
in a meeting stairing at the walls...For an hour or a couple
of hours a day I needed that peace in my life...
I felt a presence of something or god..but a peaceful loving
god or presence. i didn't have a spiritaul awakening...
I just felt peace. For the first time in a long time, i felt
like i didn't have to run anymore.

[justonemore]

After nearly losing my career to drugs..i realized i had to do something about it. I was going to work as a respected nurse, lying, stealing, and getting high everyday. If i ever wanted to care for people again, i had to stop and gain control of my life.

:195:

[dalin]

All three ex wives suggested it.......

[janbear]

I was sick emotionally, physically, mentally. I was out-of-control. I couldnt see me with the drugs anymore or without them. It was like a jumping off point. In my suffering, i said at one point those 3 words, "I need help" to my husband and he took that statement and ran with it.
I was shown a new way to live using the 12-step program in another fellowship. It saved my life. Today i go to NA. I continue go to NA today because it continually saves my life on a daily basis. Working the 12-steps of N.A and living by the spiritual principles to the best of my ability continues to enhance my life in a way i never dreamed possble. That is why i am in N. A
Thanks dalin for the thread. :1:

[serenity3]

habit now, spiritual growth, trauma from the using, loneliness, for stability, to learn, to give a bit, sometimes i feel like i dont need it anymore....i go through phases of wanting to go and then not wanting to go. it does have cultish aspects, it does alot of good though, to try and build a healthier life, to talk about my feelings and experience, to get empathy, to give and receive love, because im afraid, because i cant cope, for perspective, for moral support, for community, because ive been doing it for so long now, to have a positive force in my life, for company, for love, to fit in, to talk.

mixture of appropriate and not so appropriate stuff x

[CD BUCKBERRY]

My wives councillor suggested I go to a meeting,so did her sponsor in AA,I tried it,it has worked so far.

[Just42Dave]

After nearly losing my career to drugs..i realized i had to do something about it. I was going to work as a respected nurse, lying, stealing, and getting high everyday. If i ever wanted to care for people again, i had to stop and gain control of my life.

:195:Im a nurse too...Glad youre here,,,Its hard sometimes bein around all the meds but I look at as 9th step work so the JONZ doesnt ever cross my mind....:85::12::twisted::1:

[skyhook]

For me, recovery has been supported by my HP who has given to me deep resolve to stand in the midst of my life, decisions and consequences without the exit strategy of self medication. Once I had tasted that freedom for a sustained amount of time, my mind, soul and emotions began to heal and thrive. Not perfectly and its a work in progress, but heal enough to never want to go back.

After 18 years of clean time, I still run into days, or hours or moments where I undeniably understand why i used. Fortunatley, or not, I already know what lies behind that exit door and time has taught me that door is far worse than anything this life can throw at me. And this life can be hard.

NA was one of many seasonal experiences that rounded out the picture of freedom from using. It was offered and recieved at a time I was most vulnerable and in dire need of piercing transparency, direction and counsel. The steps were tools tatooed into my daily experience and through exposure, consistency and time have become second nature in my thought process and ongoing life maintenance became second nature.

NA was part of teaching me to fish for myself.

[BIG AL]

The law brought me to the program.I went becouse I had to.I didnt want to get clean.But I sure am glad they did.I would of never met you fine folks:29: