Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   April 5                                                     Identification

   "Someone finally knew the crazy thoughts that I had and the crazy things
                                 I'd done."

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   Addicts often feel terminally unique.  We're sure that no one used drugs
   like we did or had to do the things that we did to get them.  Feeling that
   no one really understands us can keep us from recovery for many years.

   But once we come to the rooms of Narcotics Anonymous, we begin to lose
   that feeling of being "the worst" or "the craziest." We listen as
   members share their experiences.  We discover that others have walked the
   same twisted path that we've walked and still have been able to find
   recovery.  We begin to believe that recovery is available to us, too.

   As we progress in our own recovery, sometimes our thinking is still
   insane.  However, we find that when we share the hard time we may be
   having, others identify,  sharing how they  have dealt with  such
   difficulties.  No matter how troubled our thinking seems, we find hope
   when others relate to us, passing along the solutions they've found.  We
   begin to believe that we can survive whatever we're going through to
   continue on in our recovery.

   The gift of Narcotics Anonymous is that we learn we are not alone.  We can
   get clean and stay clean by sharing our experience, our strength, and even
   our crazy thinking with other members.   When we do, we open ourselves to
   the solutions others have found to the challenges we face.

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   Just for today:  I am grateful that I can identify with others.  Today, I
   will listen as they share their experience, and I'll share mine with
   them.