welcome!!
you are probably an addict as everyone guessed. many of us are check out the twenty tools. i had the most benefit from face to face meetings and now making a few phone calls a day and listening to my sponsor (that's an SA thing)
it also helped me tons that i have a mentor from here who i can (and do) call often.
best of luck

cordnoy wrote on 12 Jun 2017 11:42:

mikestruggling wrote on 13 Jun 2017 19:04:

I usually don't reply to these things, but I can't watch this on the sidelines. My experience has shown that labelling oneself an addict is an incredibly personal decision. No one could tell me I'm an addict. I needed to decide that for myself. I refrain from telling people what they are. I only call them a label if I know they already call themselves that.

Shlomo24 wrote on 13 Jun 2017 21:19:

All they are all doing here is validating his personal decision Shlomo.
As his opening post began in this thread

It's funny. I thought I might be out of context. But then I realized I didn't care. I thought "If he calls himself that, great. So I look stupid. Yay. But the message isn't tied to this thread specifically. It's something that I feel everyone should understand."