I'm getting tha antsy feeling - Withdrawal...Hey Let me know if you hear me -- I'm needing the encouragement.

wassa marra mein tiera kindt?

I know EXACTLY how you feel about withdrawal. The bank makes me very nervous. i never have enough in there when i need to take some out...

Now let's take a deep breath n' THINK!! #1 is to PAUSE. Count to 10 backwards in swahili. Then THINK again:

Withdrawal from WHAT?? From the false pleasures that you're gonna hate yourself for afterwards, that's what. Is it WORTH IT????

Next, #2:

What can you do RIGHT NOW when you feel your resolve slipping?

You've already started doin' it right. You've prayed, and you've posted. Now you have to PROVIDE.

Get out of your current environment and do something good for someone else.

Do a q quick chesed: call a parent just to say you love them. call a sick person to wish them a refuah shelayma and let them know you're thinking of them. Plan to visit a hospital on your way home or during your lunch break, give a stranger a bikur cholim visit. Go to the local kosher store and offer to help a little old lady with her packages, if she wont spray you with pepper. give some else's son in shul a kiss on the keppie and let him know what a big boy he is. call a good friend's wife behind his back and let her know what a great guy she married, tell her something special he did to build up their shalom bayis. Give a BIG SMILE to everyone you meet, be the first one to greet.

Doing something NEW to show yourself what you already know - that you are one hakkafa good guy - and that warm fuzzy feeling of doing good in the world and benefitting your fellow yidden will pull you thru.

And, of course, it wouldn't hurt to promise yourself ice cream if you're a good boy for the rest of the day. Lo lishma bo lishma.

And anyway, this is NOT Overeaters Anonymous....

Let me know what flavor you're having.... and KUTGW!!!

Thanks Stevele..

B"H Things are getting very busy here...I don't have time to think about thinking


Withdrawals from the Bank...I know what your Talikng about NSF...Hashem Yerachem :_)

Gotta go

How is it that everybody else around here can type just a few words to get their point across, and Yours Truly needs a meggillah?!

Glad you're Good, Great Growth Going.

Gotta Get Going 2.

Gone.

I'm glad to hear that you're doing well! Keep rocking!

Thanks for being there, not so SilentBattle...Gat iz a Guter!!!

According to Dr. Drew Pinsky (addiction therapist who has various tv shows dealing with addiction), addicts start feeling the effects of withdrawal approximately after one week sober. So it's only normal. But don't give up, human! You're an inspiration.

Withdrawal means that it is actually leaving your body/psyche!!! You don't get withdrawal when you are well stocked with baddy baddy stuff. so the withdrawal is  great sign, celebrate it!!!

A big Shot of Woody for Human (who's finding that like all humans, he suffers from Withdrawal, good for you!!!)

Thanks for the perspective.

HB withdrawel in this fight is a GOOD sign. Take chizuk from it. It means your getting places!! Keep on rockin bro. Oh you can roll if you wanna :D

Thanks for the Kind and loving responses...You helped me get to Day # 7 - I haven't been cleen a full week since....I do n't even know.

A quote from the great Music Composer YomTov Ehrlich A"H - As sung by A. Fried in Yiddish Gems Volume 2 or 1? -

....Mentshen Tzi Vaist Ir/ Vos iz geshen da ...shrekleche hailike Zachen/....Tzu Nemen a Mentch un in ain halbe sha'a em azoi gliklach tzu machen...

May Hashem reapy all of you in kind...We will make today a good day!!!

A week is an incredible level of shleimus! That's fantastic!

We're proud to have you among us!

And by the way, regarding your feeling of humanbeing wrote on 07 Jan 2010 17:18:


...I know, it's incredible, right? before you starts, it seems like it would be impossible. And it IS hard, but far more possible than you imagined.

When i first started here, I was trying to get away from other issues, but my therapist recommended complete abstinence - I was skepitical. i mean, I knew that it would be a good thing, but that wasn't my primary battle, and i thought that at least keeping this outlet would make my main struggle easier., And honestly, I didn't really think I could do it.

And yet..thank god, I'm past the halfway mark to 90 days and beyond!

You'll look back and laugh with joy!

To actually talk to people that can really and truly relate to you..Gives me persmission to truly evaluate myself for the very beautiful humanBeing and Yid that i truly am...

We break the glass by a Chasunah and then everyone shout MAZAL TOV!!!...B"H I'm marriying a human being, that may break thing from time to time, not a freeking computer....

If you are a computer you cannnot be a Mentch and be able to present all that beautiful struggle as a most precious gift Hashem ....Hashem gets no Nachas at all from Malachim...They are boring and are not the reason why hasehem made a world...he made it so we little, and oh so imperfect human being struggle and do such beautiful, perfect, holy and beautiful things.

Can I come for shabbos??