What Are You Recovering For?

[KwanYingirl]

@SheilaKathy good luck with your writing!! So many homeless people are intelligent, hard working people that suddenly lost their income. As a nation we could do more to help.

 

[RussH]

To show my abusers, and the rest of the world that they cannot beat me.

 

[rightkindofme]

I'm a big fan of Harm Reduction and I don't believe I will ever recover. Too much early developmental trauma stuff. That said, I continue to work on being better at managing my issues because I want to be someone my children can respect. I want to be someone they genuinely can respect.

Beyond that, once my children are grown I want to do research on incest. I want to find out more about why it happens. To whom. I want to understand it better. I've read every major published study to date. They don't tell me enough. I have to get my issues under control so I can go work with people who are currently more traumatized than me.

That's hard.

 

[Maryec]

What motivates you to keep working at recovery? Basically the alternative. Not working on PTSD an...

Excellent answer! Because it beats the alternative. I'm a "fixer" too, and since I'm in the care-giving field I find it hard not to be co-dependent. My son just moved back in (late 20's) and I'm doing laundry, cleaning up after him etc...just because his heart is broken (broke up with live-in girlfriend of 4 yrs) but it's certainly not helping him. Seems I'm better at taking care of others than myself, lol

 

[Deleted member 29920]

This is a great question. And I can't actually answer it, because it often feels like there's no point in me trying to recover. I feel worthless.

 

[Gadgie]

No CJ your not worthless, you are juts having sh!t day, we all get them, look for something positive in every day, no matter how small.

The other day when I was on a right downer, I went to the front door for a smoke, looked up and saw my favourite birds, swallows, as they dart about all over the skies, I love watching them.

After I had stood there for a while, I realised that watching them had cheered me up, so much so, that when I came back in, I felt totally different about things, and my day got a lot better.

 

[Deleted member 29920]

I love swallows too thanks Gadgie :)

 

[Weemie]

For my future.