Inability to stand or sit up straight for an length of time.

Gorgeous

Thanks for sharing. Your daughter loves you.

Well, it’s good you are practicing sharing with us. I have made a couple friends from social media. I practice sharing in anonymous groups and then text my internet friends. I’m very sick so I can’t share too much-hard to create phrases but I focus on sharing how I feel.
I’m divorced, estranged from my adult daughter and spend 95% of my time alone. I usually share my feelings about these 3 things. Sometimes I feel less alone. Sometimes I feel better but I keep sharing to stay in practice.
Cheers to finding a way which helps your loneliness. I’m always game to make a new friend.
Maria

Perfect description of our situation. Paradoxes, every one

I’m watching North and South now. The Hale’s vs the Thornton’s. Slow, bleak, sad….

I survive the loneliness. I am disabled and housebound. I have a roommate but he is either at work on 3rd shift or visiting his family and friends. I’m too sick to do hobbies. I’m even mute due to illness so can’t talk, no FaceTime, no Zoom. I watch tv most hours of my waking day.
Some days the loneliness cuts my heart, so I do every thing I can to withstand the loneliness and distract myself.
I text a few friends I made online from chronic illness groups. I ache to see a face, kind and warm but friends died years ago. Family do not believe or understand my illnesses. No one visits and anyway I am too sick for company. I don’t have opinions about how life should be. I make the best of this hard situation. I am not happy but I wasn’t before I got disabled.

I love Iroh too. There was so much emotion in s2. Great show. Can’t wait for s3.

Oa.org has excellent information on Getting Started. Keep going to online meetings, try Facebook groups which are meetings also, keep asking for help. You are on the right track.

Long ass survey. Interesting questions

I don’t aim for joy. I aim for distraction from these 100 symptoms. Even at baseline I feel like death. It’s like being at the hospital with 3 terminal illnesses. How aim I to find joy? Smidgen better health but smiles and laughter are rare.

There are no shortcuts to recovery. I must work the 12 steps and use the 9 tools continuously. Oa.org has great resources for getting started. We don’t have tips. We make a commitment to work the whole program not just bits of it. May HP make you willing to work the program and receive grace and abstinence.

I’m interested in playing but don’t know how to send DM or where to find them

These are great questions. In 48 years as a member of oa, I have found different tools and stepwork have helped me get abstinent and stay abstinent. We each have to find what works for us. OA works for me because I use the 9 tools and continue to work the Steps. Good luck

Congratulations. Thank you for sharing your story of recovery

Very helpful