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Where I sit now. As I get strangely better; I find myself stronger and able to stay away from the 12 step groups more n more. But; I also find myself locked in my room at my apartment. Meaning; Im stuck in an apartment in a strange town. I don’t know anyone here. Ive spent my time at 12 step groups for therapy; and ignored everything else.
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I don’t really fit into the world outside of the 12 step groups; I don’t even know this place; this outside view of town. Im virtually alone.
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Its like Ive been in a hospital for 30 years; Now what. It seems like the rest of the world is built on money.
Sure; Ill work with God on my goals… Ill keep working with God on it…
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I have mentioned to some; that my goals have to do with Wife Family House car Money. So; Im not hiding the ultimate goals.
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Therapist;
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I have the same problems I was diagnosed with 30 years ago… I still have the initial internal problems; However; the recovery part of me is doing better; Im doing better enough, that I can see myself outside the need for the 12 step groups as a complete encompassed ( all I need) place. I can step out from the 12 step groups back to real life; The problem is; I can imagine a life in the outside world but have no idea How to go from the child view of life in my heart n mind; to something real in the real world…
I don’t feel qualified for anything real in the real world; I feel like Im 6 years old. Im in my imagination; Im helpless and want to be taken care of.
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Take away the 12 step groups; I end up with nothing; Im simply sitting here in an apartment in a strange land; Im a complete stranger here… I don’t know anything else here; I know no one here in this small town. I have no connections out in town. I don’t have any relationships and no house or economic sources in town; nothing. No connection; Havent even thought about it.
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Because Ive made it through the 12 step groups; Im showing Ive gotten a lot better.. but thats under certain conditions… Meaning; Ive got my needs met; step out of the 12 step groups; and I step back into society into nothing; I know nothing.
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REACHING OUT TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD:
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This means I start working with God on literally a new life out in town… outside in the real world. OK God; Ill work on imagining something new; I havent a clue. I have no clue; and no connection… Suddenly everything takes money… I don’t fit in.
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So; Ill work with God on alignment with God concerning all of this… Amen….
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The 12 step groups are a dead end at this point; Its like going to therapy for the first time… It works for the first time but not needed for ever. At some point they throw me outside into the world because Im able to connect with the world again…
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The problem now; How; not to fit into a 12 step group; but how to fit into the world outside… How do I fit into something that seems like a place of alienation. I have no way of surviving out there; I don’t know.
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So; Ill start praying about it…
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A certain transition must occur between the 12 step groups and the outside world; However; Altho I can feel this; Im already making it through this… This is uncomfortable and a bit lonely; However; Im fine… I mean; Im making it through; this is not a problem; its a little scary… But Im making it through.
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However; When I go through this gap; And I already am; I end up outside on the street of this town; in a socially oriented concept… Meaning; the town is a stranger to me. I don’t know how to fit into it.
I have no job; no finances for a house or placement in general in this town. I don’t know where to go or where I would fit in.
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Ill keep myself in incognito; keep quite about all of this while in these meetings, and Ill secretly keep it to myself while in the 12 step groups. I quietly pray and start asking for opportunities for the outside world; to be part of it...
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