Now being a 3 year member. I want to say what I wish I would have read when I first came to this page. It does get better with hard work... nearly 3 years now read my old posts from way back when. I was scared, depressed, Couldn't hardly leave my room, alcoholic, addict, panic attacks, self injury.... what a train wreck! I didn't know anything about myself. Just a scared kid. Victim of child abuse, bullying, and addiction. I want people to know it can get better! I am down to one fear that can cause a panic attack, and that's thinking about my own mortality, and I don't mind it, it motivates me to move forward. I have no more social anxiety, I can stand on my own two feet... I am sober, and pretty much stable as stable as I want my life to be... It took three years! AA and NA Meetings, 3 overdoses that sent me to the ER, 2 DWI's, Many different Therapist each one for several months at a time! a lot of courage, a lot of hard work at facing fears and mostly learning who I was and being okay with it. I must have seen 8 therapist... and in the very low points some meds... Today I can make and keep friends if I want too, I know longer need AA or NA I don't crave that stuff because I am okay being in my mind... I play with my dog, I build hot rods, I race cars, I am employed, I do whatever I want... I have come a long way from a kid who literally thought he was going to piss himself if someone stood behind him in the gas station... I don't know how it worked but I never stopped seeking help and I took bits and pieces from every therapist, from sponecers in AA and NA from friends when I finally made some, and from this website! read my posts I sound like a unstable person ready to give up or one that had given up.... I just wanted to say it gets better! Never stop seeking help and change! Thanks to everyone at PC who helped as well.. Three years guys it's been a long bumpy ride!
love you all so much and hugs to those just coming in. It does improve don't let anyone ever tell you it can't.... simply not true!

Thanks for posting! There is so much depression on this site and not so many success stories - when there is a lot of successful people out there. I am also enjoying being stable, its taken a lot of work but life is worth living

Originally Posted by Supanova

Thanks for posting! There is so much depression on this site and not so many success stories - when there is a lot of successful people out there. I am also enjoying being stable, its taken a lot of work but life is worth living

Sometimes I found it good to step back from the site, I would get to wrapped up in it... but overall it did help. It gave me a great place to express things that needed to come out with out fear of judgement... and later it helped me learn how to talk with people again I was completely isolated for almost two years. this site saved my life.... thing is people don't normally take the time to post the positive because they have moved on... I figured that out along the way... I think more people should share there stories from little break through's all the way up to major ones!

Glad you are doing well Supernova!

[gma45]

fourwalls thanks for the post. I have to agree it is nice to hear the positive stuff once in a while. I am guilty of just kinda drifting away from here when I started to feel better. That is one reason why I am back some of the people here that saw me through the darkness are no longer with us, so I decided I better show up and try and give some support to others too, because without this place I don't know where I would be. Most of the time I have a hard time expressing myself so I am diffidently a work in progress but hopefully I can just be here like Leed and the rest were here for me. I wish you the best.

[Gus1234U]

one nice thing people can do, who don't want to read penny dreadfuls all day, is post encouraging things for the newcomers, and answer their questions, tutor them on the site,, it's very rewarding~

[avlady]

Fourwalls congradulations!!

[Fuzzybear]

(((((((( fourwalls )))))))
Congrats

[Thorn Bird]

That is a very uplifting and positive post and I wish you continued improvement and happiness

Wonderful news! I wish you continued success and happiness!