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Feeling:		- Ok
Gender:	Male
Age:	33
Location:	Going Into Hiatus, CA
Interests: Lifting, running, reading, journal entries, healthy eating, baseball, music writing, story writing. I am a member of SLAA, CoDa, OA, and Al Anon. I attend 5 to 6 meetings a week for the time being. I appreciate my friends more than ever, and welcome back some old ones. Unfortunately, I've had to come to grips with the fact that I really do not have any role models in my everyday life or people I can learn from. So I'm hoping to find people that I can learn from here. I was an absolute hypocrite about this site a while back thinking it was like other sites. But in all honesty, it's an incredible site with incredible people.
About Me: I'm a 33 year old Co-Dependent who's finally facing his truths. It took surrendering everything materialistic and destructive to gain everything important. What I thought was my identity, was actually prolonging the sickness. From codependency, sexual and love addiction, and overeating. It all fed off of each other. Now it is all in front of me right now. It's the most painful and humbling experience ever. I've also recently have had my younger brother move with me. He has a lot of pain and I hope to be able to help him in the right way. But not lose myself in the process. This will be a test for me and a journey for him.

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12:37 pm	- Just Friends
Yesterday	So I've heard a lot of words in OA that I have heard before as part of the addiction: Restrictor, binger, purger. But now I can add another one that made me realize that is ME! The word is overtrainer. Back in the baseball ... [More]
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Yesterday	SHit i cant sleep. But need to. But cant. But need to. Oh well. Just one more day and Im taking Friday off. Our Funding company has season tickets next to first base at Anaheim Angels Stadium and had given me tickets for the Dod... [More]

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Support Groups

Eating Disorders

I have learned to control my overeating by building strength from within. My mind had to be cleared of my unhealthy patterns in order to give myself a fighting chance.
Treatments
Overeaters Anonymous (OA) (Working / Worked) Im a recovering emotional overeater
23 Members 133 Posts

Abstinence & Celibacy

After a break up, I immediately go looking for that "Jolt" of sex or attention in order to mask the pain. I cannot do that anymore and am currently sober dealing with my emotions and not trying to mortgage myself out emotionally anymore. Have been celibate for months. Have eliminated masturbation over a month ago also.
Treatments
SLAA (Working / Worked) SLAA has been a blessing. True self gratification comes from within.
1 Member 2 Posts

Codependency

I have been a codependent my entire life. Sometimes I was the controlled, and other times I was the controller. It took my last relationship (or lack thereof) to accept the fact that I will never be a complete person unless I am honest with myself.
Treatments
12 Step Program (Working / Worked) SLAA has been an incredible place
AlAnon (Working / Worked) An extremely beneficial group. Especially to pin point our own negative behavior and acting out with an alcoholic.
CoDA (Working / Worked) Quite literally the phase that leads to all other 12 step programs in my opinion. This group deals with your upbringing.
Meditating (Working / Worked) Probably filled the one void that has made it all connect in the whole process in all honesty
Reading (Working / Worked) I've been reading article after article just arming myself with the proper knowledge in order to fight this disease head on.
Talking (Working / Worked) My therapist is my only neutral source outside of SLAA
8 Members 36 Posts