Narcotics Anonymous Basic Text Chapter 1 Who Is An Addict

[@CharlesKellner-w3m]

I'm here because my sponsor prescribed me the readings 9:53pm

[@AngelaStrong-v9v]

I am a newcomer play I've been around for a long time I'm ready to move forward

[@RR_DM]

I'm trying to cut back drastically on drinking, please pray for my success to overcome this vice

[@ax3man13]

I wish you well but unfortunately that was all I wanted to do with my addiction, & like many other addicts, I was never successful & only succeeded when I admitted I am powerless over drugs & alcohol. That one is too many & a million is never enough. It took me over a year to accept that I can’t be someone that only gets high once a week or twice a week or whatever amount I’d be happy with being limited to

[@NatashaEllis-tf8vd]

🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@drjerry5389]

Im praying for you! I started self-medicating with alcohol against anxiety. depression and panic attacks. I stopped drinking after 2 years drinking from when I was 20 to 22. I had a few good years sober but my mental health problem increase so I became a "Triathlon athlete addict" and pushed myself to the limit to get rid of my anxiety. Finally I went to a psychiatrist and told about my previous addiction to Alcohol in my 30s and was prescribed Xanax, zopiclone and other addictive substances. Now Im 50 and try to lower and eventually get rid of the medications but my anxiety and depressions are back again. So pray for me as well. I recently moved to a small village in the vast wilderness of northern Sweden and noticed they have NA meetings here and I believe Im gonna need to take all the medications away and start going to meetings. I heard so much negative about AA and NA and how some experiences it like a "cult" but I rather have a somewhat normal life in a "cult" than increase my addictiveness.

[@drjerry5389]

​@@ax3man13 As I mentioned, my addiction hasn’t been about getting 'high' but about managing my panic attacks, depression, and anxiety. For three years, I used alcohol to self-medicate, but I eventually quit drinking. However, I still struggle with anxiety and depression. I used to go to the gym and exercise for 2-3 hours a day just to keep the panic attacks and depression at bay, but I became suicidal when I had to stop exercising due to back problems. That’s when I finally went to a psychiatrist. We tried every non-addictive medication and therapy, but the only things that helped were addictive ones like Xanax. Now, after 15 years, those medications have stopped working, and I started buying painkillers, sedatives, and a legal drug called Kratom 2 years ago. I’ve had enough and I know I’m an addict, but I’m terrified of being stuck in my apartment with all these mental health issues again. I’m just wondering if anyone else has dealt with similar problems. We have NA meetings here in my small village in Sweden, and I’ve planned to go several times but keep putting it off. My life feels unbearable as it is now, so I’m desperate for a change.

[@peterpoutch574]

Your right whete your supposed to be,and don't let not been clean prevent your walking through NA,s doors it's all about having that desire.some spirit we humans possess if we just get vulnerable woooosshh

[@otheirony618]

So who else is here cause their sponsor assigned the reading.

[@sosa9694]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 nah for real

[@laurenhowell3934]

Me too haha.

[@Octobersbullcrap]

Me to bro😭

[@briannaball6476]

😂✋🏼

[@Stokeladincheshire]

Me

[@JessicaKanin]

I'm here because I enjoy these videos...RIP other deceased "recovering addicts"... May you float thru the heavens....

[@kencress3665]

I have been at attic for a long time, indisputable , still go on using and abusing people places and things 2 days clean and sober my head's on the pill I'm about to fall asleep I'll have the start of three days when I awake I can do this through Christ who strengthens me.. I am now a member of Na willing open-minded ready for a new experience

[@chelseaaustin3330]

Thank you for posting this. I have read chapter one multiple times and felt like it just wasn’t absorbing. This is so helpful 🙏🏻

[@Powerfullpepper]

I have so much gratitude Narcotics Anonymous. The tools for recovery are numerous.

[@Christina-rq3ed]

Hi my name is Christina and I'm an addict,I'm taking my first step here which is admitting that I'm an addict.

[@AdDiCtEd_To_ThE_tRaUmA]

This has been more helpful than you could imagine. Reading along, taking notes, finally retaining information that I've read through so many times on my own. Thank you❤ 🙏

[@sarnolds1]

Thank you for having this available

[@bryansmith3009]

Keep coming back!!!!

[@paulsullivan2228]

I’m here because I’m the luckiest mfr in the world. Thank you NA

[@maggie42069]

Thank you so much for posting this!! My sponsor has me reading this 30 days in a row, and it's so much easier to absorb the information by listening to it than reading it. Thank you!! 💚

[@WaiLinDot]

Thank you for your service!

[@GreenninjaDAWN]

Thank you for this

[@alanstewartweir7317]

Thanks for putting this up come in handy

[@djbond6241]

REMEMBER ADDICTION CAN BE TO MORE THAN JUST ALCOHOL, DRUGS, GAMBLING, SEX ,PORNOGRAPHY, ..... IT DEPENDS ON HOW HONEST YOU ARE WITH YOURSELF ABOUT ALL YOUR (** ADDICTIONS**)! WHAT ARE YOU USING TODAY TO ESCAPE YOUR PAIN, YOUR FEELINGS, YOUR PROBLEMS??? THE TRUTH .... SETS YOU FREE...❤❤❤❤

[@joshsmith4512]

You assume that I use drugs and other people use drugs to escape pain I use drugs to go to work I use drugs for energy I use drugs to escape physical pain as I'm a very old addict. I've been using drugs on and off for 30 years. There is no other reason outside of self-medication to get through a day at work to put to not feel like s***there is no deep emotional scars of abuse or any of that nonsense only that I do not want to feel like my fifty-year-old body feels. Get it. My wife is on my ass about going back to this stupid s*** so I'm browsing these channels and I see it's still stupid s*** about emotional pain in about feelings does not f******work but I will pretend to save my marrige

[@WaiLinDot]

As someone with 10 months clean of drugs but still suffers from a crippling gambling addiction, I needed to hear this.

[@GoodgirlzrockNone-e7x]

Hello my name is Christina and I'm an addict.

[@marilizeblignaut2804]

Is this the Blue book?

[@bryansmith3009]

Yup yup I just found out recently its called the basic text

[@canadalandinmichaelolsen802]

Here for prayer thx much help

[@AshleyMexi-ft5vs]

So I'm going to sleep at the Regions cause it's lit up and I did not feel comfortable at the dollar tree

[@CarlWinds]

Carl W. started in Jersey City,NJ 1976A.D./ stopped in Chicago,IL 2017A.D.

[@BrandonBoseman-fh6fc]

Thank you

[@AshleyMexi-ft5vs]

And some abuse the Miranda rights as a weapon of choice but yet they aren't wearing a city nor a county badge. TWO POINT FIVES

[@RhondaThomas-q6q]

Im so grateful for God, Jesus Christ My Sponsor, And The Rooms Of Narcotics Anonymous..

[@AshleyMexi-ft5vs]

BRUH IF SOMEONE IS CONSIDERING GOING ON THE FORCE OR SQUAD OR EMBEZZLING CREWS WAITING FOR A MARK TO PROVE THEMSELVES UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND LACK OF LOYALTY TO THE BIGGER PICTURE AND PRIORITYS

[@vallyb6607]

AA was actually founded on Christianity, I am not sure if NA was, however, I have heard in the rooms that you can use anything as a Higher Power and I can not disagree more. A door knob can not do for me what Jesus has done for me! Jesus, God the Son the Son of God, died, and spilled His precious blood, on the cross to pay the price for our sins. He was buried and on the third day rose from the dead just like the scriptures said He would. Salvation is a gift, please accept it now if you haven't already by BELIEVING in what Jesus did for us. Jesus is also here for us through the small things and the big things in life. I have never felt a better high than I felt when I chased the rooms, but ultimately it came from God and there is only one true God.

[@momoboolman8820]

Thank you!!!!

[@יהושועאוחנה-נ5ט]

Change the frequency in which you are used to thinking and then you will actually change your life from bad to good from being an animal with an ancient and old and unsupervised and undeveloped mind that bought many prejudices from the past to being a rebellious person who breaks all the conventions of thinking accepted by our ancestors to being a thinker on your own with a new intelligent mind Modern is prosperous and successful

[@AshleyMexi-ft5vs]

Bro it's a gimmick and some earn rewards or goodies for getting some ppl high or intoxicated or strung out

[@ANDRE-sp2mi]

🙏🙏🙏 Thank God I have overcome the world 🗺 I am greatful to be healthy and grateful to honor my soon to be Queen 👑 And family. Isaiah 54 Genesis 15. Freedom from elementary principles of the world 🗺

[@DonaldHarrington-tr4qw]

I've never done hard drugs but they smoked them around me when I was a kid

[@kaylastewart4150]

Any sponsers out there??

[@EricCampbellUAV]

my enemy’s friend is my enemy

[@sanaa0126]

Thnx

[@DJSFROMVENUSDJSFROMMARS]

Dr.JEKLE AND MR HYDE IN DA CHAT

[@kim-wx5ow]

Detoxing sucks!!! Day 3 with sponsors help

[@RhondaThomas-q6q]

Congratulations!! 1 day at a time.. And don't use matter what.. God Bless You

[@itsmieshia8854]

❤

[@KristenMercier-mc7rv]

I'm looking for a sponsor someone to help me through my recovery been sober since 12/28/24

[@Jacobdylankraft-2525]

Hang in there! This program works!

[@dobelEXP]

That date haven't happened yet?

[@AshleyBronson-yr4gr]

DUE TO KEITH LAW AND KENNETH CHARLES ORLANDI

[@Victoria-i5p]

The sadness Now Feeling your desperation dm

[@bobera21000]

Whats with the random words in the comments

[@BB-oy6zz]

Listen to this first chapter. Just for shits and giggles you’ll know it is me

[@AlexandraAulino-oc4nd]

58th roundup

[@kenJackson-w5d]

😂 I'm here because I hate to read

[@dobelEXP]

Same. I'm reading commits while listening.

[@Add_Account485]

" SEEMINGLY " hostile world?? It IS HOSTILE.. NOT "SEEMINGLY

[@Elagto_video_Games]

Great cult video Thank you No thanks NA/AA are a cult ❤

[@brentderevolutionary]

Meeeee

[@AshleyMexi-ft5vs]

DUDE. GUYS. ADDICTS. CONSUMERS. ATTACKERS AND DISCRIMINATORS

[@jannatulnayeem3010]

I believe this slogan "let go and let god"....🫶🤲❣️

[@milotheworldsmostsleepyfer6040]

thank you