When one alcoholic/addict shares with another alcoholic/addict

[MajestyJo]

I struggle with fear. I fear things that haven't even happend yet, if I let myself. I realize though if I let my fear consume me then I isolate, look at the negative instead of seeing any positive. I sit in my chair and watch TV and eat and complain because I have to get up and let the dogs out for the upteenth time. If I do that, what am I doing to make a difference? What am I doing as an example to my family much less the outside world? What am I doing to myself? I am allowing myself to wither and die a little at a time. I am so grateful for my Higher Power, who I call God. I can give him these burdens, I know I have to stay sober so I can trust and realize who is really in control...it is so freeing and I stop being a burden to myself and others around me. He gets bigger to me all the time of what He can do. That is a blessing. Jeanne

Great words of wisdom that I identify with.

There are healthy fears, fears that keep me from picking up and going back to where I came from. My disease progresses along with my recovery and I know that if I picked up, I would be back where I was or worse. It would mean death for me today, because of my diabetes, which I didn't have 24 years ago.