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May 1979

Meetings, Meetings, Meetings

Too happy, too sad, too glad, too mad, too busy, too tired-still, he gets to a meeting

FOR A BRIEF time in early sobriety, I attended meetings only once or twice a week. Between meetings, fear approaching panic would almost overwhelm me, and the only respite was the time I spent at meetings. I was unable to get relief from my negative emotional states, which went from hopelessness to fear to guilt to self-pity--I thought I was losing my mind. Every day, I asked for help from my Higher Power, and I would give thanks at night; the request for help was the more honest prayer, as I was certainly not grateful at that time.

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