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Addiction & Recovery

Taverner

(55,476 posts) Mon Jun 24, 2013, 02:23 PM Jun 2013

An unpleasant outcome from sobriety: You find you have all this pain [View all]

Physical pain, yes, but I was expecting that. Herniated discs can hurt.

But the emotional pain - all of it comes flooding back, as if someone just blew up Hoover Dam...

And the slightest thing will remind you of it.

Not complaining, just observing

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An unpleasant outcome from sobriety: You find you have all this pain [View all] Taverner Jun 2013 OP

"In our sleep, pscot Jun 2013 #1

Was that Aeschylus? Taverner Jun 2013 #3

Yes pscot Jun 2013 #5

That's where I remember it from Taverner Jun 2013 #6

Taverner. Bertha Venation Jun 2013 #2

Re: Emotional pain charin Jun 2013 #4

One day at a time.. it's the way we get through life. mountain grammy Jun 2013 #7