I'm on

[Evelyn]

Smoked my last, tossed the rest away I'm on

[TAC]

Good for you, now stay close, keep your hands and feet inside the train car and buckle your seat belt.

[action]

Yes stay close Evelyn!! Glue yourself to the board :)

[sharonsiff]

Stay close, if you need to vent then vent, if you want to burst into a song because you feel happy sing. Whatever....just stay closexx

[Ladybug]

That's great Evelyn! You know we all support you! You tried to quit a few times and relapsed......so...what are you going to do different this time?

 

What's the new plan?

[sgt.barney]

 

Easy Peasy

[sharonsiff]

Evelyn....have just literally read this! ....and thought it really might help you.

 

AMP- the power of electricity

 

Being able to move on can be seen as a three part process (after an event you wish hadn't happed, you smoking again) This is the power of electricty, AMP-

 

A: Accept- in order to accept something unpleasant, it helps to get it off your chest. Expressing the emotions that the unpleasantness made you feel, as many times as needed. Bottling emotions is the worse thing you can do because it will come back and attack you and others. So you've done that about your last failed quit :)

 

M- Move on- decide when you think you have excersised your emotions enough and want to move on. Don't stop till you are ready to move on. When ready, ask yourself what you want to do now. You have two choices: stay where you are and keep the same problem alive or cut your losses and form a new plan and go forward. It is, as ever, your choice.....You announced you've started a new quit so M seems sorted :)

 

P: Plan- this is CRITICAL to moving on. You can't move on without a plan, otherwise you will just return to the same problem, with the same emotions and the same situation all over again. The plan will take you forward and out of the cycle of trying to accept something that seems unpalatable. The plan must address how you will alter your emotions as practical issues.

 

So if you have a plan already Evelyn then fabulous, if not, maybe having on might prove the key to your freedom forever?

 

Just thought of you as I read it ...think AMP :)

[comrade simba]

Check yourself into a hospital. Let your psychiatrist decide when you should think about beginning another quit. Cheerleading another  one of your quits when nothing has changed isn't support at this point, it's just ignorance at best and meanness at worst.

 

This isn't meant to be tough love or anything of the sort - it's just caring about your well being.

[Evelyn]

Comrade Simba I'm on antidepressivants and no need for hospitalasation I'm doing much better.