HELL ON HIGH HEELS

[Guest clearleeraines]

I dunno how to do it, set up a survey for our members or where to put it so . . . HELP!

I wanna know how many peeps here have a drug/alcohol problem or recovering.

Ya know, simple yes or no survey.

i think the numbers are extremely high & I am curious. Of course it's anonymous right! prolly been done m sure SO . . . . . Thanx Clear

[MaryEllen]

You could set one up in this forum in the form of a poll.

MaryEllen

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[Guest clearleeraines]

poll , set-up hummm . . . I don't know how! poop

[Guest]

I usually use my dunb blonde cell phone, so it's been a long time since I started one. If memory serves, it has to be done from full version not mobile version. The menu is in the full composition of new topic, not like a fast reply. I don't remember much else. Sorry not more help.

[VickySGV]

You might make it easy on yourself in one way, go into the addiction forums and simply count the number of us who post there and put our hands up (so to speak) at the meeting opener where a leader asks "are there any other <addicts> here?" We have posted our stories in here in a whole passel of cases, I know mine is there. That is the best way I can see, and it will give you even more info on how we have done it that may help you!!

[Guest]

I have my stuff in my blogs too. My PM door is open too, though I am sometimes flaky about answering.

I came into AA in 1992. I wish I could say I was clean and sober the whole time. But alas, I'm a re-tread. I'm in my forth year come January. Hug. JodyAnn

[Charlize]

yes

[Guest DebbieB]

Yes

I got clean in 1980 at 24 years old, so I have 35 years clean and sober.

I still attend AA & NA meetings and help others when i can.

I started the addiction when I was 14. I had just learned I had a bass voice, which was like a death sentence for me.

I thought that meant I could never successfully transition, because I had waited too long.

I usually combined drugs like 1/2 pint of brandy, 1/2 oz of pot, antihistamines (pot gave me hay fever).

Later I was misdiagnosed with Epilepsy (actually detox), and was adding 40 mg of Valium to the cocktail.

I regularly blacked out and was told by my friends that I was a bit of a very *friendly* person, usually found in the coat room with my head between someone's legs (both women and men).

Other times I turned into a "pregnant dog" and made cutting remarks that women make to emasculate men, and would end up having everyone in the place ready to kill me and anyone I came in with. Fortunately, my friends were big, 6'2" up to 6'7", and they protected me (because I had a talent for matching them up with the available girls, who trusted me.

I went to my first AA meetings in 1977 and my first NA meetings in 1978, and became a "90 day wonder" getting 90 days but not making it to 6 months, until 1980 when I had my last drink and other drugs on the same night.

The most important thing was that I was able to tell my sponsor that I wanted to be a girl. He didn't know what to do about it, but he at least listened, which was more than my previous psychologists and therapists had done.

Eventually, one of my own sponsees took me through the steps again and he seemed to have a remarkable understanding, encouraging me to write Debbie's first inventory, which I could only write and share when I was fully dressed and made-up like a girl. The result was that I went to see a therapist with gender issues experience who helped me on the path to transition.