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Aaaaaaargh


Why have i surrounded myself with crazy people? Then an even better question, why do i then expect these crazy people to behave normally? Whose the craziest, them or me?



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Sending understanding hugs to you. ((((((el-cee-))))))



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Thanks calmlady, wish i was a calm lady lol, ive got a friend who keeps showing me her crazy then i forget then i see her crazy then i react because i forgot shes crazy lol, so whose the crazy one? Definately me!!!

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Hahaha. I hear you!

So you know the film 'Being There'? Peter Sellers. Your post made me think of when he walked into the water. Poor chap was mentally ill but the people around him didn't know. So they took what he said and did at face value. He was crazy though. A lovely gentle film.

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It should say - do you know. Not so you know.

Am on phone and cant edit post


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(LC)) I have a niece just like that. She gave e a plaque recently that stated:
" I go from normal to insane in 1.5 seconds" and I thought I was recovered. :)

It is great we have a supportive group to confide in and tools to help with progress not perfection.
Nice to hear from you.

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I can relate! I think "is everyone around me crazy?"

And then realize that they are, and I invited them

I think that puts me up a notch on the crazy scale ;)



-- Edited by sarahGee on Wednesday 19th of October 2016 10:52:24 AM

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I can relate as well.......I will say that I have grown just enough in recovery to set time limits on how much crazy I can deal with now. We grow and we change and thank goodness for that. I have also come to believe and accept that everyone has a bit of crazy in them. I so work to focus on what's working vs. what's not working. There are some in my family that when I am with them, I am in the perpetual mindset of, "Bless Them, Change Me....." over and over and over again.

All this is happening in my brain while I try to keep my face unchanged because it often says in expressions what's going on in my mind!!

(((Hugs))) - there was a program many, many years ago or maybe a magazine - it was titled, "It's a mad, mad, mad, world..." - I am grateful to now realize I am not alone in my craziness!

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Love this  post and it reminds me of so much recovery of which I am grateful and so much humor and humility in recovery that marked this progression.  Aaaaaaaargh for me is a struggle cheer and it says I'm not getting it!! or Don't Get it!! and what is important is that "I" person because "I" am responsible for what goes on in my life whether I am with others or alone.  I am so appreciative for my Sponsors and my counselors who carried the mirrors which reflected me back at me so I could clearly see what needed to be changed in    ME.  Once I knew....and knew that I knew I could make progressive changes...there are no perfect ones.  Getting to know the one person I had lived my entire life with and knew nothing about    ...ME!!    was huge and still is.   Thank you everyone who led me thru the maze.   ((((hugs)))) confuse



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