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The Recovery Tweets

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People – sorry -tweeple have been finding all sorts of uses for Twitter – live tweets from conferences, on-the-spot reporting from cell phones, group collaboration and even a webinar in 10 tweets, not to mention serious micro-blogging. You can tweet tweeple with common interests by using this format – #recovery, or searching at Twemes, and pick from many groups to join or form a new one (Twibes). You can search for tweeple to follow based on their stated interests (Twellow) and have the equivalent of a chat room using the private message feature. The best way to use the platform is not through the website but through a desktop client like Twhirl, Tweetdeck or Seesmic. You can schedule posting tweets through Tweetlater and add pictures through Twitpic. That’s just a start – twitter applications keep multiplying, and there seems no end of perfectly silly names for them.

Here are a few thoughts about recovery from depression.

  • In early recovery, I tried to forgive myself for the childhood harm I never caused.

  • Why so hard to say honest & feeling words, why so many bad-tasting bitter ones, so many sugary & false?

  • If I could watch my recovery from a distance, I’d see a reaching hungry shadow at my back slowly disappearing.

  • Real depressed men want recovery by changing partners, cities, jobs but always stare at the same mirrored face.

  • Recovery is the small seed in winter that compresses all life in a tiny space & waits for the spring unfolding.

  • If depression is Hell and recovery Purgatory, I’m sure not stopping there. Something’s up ahead.

  • It’s a mystery. Depressed, I hid rage, fear, despair & fought each one in turn. In recovery, they vanished! How?

  • Recovery like conversion sends waves of new self-belief, meaning & purpose crashing through everything.

  • Recovery from depression begins with determination & a quiet stirring of imagination. You will do it.

  • Recovering by medication alone stops symptoms, recovery from within opens life and the future.

  • Now I can hear what people say to me and respond to who they are. Amazement makes me verbal once again.

  • Recovery is a forecast of great weather amid storms of mild air and still broken blue skies.

  • Recovery shocks me with unexpected laughter at the oddest times – beats the opposite.

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