When you do service

[irisblue]

Do you ever 'feel' your disease slowing down? The push ups in the parking lot seem a bit more weak then when I don't do service. I feel a bit more stronger then.

[Break time]

1. If by service

You mean attending meetings and helping others through your experience strength and hope it does help a lot in keeping your strength up and your resistance higher..I personally find that if I feel better about myself and am stronger and more able to help which in turn adds to my strengths...

[irisblue]

2. Welcome to DU and the group.

I think of service in terms of both a recovery group, like leading or being a speaker to an H&I group, or even talking to cops or medical groups; even offering a meeting list to the chemically enhanced panhandler @ the gas station when you give a bottle of water in the 85 degree day.

[Stuart G]

3. Yes, service has many meanings..

Sometimes, just going to a meeting is .."service"..Lots of other ideas but they involve helping others..and I know that doing so, gets me out of my head,,,which is good...being in the head is indeed a place I dread..