It was an interesting day at Inpatient. We lost three cast members and were introduced to the three new replacements. It's sort of like when the cast over on SNL changes between seasons. I've been promoted to the full-time cast. By virtue of my age, I am now one of the oldest people in the room.
All kidding aside, it was nice to see three people get to move on to their next phase of treatment. All of them were/are lovely people and made me feel welcome within the group when I first got there. I will do my best to make the three newbies feel the same way.
There really wasn't a topic for today, as Iggy was more concerned with those departing. You can tell he cares about each of us. He got a little misty...even though two members that were leaving gave him an enormous amount of jabs and general B.S. (ALL IN GOOD FUN!)
We did have a session, mind you. Iggy openly admitted he was stealing part of the lesson from a NAMI course he is also involved with. Stef will love hearing a bit about that later.
It more or less boiled down to not being locked into the internal thought process of our addictions. We are more than "that". Yes, we are flawed in our own ways... but it shouldn't be the main focus of our interactions with other people. Some of the group disagreed stating that meetings with other users/abusers helped them with their own problems. I mentally sided with those comments. But I also got where Iggy was coming from in the fact that there's more to all of us. We have thoughts/ideas/dreams/feelings/etc. that are far more important than harping on our substance abuse... if that makes any sense whatsoever.
A chocolate cake arrived from a restaurant Stef keeps telling me we have to go to for breakfast. So, we all had a piece of cake and wished our departing members well. Come Monday... it's a brand new show with a slightly different cast. This should be fun. :-)
And in keeping with the SNL analogy...
Goodnight and have a pleasant tomorrow. ;-)
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