Phoenix - Are you saying you had the full range of feelings and emotions when you were using, that you have today? Depression seems to run in meth addicts. I was just as depressed as anyone could be, and yes it was real. I had a good reason for being depressed, I was a meth addict! I believe most of us become addicts in general to deaden our feelings, and it seem to work very well for many of us.

Phoenix wrote:
I sure liked what you said Carol about identifying what we are feeling and putting names on them. There are neat little charts that help folks out with "feeling" words.

......Maybe you can share one of those charts with us, so people can use it when trying to put a name to a feeling. Carol