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    Good Midnight, Insomniacs
    Good Midnight, Insomniacs
    Good Midnight, Insomniacs
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    Good Midnight, Insomniacs

    By Alma Christova

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    Good Midnight, Insomniacs is a spontaneous collage of life-writing and photographs put together in one breath and hastening to document the early stages of the authors recovery from addiction and depression. No matter who you are - a man or a woman, young or old, rich or poor, black or white, your addiction wants to take your life. Period. The Three Headed Dragon wants you dead. Alma Christovas modest self-help booklet is dedicated to intervention and addresses people who decided to conquer one of 21st centurys deadliest pandemics. As the proverbial slogan of Alcoholics Anonymous goes: You are no longer alone, it is her firm belief that in todays cyber era there is no excuse for silencing mental health issues and chronic addiction pathology, no reason for isolation and despair in the wee hours of the morning. Almas personal collection of sunrise pictures taken over the first six months of her recovery sends the symbolic message of hope for a new daybreak to fellow addicts and insomniacs. The essays are simply a continuation of her gratitude letter to The Addictions and Concurrent Disorders Centre at the Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga and depict her personal awakening as a direct result from its multifaceted support. The acquired knowledge has empowered the author beyond words (here come the pictures!) and has opened widely a new road to yet another journey of healing and discovery.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMar 26, 2012
    ISBN9781469778341
    Good Midnight, Insomniacs
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    Alma Christova

    Alma Christova holds a Ph.D. in German Studies and Culture from the University of Toronto, where she teaches. A native of Bulgaria and prior to immigrating to Canada in 1993, she has lived and worked in Bulgaria, Germany and Finland. Alma is proficient in six languages and works also as a Court Interpreter for the Ministry of the Attorney General thus sharing her extensive personal cross-cultural experience. Currently she lives in a condominium called “Papillon Place” among other free butterflies and collects sunrise pictures taken rhapsodically every morning from the balcony of her penthouse.

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      Good Midnight, Insomniacs - Alma Christova

      GOOD MIDNIGHT, INSOMNIACS:

      WAKING UP FROM DEPRESSION AND

      ADDICTION TO DISCOVERY

      ALMA CHRISTOVA, PHD

      iUniverse, Inc.

      Bloomington

      GOOD MIDNIGHT, INSOMNIACS

      WAKING UP FROM DEPRESSION AND ADDICTION TO DISCOVERY

      Copyright © 2012 by Alma Christova, PhD.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4697-7833-4 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4697-7834-1 (ebk)

      iUniverse rev. date: 03/20/2012

      Contents

      AUTHOR’S WARNING:

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      My Life Story for AA

      My ACDC Experience

      Planet Papillon

      Living On The Hyphen: Curse Or Blessing?

      Sober Love

      Eternal Emails

      CONCLUSION

      RECOMMENDATIONS and REFERENCES

      PHOTO ALBUMS

      To Ahi

      In legal terms my son embodies my untouchable prosecutor at times of crime, my all successful defense lawyer when I opted for a trial and my silent witness at sentencing. In spiritual terms, he must have been always my Higher Power but I had no clue until I finally joined Alcoholics Anonymous last July. And Ahi, thank you from the bottom of my heart for diligently executing all these jobs on my behalf PRO BONO.

      AUTHOR’S WARNING:

      My dear Reader,

      Since this is a self-published book, it is—of course—highly disorganized. Let’s think of it as a spontaneous collage of information and pictures put together in one single breath and sent to you as a snail letter (or an email, a facebook entry, a skype call) in my attempt to document the beginning of my recovery from addiction and depression. I neurotically hastened to report everything I learned and experienced in the past eight months in order to share the impact of the Day Treatment Program at the Addictions and Concurrent Disorders Centre at Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga. To tell you the truth, I think that publishing my sunrise pictures alone would be more than enough to inspire even the most depressed insomniac on earth, but since I paid iUniverse, why not let you know more things about me. So as a true insomniac, always in the wee hours of the morning, I started filing journal entries, diligent notes from my program and aftercare, some eternal emails, positive quotes of the day, references to the tones of books I have read, summaries of the meetings of the self-help groups I joined in the meantime, then more pictures etc. All in the file AAA: Alcoholic Anonymous Alma. Once I mentioned on Facebook that I joined AA, I immediately got a lot of suggestions what Triple A could stand for. I am sure my reader will come up with many more, funnier and optimistic or pessimistic. I would love to hear them from you for my collection. I so much wanted to have an AAA tattoo on my right shoulder and a small butterfly on my left shoulder. Never got the time to do it, believe it or not, but kept buying temporary tattoos from the Dollarama and always had them on. My friend AA34—a gentleman with at least 100 real tattoos—keeps making fun of me that I don’t have the guts for a real one.

      Things continued to happen every single day and my AAA file started piling up considerably. Christmas—my internal deadline—was approaching fast and I found myself having written much more than I planned back in August 2011. I obviously talk a lot and one has to be brutal to shut me up. If I kept describing the daily events it would have taken us to infinity. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing once said: My dear friend, I am sending you a long letter because I don’t have the time to write you a short one. Hahahaaa. It’s so true. My next booklet will be much more concise, I promise. This one is rather a reanimation breath of someone who almost died, but then (for SOME reason) was granted a life-rebirth-type of breath and had this crucial vital grasp of air and so was enabled to remain alive for the time being. Something like this. I hope you know what I mean because I don’t know the term for this type of breath—I am sure I can ask a specialist of course and I will keep you posted. This breath I couldn’t refuse—it meant staying alive. Now that Good Midnight, Insomniacs is on your screen, I can readily share with you that my next project is a sitcom entitled SOBER CHAOS and features my most precious AA characters and I dare to say that it is going to be FUNNY!! And it will supply fame and money. In order to protect her anonymity and to give her some space, I deliberately excluded my one and only best friend and sober sister AA01 from this booklet although she plays an enormous part

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