I tried to hook up with skin diamond before she was a porn star. Didn’t go that way But i tried. 

As others have stated, here are my few accomplishments that to this day, make me proud

at age 16, became a Christian despite my parents being atheists, etc

21 years old – converted to the LDS Church aka the Mormons :) Got married, became very active in the church, had a calling to teach Sunday School, and even spent a little time as a Stake Missionary :)

But then everything fell apart in my life and even through that time, in the darkness, the light still shined bright

Overcame a very long and hard struggle with opiates – Vicodin, Oxycontin, Perocet, and Morphine.  Lost a ton of weight through that, not a good way to do it, but still was proud of that accomplishment.  Even though it did some major damage to my body, I am surprised that I have even made it to age 39 and once I reach 40 on 1-1-17, that will be a huge milestone.  While some may wonder how I overcame this, it was through the use and still is to this day with Suboxone.  Was able to get my back issues/chronic pain issues under control through medicine – Lyrica and even the Suboxone helps nicely too

Remarried at age 30 and still married 9 years later, so for me, that is a HUGE accomplishment because I was a bit of a man whore and an asshole, excuse my language, during my first marriage

Wrote some stuff during the addiction/dependence period that I had liked and have posted and made a new thread for it as well here https://www.faygoluvers.net/v5/…..e/#p153925

My wife and I bought a house a few years ago.  While its nothing more than a mobile home, its our first home together and so much better than living in apartments.  Here is the album I created when we first moved in after we bought the place – 

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Honestly, losing my faith was another great thing that happened to me as well.  Why?  Because it made me think back to what caused me to believe in the first place and re-examine everything and in doing so, a ton of questions I had have been answered and slowly, but surely, am making my way back to Christ through The Book of Mormon, D&C, The Bible, etc and hopefully soon will become active once again in the LDS Church so that one day, I can make it over to the Detroit Temple to receive my endowments and make the covenants with Christ

and most of all, one of the most amazing accomplishments I could ever have and receive is the love from my wife and that she stood by me through the darkest and most trying times of my life – Opioid addiction/dependence

Reel Sikk said
I haven’t done much with my life that I would say are crowning accomplishments but I guess getting over my massive depression/Suicide thoughts when I was with this abusive ass chick, marrying my wife, and doing six years in the Army are the things that I’m most proud of.

Id say that those are indeed crowning accomplishments, because you are still here ya know.  Suicidal thoughts/massive depression is never, ever fun and its awesome that you are still here to live yet another day – that is truly a blessing.

It may not be much or help that much, but one thing that kinda shook me up a bit, when I was going through the same – suicidal thoughts/depression due to my bi-polar, and it does sound funny, but it was a Good Charlotte track – Hold On.  Not the song itself, but the video is powerful and at least for me, when I see it, sometimes depending if I am either having extreme highs or those extreme lows, I break down because all the memories of the past flood my mind, but sometimes its good to have a good cry to get things out of you