Posted by AuntieMel on March 16, 2005, at 13:34:17
In reply to Life After Addictions, posted by mynamehere on March 14, 2005, at 17:47:01
All of what antigua said applied to me, too, except I did a few days of hospital detox just in case.
Addiction is a disease, a friend and an enemy. The addiction is telling you that you are washed up and will never get back into your career. It wants you to give up. Stress doesn't drive you to use - you use stress as an excuse to use.
Giving up drugs means *all* drugs. You can't get better if you are still putting mind altering chemicals in your body.
As for limits? One <insert drug here> is too many and a thousand is never enough. The limit for an addict is none, zero, nada, nil. Addiction doesn't go away and there is no current cure. That's why it's called 'recovering' and not 'recovered.'
Sorry if this is blunt, but step one is admitting you have a problem. These are things you need to know going in.
And - you are not a loser. The only losers in this sickness are the ones that quit trying. You don't need to mourn your past, you need to realize there is a future.
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