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Recovery The 2024 Recovery Thread

heyo guys - hope no one has been worried about me. i’ve just been living life and fully fucking immersed back into love, happiness, and content. i write music everyday, walk everyday, take my subs everyday(which has been a fucking life saver for me - it does the things i wanted kratom to do for me) & i don’t talk at my meetings anymore. i’m just in there to support and listen to everyone else in there.


love you all
 
heyo guys - hope no one has been worried about me. i’ve just been living life and fully fucking immersed back into love, happiness, and content. i write music everyday, walk everyday, take my subs everyday(which has been a fucking life saver for me - it does the things i wanted kratom to do for me) & i don’t talk at my meetings anymore. i’m just in there to support and listen to everyone else in there.


love you all

Hell yeah!!

Listening can be just as rewarding. And we'll always be here too. Keep popping off.
 
Currently at 2 weeks off any drugs at the moment. Still waiting to get dental work done after that incident happened. Scar is improving. Been eating well and training daily.
Suffering from quite bad anxiety since i've not been doing much but i'm viewing the whole thing as a lesson. Don't hang around with ropey people and don't do drugs you know are bad for you (my reaction to what happened was relapse into cocaine and opiates).

Been completely off weed too which i never normally do. But feel better for not smoking tbh. Only just got my appetite back fully and energy levels seem to be improving day by day. I've been considering which jobs i could do once i'm fully sorted. Think it's time to get back to work and sober way of living, without the usual druggy type mates/contacts.
 
Currently at 2 weeks off any drugs at the moment. Still waiting to get dental work done after that incident happened. Scar is improving. Been eating well and training daily.
Suffering from quite bad anxiety since i've not been doing much but i'm viewing the whole thing as a lesson. Don't hang around with ropey people and don't do drugs you know are bad for you (my reaction to what happened was relapse into cocaine and opiates).

Been completely off weed too which i never normally do. But feel better for not smoking tbh. Only just got my appetite back fully and energy levels seem to be improving day by day. I've been considering which jobs i could do once i'm fully sorted. Think it's time to get back to work and sober way of living, without the usual druggy type mates/contacts.

Hell yeah bro
 
Hell yeah bro

Back up 7kg and i'm looking lean and muscluar. Been eating 5 meals per day and training 6 days a week. Full on cut off all druggy contacts. Was at the dentist earlier and got first tooth fixed. All in it's going to cost £1k at least in dental bills. But fuck them those scum who did this will wind up paying the bill in court.
Also turns out they assaulted a local pensioner and stole his car. Broke his leg. He wound up in hospital and caught a blood clot in his lungs and leg. He is a local business owner and has been unable to open the shop since. Lost 10s of thousands cos of them.

I still myself am left with a permanent scar, slash above my eyebrow. Broken nose, cheek bones and needing at least 1-1.6k worth of dental treatment. And they extorted my family for money. So i dare say they are going to owe alot of money to the old chocolate shop owner and myself between the two incidents.
Should surely get a decent amount of compensation. I am claiming it's caused me PTSD too, which on top of my bipolar is really fucking me up. stopped me working and for the first month i struggled to even sleep at night for the terrow 25+ head shots and being held to ransom at knife point has caused me. I reckon betqeen both attacks they are looking at 5-7 years in jail here in the UK.

I am just glad to be getting the dental treatment. Sorted my act out from consuming stupid amounts of drugs to deal with it all. Had 2 weeks completely sober. Been training & eating like a champ. Rebuilding relationships with those who matter, dropped all the loosers who never helped my life in any way. I do feel i have made serious progress and so much more in control.
 
. . . I am just glad to be getting the dental treatment. Sorted my act out from consuming stupid amounts of drugs to deal with it all. Had 2 weeks completely sober. Been training & eating like a champ. Rebuilding relationships with those who matter, dropped all the loosers who never helped my life in any way. I do feel i have made serious progress and so much more in control.

I hope you can get better and heal and that your family can too.
What makes you tough can make you even tougher. :). WOW.

I hope that you all can get better and be healthier now.
Take care and stay well. Grow together and learn to be well and stay stronger than that.

Stay away from those gangs and their problems. Learn to be strong
without them and that you can. You are strong and will learn and be better now. Than that.

You can, you will and are able.
 
Back up 7kg and i'm looking lean and muscluar. Been eating 5 meals per day and training 6 days a week. Full on cut off all druggy contacts. Was at the dentist earlier and got first tooth fixed. All in it's going to cost £1k at least in dental bills. But fuck them those scum who did this will wind up paying the bill in court.
Also turns out they assaulted a local pensioner and stole his car. Broke his leg. He wound up in hospital and caught a blood clot in his lungs and leg. He is a local business owner and has been unable to open the shop since. Lost 10s of thousands cos of them.

I still myself am left with a permanent scar, slash above my eyebrow. Broken nose, cheek bones and needing at least 1-1.6k worth of dental treatment. And they extorted my family for money. So i dare say they are going to owe alot of money to the old chocolate shop owner and myself between the two incidents.
Should surely get a decent amount of compensation. I am claiming it's caused me PTSD too, which on top of my bipolar is really fucking me up. stopped me working and for the first month i struggled to even sleep at night for the terrow 25+ head shots and being held to ransom at knife point has caused me. I reckon betqeen both attacks they are looking at 5-7 years in jail here in the UK.

I am just glad to be getting the dental treatment. Sorted my act out from consuming stupid amounts of drugs to deal with it all. Had 2 weeks completely sober. Been training & eating like a champ. Rebuilding relationships with those who matter, dropped all the loosers who never helped my life in any way. I do feel i have made serious progress and so much more in control.
I am so glad to hear you are doing better.
If these pieces of shit had done these things here in " The Colonies", I have that term many times. LoL. They would be lucky to plea bargain for 3 times that. If the kidnapping for Ransom they would be looking at separate Federal charges possibly, which carries a life sentence and here they really mean life. But they would probably plea bargain and end up going from one prison to the next, depending on the state, priors and who the D.A. is and whether the Feds wanted a piece of them. It is sickening that they will not do real serious time, for the awful stuff they did.
Anyways It is really nice to hear you are starting to mend. I can't relate, so I can only say I really hope you recover, not only physically but psychologically as well. It seems you are doing much better. Sorry to hear about the dental damage. I am a little, ok very afraid of dentists.
On a more positive note, I really hope you can make stronger friendships with those who will be a truly positive part of your life. And also make new friends, who will not drag you down or worse.
I am relieved that you have gotten yourself to better place.
I haven't really written too you much, because I know things were going bad for you and, I guess it is the winter and my own depression over all my family, or close family, being dead has really hit me as I sit alone in my house( which I inheirented)
Anyways, I really hope you and the older gentleman, get as much justice as The UK courts allow for.
Hopefully you will stay clean, keep getting more fit, and as the British might say, avoid any ' dodgy blokes'
Well good luck, and I wish you the best.
 
Back to getting up at 6am. I wont lie i had 20mg valium upon awakening before breakfast and training weights. I feel so much more together now and on the ball. Happier and able to tackle the world. Went to dentsist yesterday and all my teeth will be fixable.

Also these bastards who did this to me given their previous will all rot in jail for 5-7 years. Mates have offered to have them snipered in jail which you guys know me. That will happen. They threatened my family and nearly killed me. It is going to come full circle. I will do everything in my powder to make them suffer.
 
hey guys hope all is well! i’m doing fantastic just diving headfirst into life - relationships, family, art & music a LOT, and spending time with nature. all has been very very well and i’m doing wonderful.


the new website design is quite nice too i’ll add :) how is everyone?
 
hey guys hope all is well! i’m doing fantastic just diving headfirst into life - relationships, family, art & music a LOT, and spending time with nature. all has been very very well and i’m doing wonderful.


the new website design is quite nice too i’ll add :) how is everyone?
It is great to hear that things are going well for you. You had a little difficulty a while back and it is wonderful to know you are doing great and are in a good place in your life; I wish the best and good luck, bro.😊
 
I wish detox was free
Detox, ime, is for stimulant and opioid addicts. Dangerous withdrawals from alcohol or benzos should be at hospital.

It doesn't seem to matter how bad your withdrawals are at detox, getting 2mg Lorazepam from them is like pulling teeth. Doesn't matter if your entire body is shaking, you're dry heaving, having panic attacks with extreme paranoia and hallucinations, total insomnia, akasithia, dyskinesia, etc. You will suffer massively at detox and probably leave early because of it. I certainly did. FUCK those cocksuckers.
 
Detox, ime, is for stimulant and opioid addicts. Dangerous withdrawals from alcohol or benzos should be at hospital.

It doesn't seem to matter how bad your withdrawals are at detox, getting 2mg Lorazepam from them is like pulling teeth. Doesn't matter if your entire body is shaking, you're dry heaving, having panic attacks with extreme paranoia and hallucinations, total insomnia, akasithia, dyskinesia, etc. You will suffer massively at detox and probably leave early because of it. I certainly did. FUCK those cocksuckers.
I've never suffered at detox from alcohol wds.... but maybe the detox in US (for profit) is different than Cananda (free/socialist?).

In the last 20 years I've been to detox 2 times for heroin, and 2 times for alcohol.

They generally give me 2 or 3 layers of drugs for alcohol detox. Librium (benzo), pentobarbital (barb), and methocarbamol (carbamate) are standard.

I've certainly never had panic attacks or hallucinations at detox, if I did, they weren't doing their job right, and the fucking shit costs thousands of dollars even with insurance here, so they better get it fucking right.

In the US if you go to the emergency room for alcohol withdrawals all they do is give you 3 days of benzos and tell you to go to detox....

they do not detox alcoholics in the hospital in the US. The only reason they would do that is if you were literally in organ failure or actively dying.
 
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I've never suffered at detox from alcohol wds.... but maybe the detox in US (for profit) is different than Cananda (free/socialist?).

In the last 20 years I've been to detox 2 times for heroin, and 2 times for alcohol.

They generally give me 2 or 3 layers of drugs for alcohol detox. Librium (benzo), pentobarbital (barb), and methocarbamol (carbamate) are standard.

I've certainly never had panic attacks or hallucinations at detox, if I did, they weren't doing their job right, and the fucking shit costs thousands of dollars even with insurance here, so they better get it fucking right.

In the US if you go to the emergency room for alcohol withdrawals all they do is give you 3 days of benzos and tell you to go to detox....

they do not detox alcoholics in the hospital in the US. The only reason they would do that is if you were literally in organ failure or actively dying.
I beg to differ, it depends on the hospital and it varies and and I usually got IV Ativan and morphine. One hospital would use IV Ativan and Dilauded. Besides all the fluids. Maybe your symptoms were not as bad. Maybe you went to detox before you were not shaking uncontrollably and unable to hold down water and weren't near death. Maybe you went because you were a little sick and nauseous. Some of us can deal with pain and suffering better than others. Maybe you didn't have DT's. and weren't in real bad shape. Maybe you never had 7 1/2 liters of fluid drained from your stomach, the record was 9 liters from the one woman tech or whatever at one hospital were I spent 2 to 3 weeks at and under went a surgical procedure to scope my throat and down to my stomach for hemorrhaging and also had a Pic line. I had real alcohol withdrawals and was admitted countless times, with no insurance, eventually I was put on Medicaid before I had money, property and assets. The one time I went for two to three weeks, they put me on Medicaid, and they wanted to put me in a nursing home for a couple of weeks after, I was 39 about to turn 40.
I never paid any bills I got, when your broke like I was then, what can they do. Besides the time I spent 2 to 3 weeks. It was usually a 2 or 3 days. So yes, they will admit you and put you into a basic detox at a hospital in the US, and without insurance, but it depends on how bad off you are. I suffered alot probably 2 times a month for over 20 years of really bad withdrawals and went to and was admitted and detoxed15 -20 times, I can handle the 5 or so days of misery, but when you can't hold fluids down and are almost having seizures and half your body is numb, they will detox you, especially when you can barely move. Also DT's are a bitch. It all depends, If your just miserable, so what. If you are really in trouble, then yes they will detox you in the hospital, it depends, I didn't go because I was sick, I went because I was in real trouble. And back then, as far as a bill goes; I would file it away in the trash. You can't get blood from a rock and detox for me was more than I'm sick, it was I am going to die. You and I differ in what we can put up with, I went to detox at the hospital because I could've died, not discomfort, I am sorry to be so harsh, but you and I differ on the level of alcoholism, fortunately after getting cirrhosis, I became allergic so it stopped, I drank till I physically couldn't. So yes they will detox you in the hospital in America. Maybe where you live they give you 3 days of benzos, but half the time nothing, except for one time in particular, I got Ativan 2mg ones and to my absolute shock a dozen 20mg oxycodones and I think mega doses of vitamin D.
 
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It's been almost two full weeks without vaping nicotine. This might be the longest voluntary abstinence in 10 years.

I'm tired of headaches, being preoccupied thinking about it, compulsive use.

I'm really hoping I can see the value in this and not succumb to the easy fix. I've done so well with hard substances, I need to really just go 100% and get off the vape and eventually drink as well.

I just operate more efficiently sober. That's really what I value most. But when the boredom sets in it's very difficult. Seemingly more difficult than other people I've talked to about it. So that's probably the main issue to work on, how to spend my time.
 
It's been almost two full weeks without vaping nicotine. This might be the longest voluntary abstinence in 10 years.

I'm tired of headaches, being preoccupied thinking about it, compulsive use.

I'm really hoping I can see the value in this and not succumb to the easy fix. I've done so well with hard substances, I need to really just go 100% and get off the vape and eventually drink as well.

I just operate more efficiently sober. That's really what I value most. But when the boredom sets in it's very difficult. Seemingly more difficult than other people I've talked to about it. So that's probably the main issue to work on, how to spend my time.
Watch stuff on the internet, endless free movies show, documentaries and stuff. It is hard when you are used to being buzzed or high. Alcohol is gone for me. Just prescriptions that now do nothing and cigarettes, which I make with tubes with filters, loose tobacco and a good machine
 
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I do like documentaries
Besides youtube, type in top documentaries or type in free no sign up documentaries. There are a number of websites and youtube has a great very long multi part ww1 in color documentary and ww2 in color there are couple different ones if you like war documentaries but there is a 5 part or 4 part ww1 in color that is incredible also a 10 or 11 part ww2 one and I bindge on docu- series type shows like air disasters. Like I said youtube has a lot and type in free no sign up(if you don't mind sighing up to free,( don't fall for free trial bullshit) there are more but top documentaries and many other sites have hundreds or more on so many topics I can't get enough and the docu series on lots of cool topic like unexplained disappearances and murders, wars, and many other things waiting to be watched free, it kills the time great, you just need to type in. I have an unlimited plan on my Samsung s23 ultra, that I keep plugged in to save the battery and so free almost endless entertainment, because like you I like documentaries and there are so many for free and many topics and many sites but youtube is great for the docu series and if have an unlimited plan you can also buy a cable that can hook up to a television or just watch on your phone, Samsung has great picture quality and like I said save your battery and plug your phone in; if you don't mind the small screen, it takes my mind off, using things I shouldn't or can't.
 
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It's been almost two full weeks without vaping nicotine. This might be the longest voluntary abstinence in 10 years.

I'm tired of headaches, being preoccupied thinking about it, compulsive use.

I'm really hoping I can see the value in this and not succumb to the easy fix. I've done so well with hard substances, I need to really just go 100% and get off the vape and eventually drink as well.

I just operate more efficiently sober. That's really what I value most. But when the boredom sets in it's very difficult. Seemingly more difficult than other people I've talked to about it. So that's probably the main issue to work on, how to spend my time.
Nicotine is an absolute cunt of a drug to quit - difficult, horrible.

When I finally managed to stop (4th attempt iirc), I remember it getting noticably easier after 3 weeks, then another huge shift after around 7 weeks.
 
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