When you knew it was over for you? Drugs

[Foreigner]

1) Lost my connection with mundane, daily joys because they weren't on the level of drug highs.

2) All my friend hangouts were drug enhanced and if they weren't then we were bored.

3) Got tired of waking up feeling hung over, brain fogged, exhausted.

4) Got tired of how intense drugs made everything feel, even simple things like going to a store to buy a snack. Sometimes you just wanted it to be simple.

5) Started to talk about things like a total weirdo and blamed others for not being "advanced/evolved" enough if they didn't understand. Meanwhile I was just on drugs.

6) The "mind expansion" quality started to feel formulaic and predictable.

7) Life was pulling me in other directions that required me to not be on drugs.

8) I got really sick (unrelated) and no longer had the physical health to be high.

9) Being severely ill and facing near-death a bunch of times was its own trip. When that kind of intensity was forced on me daily against my will, I began to crave simplicity.

10) I realized the non-dual truth of existence and no longer need drugs to connect with it. The simple life works for me now.

 

[TheUltimateFixx]

Very undramatic. I woke up one morning already starting to feel the first twinges of withdrawal, been using for months by that time purely to get well and hardly even feeling my shots anymore; and just went, well bugger this for a game of soldiers.

 

[AlphaMethylPhenyl]

The simple life works for me now.

Yay for the simple life!

 

[Jen X]

I wanted to live a normal life. To not be scoring drugs or sick. Then i got diagnosed with MS so i gave up trying to quit. I am trying not to IV or overuse because i met someone last year that i love more then drugs(he don't even drink caffine). I needed a reason to straighten up and he was that reason

 

[mauve]

I just got tired of the drugs and quit. The stimulants were easy, it was the alcohol and sedatives that were hard ( both legal )

I quite alcohol as soon as I got back from rehab and saw the look on my other half when I picked up a bottle of vodka

No high is better, then coming back home to your loved one and cuddling up

 

[Jnowhere]

I really stopped drinking when the judge said"I don't want you drinking" but I might have quit when I threw up in my doctors office and almost hit my doctor with my vomit. My dad who knew my doctor was there and off to the ER My body just really said no more. My mind was more really messed up but embarrassed, funny I was more embarrassed than my dad.

 

[Jnowhere]

I just got tired of the drugs and quit. The stimulants were easy, it was the alcohol and sedatives that were hard ( both legal )

I quite alcohol as soon as I got back from rehab and saw the look on my other half when I picked up a bottle of vodka

No high is better, then coming back home to your loved one and cuddling up

Great idea, seriously. I really hope you can stay sober and not be tempted into disappointing yourself or those that love and care about you. There is no future in being a statistic. Misery only likes the company of those who are miserable themselves.
Best wishes and remember that cuddling up to a soon to be empty bottle, will only leave you empty inside and out.
Best of luck

 

[snmfmy]

The title is self explanatory...was it external circumstances? Was it somethiing of spiritual nature or your body telling you something..? Thats only for people who have stopped drugs or drastically stopped most of them
Thanks guys

When after this last withdrawal precipitated ER medical alcohol detox.

My liver showed initial signs of mild damage, which after 37 years of drinking was the first time my enzymes were ever off. And I was a 2-3 bottle of wine a day drinker for years.

My blood pressure was out of control and now required medication. And I was at least 70-80 lbs overweight.

I said fuck this. And a week later I had no desire to drink. In the last 90 days I've had one or 2 drinks a handful of times maybe 7 or 8 times. I just have no desire to drink like I did. I don't crave it. I love waking up at 7am without the need to get in my car and drive to the liquor store to start drinking.

I've lost 35 lbs, can probably get off the losartan, and feel great. I don't need gabapentin to suppress cravings like I did.

I honestly have no fucking clue WHY.

 

[Jnowhere]

When after this last withdrawal precipitated ER medical alcohol detox.

My liver showed initial signs of mild damage, which after 37 years of drinking was the first time my enzymes were ever off. And I was a 2-3 bottle of wine a day drinker for years.

My blood pressure was out of control and now required medication. And I was at least 70-80 lbs overweight.

I said fuck this. And a week later I had no desire to drink. In the last 90 days I've had one or 2 drinks a handful of times maybe 7 or 8 times. I just have no desire to drink like I did. I don't crave it. I love waking up at 7am without the need to get in my car and drive to the liquor store to start drinking.

I've lost 35 lbs, can probably get off the losartan, and feel great. I don't need gabapentin to suppress cravings like I did.

I honestly have no fucking clue WHY.

Getting up at 7am sucks, I used to that and it gets old?

 

[garygroundwork]

Looking into a mirror when on mushrooms and seeing what I had become.

Seeing a photo of me and the amount of weight loss shocked me.

Mental Health.

Even though it's not totally over I want it to be.

 

[TheUltimateFixx]

I don't need gabapentin to suppress cravings like I did.

I honestly have no fucking clue WHY.

Straightforward. Because you found out through experience that you actually now feel better and genuinely prefer drinking only occasionally than getting hammered every day.

So long as you want that heavier use for whatever reason, you're gonna crave. A craving isn't a thing that mysteriously 'happens' to you ; you do the craving by ideating about the perceived benefits of your drug. Now you don't see that benefit in heavy consumption anymore, therefore you don't feel like you 'need' it, therefore you no longer crave.

 

[Juicewrldfan]

For me it was I got tired of not being able to function and the other half is the damage it was causing my relationships and self.

I would always come out of a stimulant binge feeling disgusted with myself even tho I was just alone with porn for the last week all day every day. Felt so sickening for some reason even tho aside from the chicks with tricks it was all vanilla.

Seriously tho I would feel disgusted. Just because it was by myself friends on in looking at porn and well…

And also because the mental havoc it wreaked on me. I’d be severely suicidal for days and fortunately I usually knew it was the drugs and not actually feeling that way.

That had to change.