What is your intense craving alter?

[Anontoall29]

Hi all
For those whom have so far beaten their addictions (mine is meth) when you have the desire/need/intense craving to get more/relapse - what stops you? What distracts you? What pulls you through turning back to the evil?
Thanks.

 

[phactor]

Lots of different methods but ultimately:

1. Realizing, acknowledging and believing that with time the cravings pass

2. Realizing, acknowledging and believing that using will not make the situation better

 

[BlueSaffron]

Lately when i want to use i just picture myself sitting there high in an altered reality that doesnt even exist, and it just seems really sad to me. Like looking at an alcoholic homeless person sitting in the gutter drunk out of their mind. As much as i might want to feel the relief of getting high, i cant get that image out of my mind:me sitting there alone, stoned, thinking everythings better when its really not. Its like the saddest image in the world to me right now, and its keeping me sober.

 

[P.o.T.u.S]

i have a weight bench in my house so i go work out and by the time im done im to tired to get up and acquire said drug i was seeking. tryin to break my psychological addiction with my own body its cheap and always around.so far so good but when im out with friends and they have drugs around is the hardest time because i either have to leave or man up and sometimes im not very manly

 

[Azure Cloud]

This thread is going to be incredibly helpful to a lot of people, me included. Thank you anontoall!

 

[PriestTheyCalledHim]

Lots of different methods but ultimately:

1. Realizing, acknowledging and believing that with time the cravings pass

2. Realizing, acknowledging and believing that using will not make the situation better

I've done this as well and it works.

When I've been in bars or at events like weddings where people are drinking a lot I just tell myself that I am choosing not to drink at all this moment, and I just drink water instead.

I also tend not to stay long in environments, or always go to social events where I know people will be drinking and using drugs.

 

[Anontoall29]

I have written a list of things I want to get done/ways to keep busy and distract. I went through a whole heap of photos from my past (before meth) and I remembered how much happier I was. How easy getting up in the morning was as I was healthy. I am going to create a little albulm on my phone of the non meth me that were happy times to remember that off the gear is better and happier always