Addiction and Regrets

[weekend addiction]

Addiction by definition leads to dysfunctional behavior. If you pay all your bills and cause no harm to anyone else then you are a "functional addict" and aren't addicted on the level that most people get. Its when you start fucking up that you become a real "addict." I have been both. I have worked 80 hr weeks in the depth of a serious alcohol\cannabis\opiate\amphetamine addiction and been unemployed and unmotivated while totally sober at times.

Functional addiction is limited. It can last months or years or most of your life. At the end of the day most people have to pay the piper and compromise their morals\values even if just a little bit.

 

[steewith2ees]

I have worked 80 hr weeks in the depth of a serious alcohol\cannabis\opiate\amphetamine addiction and been unemployed and unmotivated while totally sober at times.

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I try to look upon my 20 year dependence to prescription painkillers in a positive way (dependence/addiction....whats the difference IRL...). If i can quit a massive prescription drug dependence cold turkey and come out the other side after 7-8 months of the most horrendous withdrawl then i can accomplish anything in my eyes. I know now that no matter what life throws at me I can overcome it and also that nothing will ever be as bad or as difficult to get through as that was. Its made me a stronger person..

Bad things in life happen to everyone, its what you take from it and how you move forward that defines you as a person and builds mental toughness and character. The past is the past.. You just have to hold your head up and move forward.....