Eryximachus
Bluelighter
This is exactly how I have been feeling much of the past 14 months I've been clean. I'm 45, in the midst of buying a business that will net me a lot of money. My concentration and cognition has improved after a harrowing recovery, but my drive just isn't there. No matter how bad things got in the past, I could just bury myself if in work, but I don't really care.What do I do when nothing works anymore? The drugs don’t work any more to stop the physical pain and depression. I just went on the dream vacation of a lifetime and it didn’t make me feel better. Getting dragged on a other dream vacation in a week by my wife too and dreading that.
My hobbies I had have faded with interest. I am losing passion even towards being a workaholic.
If I wasn’t married I swear to fuck I would just blow my head off right now. But she would be destroyed for the rest of her life.
Drugs, sports, travel, work accomplishments….they all used to work when one or the other didn’t to sustain my motivation to keep living.
None of them work anymore.
I am considering descending into fentanyl (currently just do prescription pills). I really don’t know what else to do and fentanyl will do to me what I can’t do to myself.
Creating new life, especially human life is the most evil thing a human being can do. I know some of you have kids but think about what you are doing. Nobody asked my permission to bring me into this shit. My survival instinct and social bond with my spouse won’t let me escape this shit.
Creating new life and having kids is absolutely a sick evil and selfish thing to do.
No wife, no kids. If I had an extra $1 million, I'd probably retire someplace cheap outside of the US. But even that, I'm not sure.
I guess this is why people relapse. The reality is sobriety really sucks. About the only thing that keeps me going is the thought that it gets better.