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Analogy for opiate addiction

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Roxi808

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I wanted to share a good analogy for opiate addiction that I came up with...

It's like a hot bath...wow it feels sooo good when you first get in. Then you've been in a while and the water starts to get colder and it's comfortable but it doesn't feel as good anymore.

Then you realize you have to drain the water and get out...oh so uncomfortable! So you either fill it back up or just stay wet and cold and uncomfortable until your skin dries...once your skin dries you are back to feeling good, normal, and can get in with your life...or you can keep getting back in and filling it up...and if you fill it too far you will drown...

I'm going through some wds right now and just get that uncomfortable, clammy, exposed feeling...reminded me of getting out of a hot bath...
 
Roxi808 said:
I wanted to share a good analogy for opiate addiction that I came up with...

It's like a hot bath...wow it feels sooo good when you first get in. Then you've been in a while and the water starts to get colder and it's comfortable but it doesn't feel as good anymore.

Then you realize you have to drain the water and get out...oh so uncomfortable! So you either fill it back up or just stay wet and cold and uncomfortable until your skin dries...once your skin dries you are back to feeling good, normal, and can get in with your life...or you can keep getting back in and filling it up...and if you fill it too far you will drown...

I'm going through some wds right now and just get that uncomfortable, clammy, exposed feeling...reminded me of getting out of a hot bath...
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bro this ^ makes sense. you should let the bath just drain man. it only goes downhill if ya keep filling it up.
 
I can see you are motivated and you can use this inspiration to go forward and really try to quit. You'll have a couple of very cold and sweating days. And for a while you'll need to get used to quick 'showers' instead of the hot bath. On the other hand, it will enable you to do things more effectively, to wake up for the real life and enjoy the benefits with your eyes opened, so to speak. Go back to the freedom days and replace these bad memories for new ones. Opiates tend to deceive most of us and make us remember about the good moments only. Don't wait for something bad to happen in your life, stop while are thinking ahead. We can help you accomplish that. And, thanks for sharing your analogy with us. It is indeed a good one. :)
 
Thanks man, I just posted my story in basic drug discussion if you have a minute I could use some advice/support

I actually thought of that analogy like 4-5 years ago when I was going through my very first brutal withdrawal...I was thinking once the bath drains, and you're wet and shivering you just have to endure that for a few minutes while you air/drip dry and slowly but surely you get dry and comfortable and back to the way you should be
 
I know how you feel. And we tend to think about it more than we should. That can get pretty annoying sometimes.
I have noticed with time that these cravings do not last that long. I have had so much of them during most of my life and now when I think about it I can see that it does not take as much as we give credit for. I've always mention that we should try to live one hour at a time instead of one day at a time for few days until you get your own strategies. Practice makes it perfect!!
 
The hot water tank gets emptied after a while and all you can get out of it is lukewarm at best. Eventually you've been lying in that bathtub for so long that your skin is falling off and you're starving. Maybe you even burnt out the element in the water heater from overuse and are just clinging onto some memory of the perfect bath, when in reality, that water is never going to be as hot as the first time and you will slowly drown if you don't get out.
 
Swimmingdancer said:
The hot water tank gets emptied after a while and all you can get out of it is lukewarm at best. Eventually you've been lying in that bathtub for so long that your skin is falling off and you're starving. Maybe you even burnt out the element in the water heater from overuse and are just clinging onto some memory of the perfect bath, when in reality, that water is never going to be as hot as the first time and you will slowly drown if you don't get out.
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That's what really happens after a while. Nothing else that you do will make that hot tub look appeal again. It's all a dull routine so you can "live" another day.
 
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