Desperation getting out of control

Gummybearkatie

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Strangers on the internet are the only people who might understand. I wouldn't wish this on anybody.

I just spent an hour and a half digging into my leg to try to shoot the scrapings from my meth pipe along with a caffeine pill. I knew it wasn't enough to get me high, I knew I had used the needle more than 30 times, it pinched so bad and I just kept getting more frustrated. I ended up injecting it into my leg outside the vein anyway. I have been up for 5 or 6 days who knows and I recognize the psychosis but I won't go to bed for some reason. I have horrible hygeine. I ate last night for the first time this week.

I drop points on the carpet and use them anyway. I use old water or water I have cleaned out my point with to make the shot. I use the same spot over and over again because it worked until the vein collapses or blows. I shot someone else's bloody shot. I got Hep C from either that or using everybody else's rigs from the sharps container.

I have been homeless because I spent the rent money on drugs and I am two months late on rent right now. Thankfully it's Christmas or my landlord would send me back on the street. At first I tried to keep the house and my rented room clean but in less than a month I have blood on my bed and the floor, needles under my bed and garbage everywhere. My dealer trashed the living room and tore up the couch and I just stared at my room mates as they yelled at me. I didn't clean it up until way later when I remembered.

I have become selfish and manipulative. I helped rob a dealer when I was a junkie and we used a gun, kicked in his door and cut his hand with a huge knife. We got over $1,000 and almost a full piece. I felt no regret. I have lied to family, friends and strangers for cash. I have burned my bridges with most of my family. I would go around the city with a friend and go up to people, even up to their cars, with a story about not having bus fare. We flirted with them if needed. I stole $300 from a good friend's bank account.

I threw a huge box of needles into a trash compactor at my old apartment. We left the place a disgusting mess and our diseased blood and used rigs were everywhere. We never had any clean spoons. It was a shooting gallery for all my drug addict friends.

I had to give up my pets to strangers. I had to stop letting the neighbor's daughter over to play my video games because it wasn't safe for her. I can't have kids of my own and do this to them. I quit college to get high. I've pawned every piece of jewelry and electronics I had. I am seriously contemplating pawning my new laptop for the $50.

I want to be high every day and get very angry and very depressed when the high wears off or I can't get anymore drugs. I live for the euphoric rush of slamming methamphetamine. I shot a very trippy psychedelic with it in a black out. I am covered in bruises, bumps and marks. I have permanent scars and my veins are hard and unusable in my arms because I IVed uneducated for too long. It is a major hassle to have blood drawn at the hospital.

I am worried I will die soon. I've woken up in the hospital after overdosing. I've had close friends go to prison and die because of what we do. If I'm ever in serious medical trouble, I worry they will never find a vein. I've been kicked out of hospitals and fled a detox center to have the cops chase me. My criminal record is growing. I burned my fingers on a hot pipe and flicked my lighter until my thumb got a blister just to try to hit a pipe I knew was empty. I shoot caffeine pills, benadryl and water to cure my needle fixation. I bore a lot of people when I babble like this. I lose my social skills and say absurd things.

I hope I can fix myself. I really want to change but I think I want the drugs and lifestyle more. I started doctor hopping at twelve years old. I feel like I am lost. I don't have any motivation, goals or cares except when are the drugs coming and where is the money. I don't know if I have the willpower to take the first step. I have destroyed my life with heroin, cocaine and speed.
 
I understand completely, except my DOC was heroin. I hope you can get to a point in your life where this all adds up and you want to make a change!
 
g bear katie,
your despondency misses not even the most cold hearted member of this message board .

I have had huge addictions and much of the hardships that accompany this most treacherous of crazed behavior problems. i have sat in a chair for months on end thinking about nothing but suicide . that episode was drug driven but it was pills that an inept psychologist prescribed against the pharmaceutical manufactures time limit.

I have struggled with mental heath issues since my teens. I have detoxed, cold turkey'd and gone on for years on end with nothing intoxicating in me .

You are intelligent as far as I can determine . you can write really quite well. i have not a clue how you manage to with all the burden that you carry .

I am not a fan of the ''recovery'' industry because of personal prejudices . that said, somehow you have to be your own advocate in searching for help with your demons .

there ARE competent, brilliant psych docs out there . it's hit or miss unless one can get a recommendation from another mental that one knows and trusts . the best for me was a holistic type one . he was a former surgeon and his practice was both pill rolling and a lot of talking in order to find out just what wiring was shorted out.

you absolutely have bats in your belfry . where they originate is the the issue that a good Pdoc can get a handle on .

there are others that have gotten back from the pit that you describe . it is not beyond reason . but i have no cheer leader speech to offer .
 
Gummybearkatie, I'm really sorry to hear that... I really do feel for ya, it's such a sad thought that some people have to live their life that way... I suggest going to a detox or rehabilitation center... Really. It takes a lot of courage... But, you need to say enough is enough and get help, it's the best way to be truly happy. I've gone through some pretty rough times too... I've mugged people for money, I've robbed a store with some guys I've known for about 10 minutes, I've beaten my mothers boyfriend so bad that he had to be hospitalized because he took a pack of smokes from me, and I've seen my friends go down an even worse path... Some similar to yours. Trust me Katie, you're not alone. There's a lot of people with problems similar to yours. It's great that you've noticed that you have a problem and need help, that's the first step, actually - not a step, it's a great big leap down the path of success, but you need to decide if you're going to keep following that path, or if you're going to turn back and go down the other one, the easier one. Going down the right path could be an incredibly terrifying, and hard experience, but everybody has the power to do it, and I believe in you that you can.

Keep us updated, I really hope you do find help, do the right thing, I believe in you. <3
 
we talked a little about this at the meeting, i know with my personal experience in addiction I was desperate to try anything at first.. I just never did the "god" thing, which it turned me away from the program for so long. I'm just now trying to find that higherpower.
Right now I listen in meetings, and suprisingly(sp) people go through the same shit I go through, so we arn't alone in this battle. Going to meetings is saving my ass right now, yeah meetings wont keep you sober. but meeting makers make it.

hang in there gummy, your not alone in this shit. get a sponsor and call him/her.
 
Hey Katie,
I to am in the same boat as you.....I use both Heroin (1/4 oz a day, & it's really good shit) plus Meth. I hardly ever get that really good Rush from either one anymore! I ODed and wound up in Sacred Heart 2 months ago from shooting speed. I have all but lost a once very successful Modeling career. I have blown damn near all my funds (over $40,000.00) since last summer. I am still Hot, so people hire me but I have a hard time explaining the track marks sometimes. The camera men use photoshop to "Chop" them out of my pics. I live day to day hour by hour....to get high. I don't get out of bed or eat without Dope..........
So, Hell tell the shadow people Hey! And keep on livin' just try to love KATIE also.........

Yo Peace Out
 
Amazing how many people have similar stories. I feel alone when I see the "normals" in the conveince store or on TV or wherever. I wonder am I the only one. I see that I'm not. This is a great place because there are people that are where you are at in life and people that been to the other side and stayed.

My DOC is heroin/opiates. But my story is similar to yours. I am trying to get to where D's is. It's not easy but can be done.
 
Thank you guys. I got evicted again but luckily I'm in a new place, just moved in today. I cried and cried, being alone on Christmas and New Years Eve. I got ripped off $110 bucks last night buying a teener from my usual dealer because he's mad at me and I knew it but I really needed to at least have drugs if not people.

I also woke up in an ER I think 2 days ago (??) and immediately demanded to leave instead of talk to the counselor who was offering me resources. I remember thinking everybody kept changing bodies.

My new roommate is diabetic. It is so tempting not to take his points when I only have one and it's dull. It's hard to hide being a tweaker too. I gotta not lose this place. I haven't eaten in like 4 days and I'm trying to choke stuff down. There's a women and crystal meth support group on Wednesdays in Seattle I want to go to.

I was thinking, if I start antidepressants will that stop me from getting high? It feels passive aggressive and a total lack of willpower, but I think it's at least a start? I have two shards left right now, enough for two shots or a good bowl but I can't urge myself to either do them or flush the speed. I guess it's better to sit here than to do more.
 
Thank you guys. I got evicted again but luckily I'm in a new place, just moved in today. I cried and cried, being alone on Christmas and New Years Eve. I got ripped off $110 bucks last night buying a teener from my usual dealer because he's mad at me and I knew it but I really needed to at least have drugs if not people.

I also woke up in an ER I think 2 days ago (??) and immediately demanded to leave instead of talk to the counselor who was offering me resources. I remember thinking everybody kept changing bodies.

My new roommate is diabetic. It is so tempting not to take his points when I only have one and it's dull. It's hard to hide being a tweaker too. I gotta not lose this place. I haven't eaten in like 4 days and I'm trying to choke stuff down. There's a women and crystal meth support group on Wednesdays in Seattle I want to go to.

I was thinking, if I start antidepressants will that stop me from getting high? It feels passive aggressive and a total lack of willpower, but I think it's at least a start? I have two shards left right now, enough for two shots or a good bowl but I can't urge myself to either do them or flush the speed. I guess it's better to sit here than to do more.

Antidepressants won't stop you from getting high, although they might help you stabilise enough to be able to use other resources to address your substance abuse. They take some time to kick in, so they're not an instant means of relief. Anti-psychotics may or may not help you but that would need to be determined by a mental health specialist.

If it's only two days since you woke up in the ER and you're still tweaking, you could probably either get yourself a psych admission or access some of their outpatient services.

It really doesn't sound as though you have any stability in your life and that's going to make quitting without help extremely difficult. Detox and rehab with exit through some kind of assisted living programme is probably your best bet when you're one fuck-up away from homelessness (and it sounds like you are). The highly structured, controlled environment of rehab can give you a kick start to creating stability in your life, but ultimately you're the one who has to do the work.
 
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