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Drug Sabbatical Support & Appreciation Thread

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kate said:
Best of luck Cherry <3 I hope this works out for you.



That's shocking.

I think the variances in waiting times for addiction services etc is very area / location dependant :\

The last time I needed some help I had to wait 3 weeks for an appointment.
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yeah it is shocking but sadly thats the average waiting time here if you cant afford to pay for it. time is so important in this suitation, as you know you have to be in the right frame of mind when going through treatment and have to really want to do it for yourself, its a big step making that decision, by the time the bed is available she might decide she doesn't want to go in.
iv been in treatment once, it was for 6 weeks, i stayed clean for a while and then relapsed. dont think id go again, iv been thinking about NA meetings tho.
the only thing with them is the advise you to stop all drugs/drink, don't think i would be able to do that, it would be the end of my social life, well an enjoyable one anyway :)
 
kate said:
Best of luck Cherry <3 I hope this works out for you.



That's shocking.

I think the variances in waiting times for addiction services etc is very area / location dependant :\

The last time I needed some help I had to wait 3 weeks for an appointment.
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Thank you. I can only try my best.

It does vary from waiting lists from place to place. In Manchester I only had a week's wait for a similar thing, depends on the scale of problems from city to city.
 
Day 2 no alcohol
Day 11 no caffeine (decaffeinated tea is shite btw)
Day 2 no recreational drugs

I did reasonably well for me this week with the drugs - 3 days nothing, then a slip up and then a mad one on Thursday :\ Been tapering down on other things and now on my way to tapering off the tapering off stuff 8)

If I keep this up I'll be on my way next week to being drug free!...My goal is to take 2 weeks off 8o

*twiddles fingers and squirms*:|
 
^ Good work, keep going :)

I'm on day 7 of no alcohol. First time i've done a stretch this long in months. Antabuse and addiction counselling is going well. I've got another session next week. Though, if it wasn't for the tablets I think I would have drank as my will power showed some cracks.

I'm not drug clean, but all i've been using is G, but that's to ease the transition from boozing every day as my anxiety climbed.

Made a plan with my counsellor. Going to try do a couple more weeks, then try one night of social drinking as there's a big night out planned, and see how I do with not carrying it on. If I fail, i'll just have to start again. :\
 
i haven't taken any drugs since new years eve. i even gave away over a quarter of really nice weed last week and about half a gram of decent coke. ive decided to drink alcohol at the most every other night and only 3 pints max then. ive cut way down on coffee as well, trying to stick to just one strong cup in the morning.

its only been 3 weeks so far but im not missing it atall tbh, getting fucked up all the time has just lost its appeal to me.

hopefully this time i will stop for good, at the moment i feel better than i have for a long time.
 
really want to have a crack at being totally sober, aside from maybe the odd benzo for sleep.. doing well with K but need to quit weed for a bit as well not really had a break for around 6 years and the work at uni is getting intense
 
Drank under 21 units this week. Probably the first time in about a decade, unless I've had G to use. Impressed with myself.
 
I've almost kicked GBL for the umpteenth time. Lets hope it's the last. :D
 
I definitely need a sabbatical, been sailing too close to the wind for too long now.. almost managed it this weekend but not quite. Def having oxy too frequently, and stims, and drinking + eating benzos too much. Going to try for a month's sabbatical and see if it improves my mental health at all... damn it's not easy though, temptation everywhere!
 
The plan... take daily dairy of what I did that day & what drugs consumed with amounts.

Take up week night hobbies again... exercise - jogging, sit ups, weights etc. Start going to martial arts classes. Go play pool with mates in oub 2 nights a week. Cycle every Sunday. Motorbiking.. Natural health remedies. & swimming/gym once a month.

Hopefully significantly reduce regularity & amount of consumption :)
 
I managed 9 days, then broke my attempt. I then remembered that drink does weird things to my brain and sends me crackers. Now i'm angry at myself for taking steps backwards. Truth is, i just didn't want to face myself sober, even though I've been told by many she's a much nicer girl, but i'd been using G since I stopped drinking, (but it ran out today) so i'd not met the sober me yet.

So, attempt number two begins tomorrow, this time it'll have to be for the long haul. Least I've admitted that now. I'm glad I've got my meeting with counsellor tomorrow evening, we can work on a new plan. I need to banish alcohol and everything to do with it out of my life proper like.

I hated her using the words 'You're in recovery, it's too early days' when I spoke to her last week. Now I understand why. It takes it to admit it yourself though.

I think 9 days to have been sober (on my own, apart from dry houses, and forced attempts) in years is a start!

On the other hand, I'm so fucking happy that, thanks to alcohol I'm guaranteed a sound sleep and I don't have to suffer hours of counting and beating my mind up before I can follow the last few sheep over the fence and actually sleep! I've had less than 50 hours sleep in the last 7 days.
 
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cherrycolouredfunk said:
I managed 9 days, then broke my attempt. I then remembered that drink does weird things to my brain and sends me crackers. Now i'm angry at myself for taking steps backwards. Truth is, i just didn't want to face myself sober, even though I've been told by many she's a much nicer girl, but i'd been using G since I stopped drinking, (but it ran out today) so i'd not met the sober me yet.

So, attempt number two begins tomorrow, this time it'll have to be for the long haul. Least I've admitted that now. I'm glad I've got my meeting with counsellor tomorrow evening, we can work on a new plan. I need to banish alcohol and everything to do with it out of my life proper like.

I hated her using the words 'You're in recovery, it's too early days' when I spoke to her last week. Now I understand why. It takes it to admit it yourself though.

I think 9 days to have been sober (on my own, apart from dry houses, and forced attempts) in years is a start!

On the other hand, I'm so fucking happy that, thanks to alcohol I'm guaranteed a sound sleep and I don't have to suffer hours of counting and beating my mind up before I can follow the last few sheep over the fence and actually sleep! I've had less than 50 hours sleep in the last 7 days.
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Alcohol is a bastard of a drug - I hate it/love it. I could quite easily stop all drugs for as long as I want except alcohol.

Its almost as if your two people when you drink regularly - the sober one who is thinking, I could do with a drink - I just fancy a drink - a few drinks would be lovely - a glass of wine with this - a couple of cans with that - etc and then the other person who has had some/all of the above and your content. If its at night then you know that sleep is pending - if its during the day then you know that your warm n fuzzy inside and the shit that daily life throws in your direction wont feel as bad.

I fell off the 25day wagon last night :X

Good luck with your next attempt CCF :)
 
since venturing out again, i have been literally gobsmacked at the amount of md products available to me in one form or another.

since early december i have been out every fortnight sampling the goods, and twice in one week at xmas/new year; but it is going to stop right now. i have told my main dealer and all my friends i am having a month off. good thing hes a great guy and hes even suggested the same to me myself. atm i have access to pink diamonds, red rockstars, hes getting the route 66 in for me especially and hes on the case tracking down the orange standby/qdance also.

somewhere else i have access to four different types of crystal , grey, clear, brown, fine powder with little yellow/clear crystals and some green stuff is apprently orbiting somewhere from someone else that looks like ill be able to have acess to that to try also.

do not ever wish for something hard enough, you may just get it and regret it. the temptation to keep testing new goods that become available is quite frankly a complete nightmare.

on top of all this i now have a coke dealer rubbing 80 quid gear in my face telling me its the shit, but its something apart from a few of lines ive completley dismissed since june and have absolutley no intentions of getting sucked back into....

yes its been fun, and ive been wanting more than anything to be given the option again for sure, but its very easy to be sitting there nearly two months later wondering where the times flown by, with sunken eyes and looking a bit gaunt, even if i dont think ive neccesarily been overly caning it

my liver, kidneys, brain and seratonin are off on holiday again for a nice little rest to put there feet up.

my dealers saving me the route 66 for next month, then its back to square one, this time with a little more restraint and less frequencey ;)

but for now, its back to detox dee :(
 
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its been about two months now since i have taken any illegal drugs, i feel better for it but im starting to get a bit bored. i mite have to get a bit of mdma or coke in the near future just as a one off. i am pleased with myself for having such a decent break tho :)
 
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