This is how addiction works.. please take a gander throungh this thread >
here< and read through the cycle of addiction part.
The thing about the fantasizing is that its fantasy.. by this I mean our addiction whispers to us how we are missing out on the most amazing thing.. how if we use we will feel amazing.. it says why try and be strong when you will feel s good... the thing is that it lies.. the pictures and feelings it sends in the fantasies are just snap shots.. we always fantasies about the few times we felt really good and had good times.. why dont we ever fantasize about the way it really was.. the constant anxiety of trying to get some shit so we could feel worse than we fell 99% of the time when we are clean.
addiction takes those snap shots and uses them to try and entice us back.. it whispers I will make the world right and make you feel wonderful.. It lies every time.. when we relapse its never how we think it will be.. those days are long gone if they ever existed at all.. it wares us down and makes us think that we need a break.. just a little break.. but the truth is that we dont get a break.. as soon as we use we dont get a reprieve from or addictions, its not a break, it doesn't make things better or easier, in fact it makes everything worse.. the caving come back for real, the anxiety gets much worse.. the isolation and soul crushing properties of the drugs slip in immediately..
So the addiction whispers all these wonderful things.. lies all lies.. when we use we dont feel like it says.. not at all.. maybe the first time it feel ok.. not like what it said though.. no not like it said.. yeah we feel ok, but really kinda sick, itchy, upset stomach, but the biggest thing I think is how one use just takes that soul we have away.. that spark for life, the smile we get sometimes, the flare we have gotten so used to and have forgotten we had ever lost, forgotten how good it was to have it come back..
So after the use (if we make it through as by far the most OD's of my friends were on a relapse) So we use and think to ourselves wow that wasn't what I thought it was going to be.. it actually kinda sucked.. so we get rid of all the shit we had collected up for the relapse.. with the use we remember why we made the huge effort to quit this awful shit in the first place.
But know we are much closer to the flames.. we have set ourselves there.. we had to get the drugs from somewhere so we likely now have a connection, and we have fired back up that sleeping dragon.. we gave that insane addiction a taste.. and it wants more.. cause addiction isn't about feeling good.. it doesn't care that you have decided that it wasn't even close to worth it.. it doesn't care that it makes you feel like shit.. it doesn't care that it will drag you back to hell and could ruin your life.. it doesn't care about all you have accomplish, it doesn't care it just want to use.. so it will push and drive and crave much harder than it was before.. it will tell you well why not use just once more.. what harm could be in that. it will say you lost all that time anyway (more lies).. it will try and break you until you say ok well i will just use once a month.. then once a week, then only on the weekends, then not in the morning, and somewhere in this whole misery we become fully fucked again.. fully fucked and we were miserable the whole time..
So then if we haven't OD'd we make the monumental climb back out of the new whole we have just dug.. it whispers total nonsense.. its insane so dont fall for its bullshit.. dont get played.
Active addiction is hell.. it tells us to jump back in the flames.. you know just to warm up for a bit.. it hypnotizes us with utter bullshit..
If you dont want to get played then play the whole movie of what drug addiction is really like.. the soulless feeling, the anxiety, the loss of control, the hopelessness fo use, how unsatisfying it is every time, no passion, no spark, the depression, the pain, That is what addiction really is.. not that what are you fighting for I will make you feel amazing shit it whispers, utter lies lies and more lies.. how do you know its a lie, if it makes you want to use its a lie.. think back at it how it really is.. call it on its shit and tell it how it really is, laugh at its nonsense.. call it on its bullshit. So you dont get played, play back the whole tape of how life in addiction really is. Lies Lies Lies..
You can pull out of this slide.. there is nothing left back there for you but misery..