The pleasure that drugs give you when you start using them regularly, really drastically changes the way you experience life when you're not high...It creates an emptiness inside of you that keeps growing...
Sooner or later, the emptiness gets so big that you barely experience any joy or pleasure from normal, real-life things...School, work, hobbies, things you were passionate about...all seem like chores you have to endure between getting high...And worst of all, it will even do this to relationships, and make them feel like a chore...
Eventually, even getting high doesn't excite you anymore...and that's when you're really screwed...That's when you stop and slowly start to feel human again, or look for stronger drugs...
Despite opiates being really addictive and potentially dangerous, one of their saving graces is that you can bounce back from them, they're not super damaging to your body or mind...Whereas, most stimulants can screw you up permanently, make you crazy, prematurely age you, burn your heart out...etc.
Oh yeah, I stopped being a father to my child cuz it felt like a burden to me, I didn't want it to be like that but the drugs made it that way. I never wanted to play with her or do anything but lay around. Eventually I wanted the drugs to feel normal, yeah I wanted them so I could get high but more to feel normal. And yeah it fucked my relationship up with my fiancé, mentally and sexually. We would fight all the time over the stupidest shit like little kids and yell at each other daily. I never hit or touched her though. I would never do that to a women. Our sex life was shit, hardly ever "did it" and at one point she cheated on me. Ever since then I've always been worried about her, where she's going, what she's doing, who she's with. Most of the time i wouldn't let her go anywhere without me except to work and even then I worried. I didn't trust her as far as I could throw her and that's a bad feeling. Every time she earned the slightest bit of trust with me, she did something to fuck it up and all because of drugs.
You say your dad makes you get out of the house so I see they are aware of your problem... My parents have no idea... one time 2 years ago I stole 2 pills and they found out cause they were counting them and looked at me like a fucking monster... I could never tell them, they are old school they wouldn't understand...
I've been close to telling my mom before but never did and I'm glad cause I know I'm not that deep into it and I can still get out, heck I feel like I'm already out... I just hope that my "friend" doesn't hit me up any time soon cause I already know what my answer will be
Yeah my parents know, they didnt freak out too bad cuz they understand addiction. They were coke heads at one point and right now my mom is in rehab for Alcohol, Ativan and ambien abuse, she gets out next Tuesday

. But I was on opiates for over 4yrs and after a while you physical appearance changes for the worst and ppl start to notice. My parents first found out a couple years ago when they were being nosy. They got a hold of my phone and went through it and saw my messages. They didn't really do anything until I started stealing from them. I would take their debit cards(which I knew the PIN numbers) and I would take money from their account. I had stolen a few grand from them. They started to notice money going missing and bank statements showing transactions they didn't make. Me and my fiancé were doing it to them and it's something I regret ever doing and feel shitty about it everyday. They made me and my fiancé(gf at the time)go to detox, this detox was strict and they wouldn't let me out until they knew I was stable. So I spent 5 days there and lied to the docs and social works so I could get out. I was still withdrawing. I relapsed the day after I got out cuz we had pay checks waitin on us. So i stated using again but they didn't figure out for a while.
A couple more years passed and I became really lazy and sleeping all day stealing from them again and they started taking notice. I always denied that I was using. A couple times i admitted it cuz I had pawned some of my stuff for drugs and they noticed them gone but i told them I was getting clean and they left it at that. The last month of my use I was banging heroin and they saw the marks on my arms and that was the last straw for them. They started to threaten to take my daughter away and ppl made complaints to DSS that I was shooting up in front of my daughter which is not true cuz she has never seen me stick a needle in my arm. This happened a week ago and now here I am. My daughter has been temporarily removed from my home, I can't see her unsupervised, my parents don't trust me with their lives and half of my moms side of the family hates my guts. I think my moms sister is the one who called DSS in the first place.
I feel like the biggest piece of shit as a son, soon to be husband and father but this is all encouragement to stay clean. If I was still using at this moment, I would never see my daughter again and I'd be living on the streets. But since your not deep into this like I was than I don't see the need for you to tell your parents. Doing that may only make things worse. Get out and stay out so you don't stoop to the level I was at cuz it will happen. I never thought I'd be stealin from the ones I love but I did all because of those little pills. I'm lucky I haven't gone to prison. My cousin was in my situation but was breaking into houses and stealing guns. He went to prison for a few years and just got out in January.
Oh and I just saw your most recent post and needed to add this as well. My fiancé was supporting both our habits. She worked as a server so she would come home with money every time she worked and we would spend it all each day. Then she started to only work weekends. Once Sunday nights would come around I would begin to get scared, no, terrified of the weekdays to come cuz she wouldn't be working except maybe one day durring the week which meant we wouldn't have drugs for a few days unless we found a way to get money, some times she borrowed it. I hated being scared of the week days. It shouldn't be like that.
Sorry my posts are so long but I like to talk about this topic and try to help ppl if I can