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KingFrankWaits

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I just wanted to introduce myself, you may call me Frank or simply The King haha! I've been lurking and scanning over these forums on and off for a few years but never introduced myself, made a few high octane posts that have since been deleted, thanks mods...they were a bit embarrassing. I'm here for both harm reduction and to try to muster the corage to live clean. In the past 15 years I've only had a few sober streatches never lasting longer than 3-4 months. Mostly I just smoke marijuana but dabble in other things on occasion and sometimes it gets out of control for awhile. I'm sure some of you can comiserate there. In my early to mid twenties I would take anything I could get my hands on and have tried most drugs, save for a number of research chems and dmt as neither were as plentaful then as they are now. I'm an ex military, disabled veteran and father of two. My use rarely if ever interferes with my duties as primary caretaker for my children. They are my everything. I've had many jobs over the years from nuclear engineer to back up battery technician to random horticultural jobs and laboring to working in two table top role playing game stores to a mechanic shop. My interests are limited but I adore road trips in the summer, the longer the better with many stops for camping and kayaking. Occasionally the art bug will bite me and I paint, draw, make art out of garbage, etc. but I'm no artist. I listen to almost all types of music and just love something with a mellow groove and a bit of a beat to bop to, I've tried to pick up and learn (either on my own or with the aid of lessons) many instruments but I think I'm just meant to enjoy music not make it haha! As much as they drive me crazy I couldn't live without my furry dog buddies, they only come second to my human babies (who aren't really babies, they're 11 and 10, getting close to those teen years and getting nervous). I had a good recovering addict friend who said based on my history I should start saving for treatment rather than college which is both hilarious and mortifyingly serious. This site has already helped me reduce my use and better understand what I do to my brain chems, throwing them off balance and depletion and fried re uptake sites. I'm really hoping that I can some day (soon?) live clean but it seems like such a daunting task. I know that if I feel a certain way I can take substance q and it will ease my mind for only so long and that sometimes the aftermath isn't worth the temporary release. I'm "religiously" atheist and have nothing about me you could consider "spiritual", which from what I've been told makes it harder to get and stay clean. If you've gotten this far, thank you for taking the time to read part of my story...
I'm interested in the adoption/apprentice program in effect on this site. Anyone interested please let me know. I will try to get out there and join in some discussions and maybe start some! Thank you,
The King
Frank Waits
 
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Hi Frank, glad to see you came back. Thanks for sharing your story. I have one son age 17 and he is my world. Looking into getting a puppy since unfortunately both my dogs passed away this year. We have a New Member Adoption program and I'd be glad to sponsor you. You can send me a private message anytime. :)
 
Welcome wow thats alot of random jobs i must say it sounds like youve had a pretty cool life:)

Glad to hear your back hope you enjoy the site as much as i have in my time here.
 
Thanks T. Calderone I would like to take you up on that offer, please do sponsor me!

Trainspotter: I have had a lot of various jobs in my time, I usually get bored or freak out and have to quit (I have mad social anxiety, a major reason for my self medication). I'm always going back to school as well, I'm 2 classes away from one degree, a semester away from another (again, I either get bored or freak out and have to quit).

I didn't mention above but I am diagnosed bipolar, PTSD, general anxiety including panic attacks, and some personality disorder that I have my doubts about. I am lightly medicated with a low dose of a potent antipsychotic and an average dose of a mood stabilizer, along with a few benzos that, depending on the situation, I can take or leave, the anxiety is very situationally agrivated. As stated above, I am a former military service member and the veterans administration takes as good of care of me as they can. I really can't complain about the VA because it is all provided free of charge as all my diagnosis were given to me after my service time and it was deemed caused or agrivated by my experiences in the service. My only issue is that they won't prescribe me what helps best, which is adderall or Ritalin, due to a serious coke problem I had a few years back (again with the self medication that got out of hand). When I have adderall, I have no need for benzos, I function as a happy go lucky, confident, "together", "functioning" person who can leave the house and talk to a cashier or stay in and read or do housework or whatever...all this works for extended periods at low doses, plenty of food and water, a good multivitamin, a few suppliments and extra vitamins D and B12/folic acid. The drs think I'm "med seeking" when I mention the stimulant class of medications so I find it elsewhere, but would much rather have a legal prescription (did I mention free too). It works better than any cocktail of crazy pharmacuticals they've had me on before. I had one dr that prescribed me Ritalin and I had a very high functioning 6-9 months before someone stole all my meds at a house party I was having and I had the dumb idea to tell the dr I needed more because the others got stolen. They immediately labeled me a med seeker and took it away...
 
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