One week on

It's hard to believe that a week ago I was fucked out of my mind.

If you'd told me then that in a week's time I'd be sober and feeling mostly okay (still sleeping 12 hours a night, still sometimes getting brain zaps, but overall feeling pretty human) I would have said "ah, good good, glad I made it" -- I wouldn't have been surprised, but I would have felt sorry for my future self, living life with a big hole in it without the fun times of meph.

Well, honestly, I was wrong -- there's no big hole where meph used to go.

If you'd told me a week ago that I'd write that, I'd have said "ha ha, yeah, of course you'll say that - you're never going to admit that you miss it".

So, do I miss it? Really?

Well... going after the easy and obvious one first - do I crave it?
No. I honestly don't. I think of meph, and I remember the acrid taste of it dripping down the back of my throat, the fear as my vision got worse and worse, the desperation as I dropped bigger and bigger doses trying to get away from the anxious wrecked halfway-there state of fuckedness.

Do I miss it though? Before I stopped I wrote a half a page of ramblings from a truly euphoric mephy state. It starts "here I am, standing on top of a mountain looking down across all that it our world". The rest of it doesn't make much sense -- but yes, I miss that feeling -- and I know that there's nothing like it in the world of sobriety.

I'm trying to find the right words to describe how it felt, but I guess that if you're reading this, you probably already know.

In the end though, it wasn't worth it. Even the most enthusiastic recreational drug takers wavered at "yeh, I have practically no peripheral vision left but fuck me, the euphoria is nice".
Doesn't matter what they say though, does it? By my own standards, and my own judgement, I say it's not worth it.

If you're a happy occasional user, please don't come and flame. I don't know why I keep asking stuff like that, since no one has ever flamed me in blog comments - I guess I'm just protecting myself with pre-emptive puppy dog eyes *insert appropriate smiley* 8o no 8) no 8( no
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I've heard that meph is very compulsive, yet not that addictive. So while you really feel like doing it all the time, when you do stop, once you get over the hangover you're pretty well in the clear. Or so I've heard at least.

Congrats on the week clean though! Keep up the great work.
 
Meph is on a very short list of drugs I will never touch again. All it took was one bout of rapid heartbeat to put me into a state of panic. I wrote it off as a one-off. Then it seemed everyone on Bluelight started to use it and I was like, "why? There are stims that blow this stuff away and don't have the subjective 'feeling' of being quite so hard on the heart!"

Then your journal and the ramblings of the people that enjoy the stuff came along, and I am not shortsighted enough to rain on someone's parade who's enjoying themselves. The reason I didn't give meph a second chance wasn't because I wasn't intrigued. Those of you who did it would often rave about it and I just didn't get it. I also felt it would be a terrible thing to be addicted to.

Haha, I sound like I'm on it. I really just stopped in to say I enjoy reading your Blog and that you might check out the thread "NOvember" in TDS, where a lot of us are quitting and cutting down various things. There's a lot of support in there. :)
 
angelsmoke & mugabe. Your plight is touching and disturbing, I hope you guys are still going strong. <3
 
how are you doing angelsmoke?
it's been really good reading your blogs... i have not become addicted though i've also used meph since about march last year, but only recreationally...
but now i feel like i'm on a slope which is getting steadily more slippery since new years. it feels too fucking good.
anyway well done, i hope you are still doing well and have not disappeared off here :)
 
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