Preparing for hell (sobriety) need advice

camjua

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I've Been off and on drugs since high school. This last year after my fiance left me in january I relapsed and have been abusing anything i can get my hands on since. I just this last week tried IV meth and IV heroin(only done meth a few times previously and never had tried heroin but found both this week and decided fuck it... I'm gonna try shooting shit and might as well shoot both in the same week. I bruised one of my veins pretty badly trying to shoot up with virtually no experience. I'm over 3000 in debt, no job and have been abusing every day since January... When I say anything i can get my hands on I mean.. As an example.. Coke, any opiates, benzos, alcohol, any stim, etc. I avoid psychedelics and dissociatives because they make me panic. I have BPD and weed alone usually makes me anxious. The drugs i abuse the most are: opiates (mainly morphine, oxycodone, hydrocodone) benzos, and stimulants (mainly adderall, vyvanse, cocaine, propylhexedrine and ephedrine). I smoke weed daily and have abusing anything i can get my hands on daily... If I can't find anything I'll drink heavily. I always have benzo withdrawals when I don't have them.. And no doctor will prescribe me them because i stupidly admitted to being an addict. I've seen 4 doctors and they all give me useless shit. Just this year I've OD'd 4 times. 3 times from downers... Once from adderall and coke. My family life is in ruins.. All.my good friends are gone replaced with druggies..sketchy fucking people that not only have stolen from me.. But also couch surfing mainly at a few sketchy filthy drug houses in sketchy neighborhoods. Making money by either doing sexual favors, selling shit or borrowing money... . I have no job, no money and worst of all just came down after shooting ice for an entire night 2 nights ago. Didn't sleep for 2 days after last dose... Used the last of my ativan, weed, seroquel and hydroxyzine to come down..i always hallucinate like crazy if i take any stimulants and smoke bud on the comedown. Even ephedrine or molly. Finally woke up today. After 8 hours sleep. Still slightly hallucinating. ...Have no money, no bud, no alcohol, no drugs. And have messaged over 30+ people to find anything.. Literally anything besides weed. (Since weed and alcohol kinda suck balls and don't do it for me anymore).. I keep telling myself I'll quit when this new year comes up but I don't know how I'll survive. Sobriety is just miserable. The worst. I wish I had never done drugs to begin with.

They say it gets better though right? Never did for me but I only stayed sober for roughly a year. I replaced drugs and booze with food though and gained weight like crazy and tried all these other stupid psych meds that don't work (since all that really seem to do shit for me are the bad ones lol (benzos and stims) ... All the psych meds and replacing drugs with food did was make me develop bulimia. Now I don't purge much but only because of drugs. I don't cut either if I have drugs.

I just don't know how anyone finds a happy life after drugs. I've tried and have never slammed till this week and only recently tried h and meth.. And I think that qualifies as a rock bottom for some. I'm not an addict to any particular substance.. Besides weed, nicotine and benzos... But I am addicted to being high if that makes sense. I need weed daily or i get super depressed but weed makes me anxious alone... So I usually smoke it on top of everything else and alcohol makes me sick almost always... But now I look in my backpack and have nothing and still suffering residual meth comedown shit and sobriety.

Drugs make you feel so good... Like when I shot heroin. I'd never felt more happy and safe.. In my life. It made me feel like a child being held by its mom. Better than Molly even because molly I still get self conscious and I dislike stimmy comedowns. Which is why my drugs of choice are benzos and opiates.

But drugs also make you feel equally as shitty when you don't have them and I'm praying someone will respond soon with a hookup. Though I promised myself at the end of this year I need to get clean... But if I'm this fucking miserable all the time.. When not on drugs... With the knowledge I will soon get high...which is a thought that brings me some joy... I don't know how I'll survive when I know sobriety isn't gonna end and there is no high in the future. Polysubstance abuse FTL.
 
Im really not in the position to offer any real advice as I keep relapsing but plenty of people do come out of the darkness of addiction and live a happy normal life. A lot of what you wrote rings true for me aswell, such as questioning whether I could live a happy and fullfilling life without the need to get high. At this moment in time im not ready as I have a lot of issues to deal with mentally plus I dont have much going for me to fill my days..ive been unemployed nearly 10 years

However, from what ive read a lot of people find peace from addiction and/or depression through meditation, exercise, aftercare like NA and 1 on 1 counselling,CBT, eating a healthy diet, acupuncture, finding some passions, hobbies, finding a calling in life. Some ppl find religion, its not my thing but its helped a lot of ppl deal with their issues through their Faith and spirituality

The best of luck with your plan for sobriety, hope things works out
 
It is never easy to get rid of addiction, you will relapse at some point, comeback and relapse all over again in the first stages of sobriety (based on my experiences). But what i have learned through all of this is that i am not fighting anyone but myself, I am the one who has put myself in the hole of addiction, I was the one who started this mess, I was the one who got myself into financial troubles. It is us who can get us out of that mindset, I believe in will power and if you really want to get sober and get better you will do whatever it takes to get yourself back into living. Goodluck and we are here if you need further help.
 
I think I am also scared to see reality. For example, I bruised a few of my veins pretty badly slamming and I shared the needle (I know, fucking stupid).. so now in hind sight it was beyond fucking dumb. Plus unprotected sex, etc. Now I gotta get checked out and just hope I didn't catch any incurable diseases. I wish I hadn't shared the needle. I was high at the time and I know the person really well so it seemed like an okay idea at the time. Looking back on it, it's probably the dumbest thing I've ever done.

I just hope to god I don't have hep C but ever since slamming meth the last few days my urine has been dark.. I feel very lethargic and weak.. (then again I have felt like that since I can remember) and my arms are sore. But the urine is the only thing I'm really nervous about. Also I keep getting these like fluttering feelings in my chest.. like my heart is murmuring.. looking back on it not only did I slam meth and share needles (both very VERY stupid things to do.. since putting anything from the street in your veins is risky business and sharing needles is even riskier..) but we slammed a lot multiple times.. which resulted in 2 days of no sleep and intense hallucinations. Shit when ever I smoke weed I hallucinate pretty intensely.

Dunno wtf I was thinking.. then again I think that's kinda part of the lifestyle of being a drug user.. not thinking.. lol.
 
It is never easy to get rid of addiction, you will relapse at some point, comeback and relapse all over again in the first stages of sobriety (based on my experiences). But what i have learned through all of this is that i am not fighting anyone but myself, I am the one who has put myself in the hole of addiction, I was the one who started this mess, I was the one who got myself into financial troubles. It is us who can get us out of that mindset, I believe in will power and if you really want to get sober and get better you will do whatever it takes to get yourself back into living. Goodluck and we are here if you need further help.

This!!
 
I've Been off and on drugs since high school. This last year after my fiance left me in january I relapsed and have been abusing anything i can get my hands on since. I just this last week tried IV meth and IV heroin(only done meth a few times previously and never had tried heroin but found both this week and decided fuck it... I'm gonna try shooting shit and might as well shoot both in the same week. I bruised one of my veins pretty badly trying to shoot up with virtually no experience. I'm over 3000 in debt, no job and have been abusing every day since January... When I say anything i can get my hands on I mean.. As an example.. Coke, any opiates, benzos, alcohol, any stim, etc. I avoid psychedelics and dissociatives because they make me panic. I have BPD and weed alone usually makes me anxious. The drugs i abuse the most are: opiates (mainly morphine, oxycodone, hydrocodone) benzos, and stimulants (mainly adderall, vyvanse, cocaine, propylhexedrine and ephedrine). I smoke weed daily and have abusing anything i can get my hands on daily... If I can't find anything I'll drink heavily. I always have benzo withdrawals when I don't have them.. And no doctor will prescribe me them because i stupidly admitted to being an addict. I've seen 4 doctors and they all give me useless shit. Just this year I've OD'd 4 times. 3 times from downers... Once from adderall and coke. My family life is in ruins.. All.my good friends are gone replaced with druggies..sketchy fucking people that not only have stolen from me.. But also couch surfing mainly at a few sketchy filthy drug houses in sketchy neighborhoods. Making money by either doing sexual favors, selling shit or borrowing money... . I have no job, no money and worst of all just came down after shooting ice for an entire night 2 nights ago. Didn't sleep for 2 days after last dose... Used the last of my ativan, weed, seroquel and hydroxyzine to come down..i always hallucinate like crazy if i take any stimulants and smoke bud on the comedown. Even ephedrine or molly. Finally woke up today. After 8 hours sleep. Still slightly hallucinating. ...Have no money, no bud, no alcohol, no drugs. And have messaged over 30+ people to find anything.. Literally anything besides weed. (Since weed and alcohol kinda suck balls and don't do it for me anymore).. I keep telling myself I'll quit when this new year comes up but I don't know how I'll survive. Sobriety is just miserable. The worst. I wish I had never done drugs to begin with.

They say it gets better though right? Never did for me but I only stayed sober for roughly a year. I replaced drugs and booze with food though and gained weight like crazy and tried all these other stupid psych meds that don't work (since all that really seem to do shit for me are the bad ones lol (benzos and stims) ... All the psych meds and replacing drugs with food did was make me develop bulimia. Now I don't purge much but only because of drugs. I don't cut either if I have drugs.

I just don't know how anyone finds a happy life after drugs. I've tried and have never slammed till this week and only recently tried h and meth.. And I think that qualifies as a rock bottom for some. I'm not an addict to any particular substance.. Besides weed, nicotine and benzos... But I am addicted to being high if that makes sense. I need weed daily or i get super depressed but weed makes me anxious alone... So I usually smoke it on top of everything else and alcohol makes me sick almost always... But now I look in my backpack and have nothing and still suffering residual meth comedown shit and sobriety.

Drugs make you feel so good... Like when I shot heroin. I'd never felt more happy and safe.. In my life. It made me feel like a child being held by its mom. Better than Molly even because molly I still get self conscious and I dislike stimmy comedowns. Which is why my drugs of choice are benzos and opiates.

But drugs also make you feel equally as shitty when you don't have them and I'm praying someone will respond soon with a hookup. Though I promised myself at the end of this year I need to get clean... But if I'm this fucking miserable all the time.. When not on drugs... With the knowledge I will soon get high...which is a thought that brings me some joy... I don't know how I'll survive when I know sobriety isn't gonna end and there is no high in the future. Polysubstance abuse FTL.

You keep doing what you're doing you're going to keep gettng what you're getting.
Hopefully you can find the strength to give yourself a chance to do something differently.
Problems of life don't magically get better when you get clean, I wont lie. But in my experience being clean has always been better than being strung out.
You got to also change other things in your life.
Change is very hard, but is what anyone has to do to if they are in search of a better life sober or not. The path of least resistance is always easier with respect. Drugs make it so hard to change.
It is a very hard easy fix. But doable.
Hope you find strength to try something different.
 
Drugs do make you feel so good - but you're just stealing happiness from tomorrow. Doing a drug is like taking a loan, and you will eventually have to pay that shit back with painful interest.

You mentioned you're borderline. DBT is your best bet for resolution. Until you learn more about the illness and how to change your behaviors and thoughts so they don't harm you- I see little hope with trying to recover. I'm not trying to be cynical, but I am all too experienced with the "illness" and how spiteful and self destructive people with it can be. Please seek out therapy ASAP.
 
Drugs do make you feel so good - but you're just stealing happiness from tomorrow. Doing a drug is like taking a loan, and you will eventually have to pay that shit back with painful interest.

You mentioned you're borderline. DBT is your best bet for resolution. Until you learn more about the illness and how to change your behaviors and thoughts so they don't harm you- I see little hope with trying to recover. I'm not trying to be cynical, but I am all too experienced with the "illness" and how spiteful and self destructive people with it can be. Please seek out therapy ASAP.

Exactly. Very well said!!
 
Drugs do make you feel so good - but you're just stealing happiness from tomorrow. Doing a drug is like taking a loan, and you will eventually have to pay that shit back with painful interest.

You mentioned you're borderline. DBT is your best bet for resolution. Until you learn more about the illness and how to change your behaviors and thoughts so they don't harm you- I see little hope with trying to recover. I'm not trying to be cynical, but I am all too experienced with the "illness" and how spiteful and self destructive people with it can be. Please seek out therapy ASAP.
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This
 
it takes a lot of hard work to feel ok with being sober and a lot of time i was sober for roughly a year as well and i hated life it's mostly how you feel about the situation instead of making yourself happy you make yourself feel like shit
 
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