Pros & Cons

It's been a trip since I stopped using back in dec 2006 & went on a hiatus until mar 2009, & didn't even try speed again til end of april, I believe. There were obvious advantages of bein clean. I did stay more on top of doing life's stupid bullshit I hate doing, when required. I had more money. In fact, I had more "real" friends. I love my few addict friends I have, but face it, most are so self absorbed and wouldn't give it a 2nd thought running a game on you and try to get away with it. My friend Aimee is like that, my heroin addict bud. She can be more fun than almost anyone, but she will snag money out of your wallet, purse, or whatever if left unguarded. My NA friends didn't want anything from me, nor me from them other than friendship, and did in fact help each other out w/o expecting anything in return. I guess I am feeling the sting of isolation, even though truthfully, I'm one of the most extreme cases of reclusiveness I've ever met, lol.

I was writing down the pros and cons, and came of with so many pros I love about using. Never being bored is probably at the top of my list. My mind is a mental playground, always has been, then when Crystal came into the picture, WHOA! talk about REALLY escaping in style. Then of course, there's the fact that my beauty came back. Other's have always told me how much they love my looks, that is unless I'm fat like I surely was clean for those 27 months. I can write again, even though I some how miss out on actually getting it onto the pc since my relapse. I love to walk, dance, exercise again, whereas 70 lbs ago, it was a fucking chore, not to mention shopping and finding more beautiful shit to wear, even though all my shopping is at thrift shops. No more foot pain, no more horrific monthly pain granted to women only, haha.

Then why am I so sad underneath it all I wonder? Well the obvious symptom, back to going through money too damn quickly sucks for one and the other thing is that using anymore, there's no way I wanna even think about venturing outside the house to prevent getting busted, save for the odd occasion of spending the night at Aimee & Linda's. Their place is much too hot though and I can't afford to get in trouble again. I could lose my professional license for good. I don't have to worry about driving since my car took a dive back in August, and also tolerance levels being up means I function and "blend" in better with John & Jane Doe Normal USA. I eat every day, I sleep. So, I'm struggling once again of getting my dope fiending self back on a "schedule."

After being off the shit 3 months, I felt the first shot BIG time, of course. I've noticed too, that once my other clubs got taken away back in 2005 and 2006 because of some fuck story that complained, this club was pretty much dead city. Now I'm paranoid to let anyone in unless I know them or are recommended by someone that will vouch for them. Of course, now all of a sudden more members just out of thin air want to join. Where do these people come from? I'd hate to lose another club, that's why I'm not encouraging new admissions. Obviously, if it happens, oh well. That's what back up is for I guess. Now I'm gonna make me a serious do dad.
 
i kinda know how u feel with the 'pros and cons' thing
me and my friend (not giving names) both found in the end the cons actually outweighed the pros
both of us had bad experiences with NA as well so abstinence isnt an issue for us really
im treated like an alien at NA (literally they edge around me like theyre gonna catch a relapse off me lol) cos i was pretty much forced onto the methadone program (well i was told i wasnt allowed back in detox if i relapsed on opiates again unless i tried MMT....and at the time it was fairly likely i may hav relapsed if i hadnt gone on 'done)

anyway we decided we wud try just using a dot a fortnight
now that might sound completely impossible coming from me, a heavy methamphetamine user for most of 10yrs but so far, now weve detoxed we both find just a scoop of crystal has us fried as
we havnt yet gone back to our old ways - but if we do, thats wen we accept its abstinence or nothing
and thats no big deal......like i say, the pros of heavy meth use r waaaay outweighed by the cons

i know u look at these things diffrently and probly think my way sounds like sheer lunacy but thats not the point
diffrent strokes for diffrent folks

wat i was more getting round to saying was, its intresting how another person (who has bn pretty supportive to me in the past) has also done the old 'pros/cons' list
in fact i wonder how many of us here on BL hav done so

i think they really help us look at our drug use and can pull us up short and help us decide where we need to go from wherever we r currently with watever drug were talking about (getting help, deciding wat sort of help, and where to go)

hope they accepted u back at NA after ur relapse much diffrently to the way they did with me
wud luv to talk to u via PM again (but hope u can accept me not going to NA anymore and why...)
<3
 
LOL. What makes you think I DID go back? Bless their hearts they WOULD accept me, but I haven't returned because when they ask, "How much clean time do you have?" haha yea right. A still using addict with no intention yet of quitting completely, makes me feel like a hypocrit, + the fact due to my guilty conscience, believe it or not, when I WAS still completely clean sans Tramadol, (technically cud still even pass drug test) I felt like somehow certain people KNEW I was a fraud. Whether they did or did not, the fact was that I knew, & in spite of the fact the technically Tramadol isn't a narcotic and had no problem testing clean for drug tests for probation, I was still either getting a buzz or taking it 2 avoid W/D's. I'm not a bullshitter, and could not in good conscience pretend I was not getting a buzz & or even taking Tramadol strictly to avoid W/D's. My sponsor was willing to let it slide, but again, I know my own heart....I don't feel right going back unless I can tell them "well I'm not clean, but I haven't used in 12 hrs, and want to work the program again..." meaning of course complete abstinence...:(. Would love to PM with you again. My yahoo mess is: judessa2u, if you ever wanna try me on that, or send email to above ID and add: @yahoo.com. BL box almost full. Hugs. Love TJ
 
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