TDS The worst part of addiction is...

[PhrostByte]

... Knowing that you're going to relapse. You know it's probably the worst decision you can make. You remember just how much it's cost you. You know that the consequences outweigh whatever temporary benefits you'll get. But you still know you'll do it. You know that you're weak and you'll give in. All you can try the do is minimize the damage.

 

[angeleyes]

Some people beat addiction, don't lose hope, it's one of the biggest struggles ever but as cheesy as this is to say, the reward of living is great, try and keep your head up!

It's not easy being cheesy hahahaha but try and remember the reasons why you are trying to quit your addiction, whether it be for your own health or for your family, it's these reminders that help me through the hell

 

[stardust.hero]

... Knowing that you're going to relapse. You know it's probably the worst decision you can make. You remember just how much it's cost you. You know that the consequences outweigh whatever temporary benefits you'll get. But you still know you'll do it. You know that you're weak and you'll give in. All you can try the do is minimize the damage.

This type of thinking is what will allow you to rationalize relapsing again. Until you can believe in your mind that you will not relapse, because it isn't worth it and you know it, you won't be able to move forward.

You need to stop rationalizing that you are an addict and relapse is inevitable and start rationalizing that you cannot use anymore--and will not.

 

[RedRum OG]

having that attitude is the reason you relapse. be more positive. be more resistant to your urges, what youre saying is basically that you let them control you completely, thats not sobriety. and the more youre sober, the less devastating each relapse is, theyre shorter, less intense, and less desperate.

but if youre more often using on a big scale, well, then it goes the opposite way. and you should try to achieve sobriety, and being positive, know you have the power (fuck NA, being powerless, if youre powerless how are you going to be sober for even 1 day?)

 

[PhrostByte]

You're right. My attitude is the problem but all efforts I've made to change have failed. They say relapse is normal and maybe so... But I just haven't been able to get out of the cycle. I'm waiting for a miracle to give me the strength I need to change.

 

[stardust.hero]

You need to believe that you will not relapse again. Don't rationalize that it's normal for people to relapse..that's going to st you up for failure too.

 

[Eveleivibe]

Never lose hope. I relapsed other week on opiates. Took 64 tabs even though I'm on suboxone n felt nothing..... Was felling down n bla bla bla you get the drift..., best thing n ONLY thing we can do is pick ourselves up, see it for what it was---a blip n keep fighting the fight.
Evey

 

[Maya]

You need to believe that you will not relapse again. Don't rationalize that it's normal for people to relapse..that's going to st you up for failure too.

+1

I think for me the worst part of addiction is straining my relationship with the people I love. I just cant stand the fact that my addiction is affecting my friends and family and it hurts to see them frustrated or upset about me. That and wasting so much time on it.

 

[neversickanymore]

If I were in the final stages before an imminent relapse.. i think I would consider "relapsing" on something that would likely have a positive effect on my life and possibly save me from having to keep swinging through that wretched cycle of addition. We are all responsible for ourselves and our well being so it fall in our own court to figure out if this will aid you in your particular battle. > Mushrooms as Aid to Recovery <

 

[Kieko]

the worst part of addiction....from the moment I wake up till I fall asleep my thoughts revolve on where I'm going to get it/how/am I running low......what bill I can put off ect. Its fucking hell, its a full time job and all I'm trying to do is stay normal. If I got high out of it I think it wouldn't piss me off so bad. I've once again let a substance rule my world, and it makes me so fucking mad at myself. And yeah Maya...watching my husband watch me go through this is a separate hell of its own. I'm doing everything I can to get the fuck off this ride man, cant take it anymore.

 

[ad lib]

You need to believe that you will not relapse again. Don't rationalize that it's normal for people to relapse..that's going to st you up for failure too.

I agree with this 110%.

It may sound cliche, but mindset really is everything. You'd be surprised at how powerful your mind truly can be.

 

[PhrostByte]

It's not easy to force yourself to think differently

 

[ensta]

I think for me the worst part of addiction is straining my relationship with the people I love. I just cant stand the fact that my addiction is affecting my friends and family and it hurts to see them frustrated or upset about me. That and wasting so much time on it.

This.

And for me I don't even realise how bad it was is until I come out of my drug haze and its normally too late by then. I have no one. And then next thing you know relapse.

 

[maxalfie]

Allowing a substance {heroin} to control my life.
For too many years it was the one & only thing I thought of each day from the moment I opened my eyes first thing in the morning until i went back to bed at night.
Losing friends that I'd had for years because I stopped going out with them as I always chose to stay home and take my drugs eventually isolating myself away from everyone.
Now I haven't taken heroin since 31st August 2012.
I am on methadone maintenance but slowly I can feel my personality start to return to me.
I sincerely wish I had never tried heroin as my life would have been so different. But I did try heroin & now I gotta make the best of what I have got left.

 

[omnipresenthuman]

Depending on the substance, it's money or health. For a lot, both.

I don't think that weed is too bad for my health, no worse than a lot of things that I could ingest and that are legal, like, say, sugar, but it sure does cost money to do and to keep up as a habit.

If it wasn't for the terrible side effects, of which there are too many to bother listing here, I'd still be an amphetamine addict, popping Adderall pills every chance I had. But I can't do that shit anymore, it's way too destructive on the body and mind, enough said.