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What motivates you?

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So- the title says it all =D What motivates you to want to stay and/or get clean?

I'll go first!

- I don't want to go back to living with a secret.
- Having the ability to wear short sleeves without embarrassment.
- Not wanting to disappoint myself.
 
Im never going to live with the ball and chain of phisical dependence again
I feel better 90% of the time now than i did a 99% of the time when using..
man did drugs for so long it got soo boring
clear mind
love my son
fk addiction.. time to make it miserable
sex is so much better
the feeling i have when i wake up
and on and on:D

OH YEAH DI I MENTION i HATE MY ADDICTION AND IF I'M MISERABLE I'M EVER MISERABLE THEN IM SURE ITS MISERABLE AND THAT MAKE ME FEEL GOOD:p.
 
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rx_prn said:
- I don't want to go back to living with a secret.
- Having the ability to wear short sleeves without embarrassment.
- Not wanting to disappoint myself.
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Yeah all of the above :).

This is sort of similar to the thread about Good things about being off drugs/getting sober, but if I understand correctly you are more interested in people's main motivations to get or stay clean?

Some more reasons I want to stay clean:
- I want freedom to travel or move, I can't do those things easily while addicted to drugs.
- I want to give my brain/body more time to heal so I can see what it's like. If I went back to using I wouldn't get to know what I or my life would be like with a longer amount of time without drugs.
- I would feel like it would be taking a step backwards if I used any drugs I have been addicted/physically dependent to and I don't want to feel like all the time I have spent getting clean and trying to recover, and how painful that was, would be "wasted" (rationally I know it wouldn't be entirely wasted and there is no point beating oneself up or feeling like you're starting from zero if you relapse but it would be a set-back in my recovery, and if I went back to using full-time what would be the point of all the suffering, withdrawal, PAWS etc I have chosen to endure? Hopefully that makes sense).
 
Knowing that I can maintain the mind/body/spirit connection the clean me always rediscovers as long as I don't use.

A desire to move to another part of the world, or at least to travel.

Daily exercise and feeling my strength and endurance improve each day.

Learning to cook new dishes with money not spent on drugs.

Discovering new music, when I know that opiates cause me to lose interest in music.

Knowing that if I want to be passionate about drug policy reform, being a strung out junkie is NOT helpful to that.
 
Having the respect of my children; really being someone they are proud to call mom is my biggest motivation.

Not wanting to lose my career all over again is the second.

Not being lost in the constant fog of that heroin nod; it just isn't as great as really living and enjoying life.

I've found my happiness and inner peace and I won't give it up for that fake comfort of heroin.
 
Knowing that if I screw up one more time then I will lose pretty much everything.

I know I can accomplish great things in life and I know if I relapse then I will be nothing more than a junkie for the rest of my life.
 
Captain.Heroin said:
Knowing my friends and family are proud of me.
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This is a huge one for me, too! After coming all this way I don't want to let anyone down.

-Knowing that I have my freedom.
-Not having to deal with withdrawal.
-Not making myself sick by taking too much & dry heaving for hours.
-Having the physical ability to do more than sleep.
 
Being able to chase a dream and not a high.
Wanting to be the best I can be for future wife and kids
Possibility of the army has reopened.
helping others struggling with addiction
having true friends in my life today
Being able to love
 
every night i give my son a dream to dream and he gives me one in return... after we exchanged dreams, via chat tonight, he wrote "your the best dream i ever had but my dream came true" that should carry me for a long time.
 
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