Yay another recovery diary

Guys... I really have to get my life together. My fucking dog deserves it bro like I'm so sad right now that I'm about to let my life fall apart again because of the dope. I'm so sad and I miss the good people that used to be in my life I miss my mom still. I can't stop being hard on myself I don't know how to stop the feeling that I deserve all of this. I hope things get better. 😭
Shelby 9/21/21 2:15am
 
Hi guys I hope you're doing ok. I'm feeling rough but I'm not high. That girl never came through. I still have her pipe and honestly I'm not trying to fill it. It would be my luck she comes through today but honestly I don't even want her to and I want to get rid of the pipe as well. Idk what I'm going to do. Idk if I want to be honest with her and tell her just to come pick up her pipe or if I want to just chuck her pipe and tell her not to come back. I'm so tired of myself and my shenanigans y'all. I'm depressed as fuck today like really truly legitimately feel depressed and irritated as fuck at the same time. I went to sleep last night I think around 3 and I slept fucking hard until about 4 today. Like usually I wake up about 9am ish and go back to sleep and I know I'm going to be sleeping in but no I had no idea I had slept so long even when I woke up I thought that surely it was only 10am or noon at the latest.

So... I really want to be done. I'm so sick of using my body hurts I'm literally just panicky all the time when I'm high and then I'm depressed like I am now like even using just for one night can throw me off for almost a whole week chemically. Now factor thay I've been using for more than one night.

Another thing.. I kinda feel like maybe I should move this to the smart recovery website on their forums like I really appriciate the input here and everything but idk I wonder what kind of feedback I would have over there. I might start a thread over there and copy/paste what I have here over there for like a few days to see what kind of input I get over there and to see if anybody can help me over there. If I do decide to stay over there I will leave a link with how to get there on here.

Anyways yeah... So I'm really nervous about this girl coming through I don't want her to honestly but I don't want the pipe in my house anymore. I think I'm gonna spend the next 5 days keeping to myself and then when Monday rolls around next week I will get myself ready with that job to be able to take the drug test and then hopefully I will have a job. I'm already setting myself up to fail a little waiting so long but I won't be able to pass a test till Friday at least and then I have to start and it'll take 2 weeks to get a check and I hope I don't get evicted by then the landlord already hates me. If I get an eviction notice though I'll definitely go to the food pantry here and have them help me out because they help with rent too.

Shelby
9/21/21 6:04pm
 
Hi guys. My depression is at a new all time high I just close my blinds and sleep all the time I want cigarettes but I don't even want to walk to go get them. I need to make appointments to doctors but I don't even have the energy I'm just gonna watch TV and go back to sleep.
Shelby 9/22/21 3:42pm
 
Guys... It is currently 2:18am and I have no motivation to do anything. Like... I don't have motivation for suicide, but I don't have motivation to live, either. I have no motivation to get a job, which I'm going to need if I don't want to be homeless. I really don't want to be homeless. So maybe that's my motivation but it seems like such a sucky motivation it doesn't feel like the sort of motivation I can get behind. I have no motivation to eat. I have no motivation for getting high but I don't have motivation for staying sober.

How do I get out of this rut? Help.

Shelby 9/23/21 2:21am
 
I know you don't like me as I don't sugar coat your illness and say awwww poor Shelby. Halfway through this so called recovery blog ( when you were getting ready to go to rehab ) so many people were rooting for you and you got some really good advice. Everyone that responded to you was really trying to help. The only help BL is able to give is really good advice yet you don't take any of it. It's coming up on 90 days and you have made zero progress as you aren't doing anything to help yourself. You say you have no motivation but lets get real. If someone stopped by with meth you would be all over that like white on rice. The problem is you don't have any motivation to actually help yourself.

You had a chance to go to FREE rehab and you quit. You got a job and you quit. You get good advice on here and take none of it. All you really want to do is hope that your Fairy Godmother is going to come along, wave her wand, and everything will be all better. If only that were the case none of us would be on here. I'm sure you have noticed that many posters came here to your " diary" and really tried to help. They don't come here much anymore because it's always the same old song and dance. Your whole diary consists of all these things you are going to do yet you do none of them.

You are asking for help on here. You have been getting a lot of good help. It's not helping. And Facebook can't help you either. It's time to man up and see a Dr. You need to be under a Physicians care for depression and addiction. You must have someone you trust as you are HIV positive and they must be giving you periodic tests. While you are sitting there trying to figure out how to get out of your " rut " maybe you should go back and re-read all 13 of these pages. That's where the answer lies. Taking a long hard look at the 13 pages that YOU wrote. The answer lies within yourself. Bl can suggest things but only if you listen and take some kind of action. The answer that you seek lies in the words that you wrote and if you are really honest with yourself I know you know this. You reached out to people on here and many tried to help. I know I did and you liked or " hearted " everyones comments except mine. Because the truth really does hurt and I know that first hand. The truth always hurts yet that is where the answer lies. If you stop making excuses to yourself and open up and let the truth come in you might be able to slowly climb out of your rut. It's all on you Shelby. If you can't help yourself how is BL and Facebook supposed to help?

Since you seem to care more about Butchy than you do yourself whats going to happen to him when you are homeless this Winter? And even if you manage to find someones house to crash at after you can't make your rent, do you think they want a dog too? Maybe, maybe not. If you can't get motivated to do anything else, maybe your dog in the shelter can motivate you. I know that you love him as I love my dog as well. Everyone on here loves their pets. If you can't get up and do anything for yourself maybe you could do it for him. He's helpless and looks to you for everything. He has a warm cozy home with someone that loves him. But not for long unless you get up now, stop feeling sorry for yourself, and call the Dr. Go back and re-read your diary and then get on the phone and make an appointment. Only you can help. Not us. It's time. This morning is the beginning of a possible new and better life for you but only you can make that call.
 
Shelby I have to say that @Pumpkin2021 is right, even though I would've worded it differently but I am notorious for being way too nice. But sometimes you have to read the raw, hard truth written down in a strong way to really get the message. Everybody here wants to see you succeed. Everybody here wants you to get clean, to stay clean, and to be happy and healthy. People have cheered you on when you've written about your achievements, and people have listened and offered lots of helpful words of encouragment and advice when you've not been doing so well. But at the end of the day it really is ALL up to you. Help is there if you want it and if you're ready for it. We want to see you win <3
 
I know you don't like me as I don't sugar coat your illness and say awwww poor Shelby. Halfway through this so called recovery blog ( when you were getting ready to go to rehab ) so many people were rooting for you and you got some really good advice. Everyone that responded to you was really trying to help. The only help BL is able to give is really good advice yet you don't take any of it. It's coming up on 90 days and you have made zero progress as you aren't doing anything to help yourself. You say you have no motivation but lets get real. If someone stopped by with meth you would be all over that like white on rice. The problem is you don't have any motivation to actually help yourself.

You had a chance to go to FREE rehab and you quit. You got a job and you quit. You get good advice on here and take none of it. All you really want to do is hope that your Fairy Godmother is going to come along, wave her wand, and everything will be all better. If only that were the case none of us would be on here. I'm sure you have noticed that many posters came here to your " diary" and really tried to help. They don't come here much anymore because it's always the same old song and dance. Your whole diary consists of all these things you are going to do yet you do none of them.

You are asking for help on here. You have been getting a lot of good help. It's not helping. And Facebook can't help you either. It's time to man up and see a Dr. You need to be under a Physicians care for depression and addiction. You must have someone you trust as you are HIV positive and they must be giving you periodic tests. While you are sitting there trying to figure out how to get out of your " rut " maybe you should go back and re-read all 13 of these pages. That's where the answer lies. Taking a long hard look at the 13 pages that YOU wrote. The answer lies within yourself. Bl can suggest things but only if you listen and take some kind of action. The answer that you seek lies in the words that you wrote and if you are really honest with yourself I know you know this. You reached out to people on here and many tried to help. I know I did and you liked or " hearted " everyones comments except mine. Because the truth really does hurt and I know that first hand. The truth always hurts yet that is where the answer lies. If you stop making excuses to yourself and open up and let the truth come in you might be able to slowly climb out of your rut. It's all on you Shelby. If you can't help yourself how is BL and Facebook supposed to help?

Since you seem to care more about Butchy than you do yourself whats going to happen to him when you are homeless this Winter? And even if you manage to find someones house to crash at after you can't make your rent, do you think they want a dog too? Maybe, maybe not. If you can't get motivated to do anything else, maybe your dog in the shelter can motivate you. I know that you love him as I love my dog as well. Everyone on here loves their pets. If you can't get up and do anything for yourself maybe you could do it for him. He's helpless and looks to you for everything. He has a warm cozy home with someone that loves him. But not for long unless you get up now, stop feeling sorry for yourself, and call the Dr. Go back and re-read your diary and then get on the phone and make an appointment. Only you can help. Not us. It's time. This morning is the beginning of a possible new and better life for you but only you can make that call.
I get where you're coming from I do. But I already have this voice in my head telling me that it's all me and that things are not going to get better. Nobody asked you to read these nobody asked you to have the answer. I come here so maybe someone someday will relate to my story. Idk why I come here but I do know when I read your replies to me it just depresses the ever living fuck out of me because you tell me things that I already know about myself. I get where you're coming from, but it's just misdirected and generally just makes me feel a lot worse about myself than when I started. I'm sorry I can't just figure it out like you want me to trust me I wish I'd do all the things that you'd tell me to do but for some reason I'm just THAT fuckin dumb. So I get it. But I'm telling you. You're doing way more hurt than you are helping by telling me a worst possible outcome of a scenario I have already thought through 3,000 times in the last 24 hours. If beating myself up and telling myself to "just do it" was the answer I most certainly wouldn't have to come here to write about it because I've already spent 27 long hard years of doing that to myself already.
Shelby 9/23/21 11:33pm
 
I get where you're coming from I do. But I already have this voice in my head telling me that it's all me and that things are not going to get better. Nobody asked you to read these nobody asked you to have the answer. I come here so maybe someone someday will relate to my story. Idk why I come here but I do know when I read your replies to me it just depresses the ever living fuck out of me because you tell me things that I already know about myself. I get where you're coming from, but it's just misdirected and generally just makes me feel a lot worse about myself than when I started. I'm sorry I can't just figure it out like you want me to trust me I wish I'd do all the things that you'd tell me to do but for some reason I'm just THAT fuckin dumb. So I get it. But I'm telling you. You're doing way more hurt than you are helping by telling me a worst possible outcome of a scenario I have already thought through 3,000 times in the last 24 hours. If beating myself up and telling myself to "just do it" was the answer I most certainly wouldn't have to come here to write about it because I've already spent 27 long hard years of doing that to myself already.
Shelby 9/23/21 11:33pm
OK. Fair enough. You say you have a voice in your head telling you that you are never going to get better. I'm sure you have other voices telling you that you want a new life. You can pick which voice you listen too. I thought maybe a little anger might motivate you and it did motivate you to write me back which you have never done before. So I guess I motivated you to do at least that. You posted in a forum on a regular thread which means it shows up when one reads the threads. You didn't make it a blog, which actually has to be looked for. So naturally it is there every day and since you post daily it shows up as recent activity.

You aren't dumb. Far from it. You just want to think you are so you don't have to change. You want to just do what you want to do and hope the consequences go away. I'm not the one depressing the ever living fuck out of you. You are doing that to yourself but won't seek help for it. You want someone like you to come along and relate to you and tell you that it's ok to continue in your current lifestyle because hey after all I'm dumb and can't help myself. I read your thread because I care about you. Even though you don't care about yourself.

I'm not the one "doing way more harm to you by this post " That's on you. You just don't like the posts that don't agree with you or put a big ol' heart on it. The ones that tell it like it is are not welcome as they invade your comfort zone. I get it. You think I was any different than you are? You think I like to see people throwing their life away? You think I don't have anything better to do than try and help an internet stranger?

I said all I had to and you aren't receptive to any change. You can write another 13 pages about your life and maybe someday it will all click and you will say....Well, Pumpkin was a real bitch but she did care and she did try to help. Do yourself a solid and call an MD. You need some mood stabilizers and maybe an antidepressant. Don't wait until it is too late.

I shall bother you no more. But I do care, as many on here do, so I wish you Godspeed.
 
Another thing.. I kinda feel like maybe I should move this to the smart recovery website on their forums like I really appriciate the input here and everything but idk I wonder what kind of feedback I would have over there. I might start a thread over there and copy/paste what I have here over there for like a few days to see what kind of input I get over there and to see if anybody can help me over there. If I do decide to stay over there I will leave a link with how to get there on here.
You're not getting comments here anymore because its the same stuff over and over lately and for a while now. You're trying to pull a geographic by going to another web site -- to get more replies methinks. Its become more about crying for attention than recovery. Don't mean to be mean, is what it is, and I hope for the best for you.
 
I feel so stressed out about money. Idk what to do.
A job that you stick with maybe?

You might want to try disability. Good chance you'd qualify. If your 1st application is denied (which is the majority case) you can find a law firm that specializes in this, at no cost to you other than a % of your 1st check, that will do an appeal for you. You got nothing to lose.
 
Ok. You know what. I'm good on this. I'm glad that I got out what I needed to get out in the time I was here, but being bullied into recovery isn't the answer, I hope you remember that for the next poor soul that doesn't dance in the way you think they should, but I doubt you will.

Peace, assholes. Go find your entertainment somewhere else.
 
You don't get to lay the blame on us. You weren't bullied one iota. You were given really excellent advice and just chose not to take it. BL tries to really help people but some just can't be helped by words alone. It takes medical intervention to get the mental health people need and we can't make the phone calls for you. You wanted BL to hold your hand and tell you everything you were doing was okay because hey, at least you were trying. And at first you were trying. That's when you were getting all the encouragement. Then you decided that it was just all too much work to do rehab and get a job so where does that leave us?

You may get people to coddle you in your Facebook group but BL people are much more educated and take a harder line when it comes to real recovery. WE know just how bad the shit gets. And we did try and help you. But in the long run only people can help themselves and we could write on here all day until the cows come home but this is all on you. And only you. You don't get to blame us.

And nobody on here was using you for their " entertainment ". You chose to put yourself out there and you got some really good advice. Nobody on here ever wanted to see you fail. This is all on you. Just because you want to continue abusing meth and not get a job doesn't make us the assholes, now does it.
 
Shame, I checked this thread every time there was a new post, for a while you really did seem like you were going to do it, but the last 4 pages stopped being a recovery diary and became more of a list of negative choices and misplaced blame. You should keep posting imo writing helped you during the bad parts at the beginning, it can do it now too.

Hope that one day when you're clean and in a good position, you can come back and re-read all this and see that no one bullied you and perhaps you could help see someone else through their road to recovery, with the added perspective of being in their position.
 
Just recently realized I hadn't seen one of Shelby's posts in a while, and came back a couple pages and read what happened most recently.

We have to maintain a balance in here, and sometimes you have to be careful with how much truth you offer to people. Some are only able to receive so much in one dose before it starts feeling like an attack.

I hate to see people leave TDS. And I'm not blaming anyone in here. I just hope maybe this can be a learning experience for everyone.

Maybe, just maybe, if things weren't put to him quite as bluntly, he could've stuck around and heard something further that helped him out of his rut. Or maybe he would've stormed off either way. It's hard to tell.

I wasn't always really here to respond to a lot of his posts, because in all honesty it was a bit tl;Dr and I can only keep up with so much stuff. You guys picked up the slack and I think everyone did the best they could and you guys were here for him, whether he believed it or not.

This isn't an indictment on anyone, far from it, you gave him great advice. I just think we have to be a little more measured in how much tough love we give in TDS, some people are really only ready to hear so much. Discerning how much is very tricky, but it has to be done if we're going to be effective in TDS.
 
I know I'm the one that chased him off and I'm not proud of it. Sometimes my age and experience makes me think with my mind and not my heart.

I was doing good for about 7 pages and then I kind of got frustrated and told him exactly what I thought.

Just because I would be able to handle the hard truth doesn't mean that he could as well. I can understand why he felt the way he did after I read my posts again just now. Obviously I let my frustrations about his lack of effort cloud exactly what I was trying to help him with. Methinks my own emotions muddied up the waters.

Not my finest hour. @slw0363 . Ya wanna come back and give me a second chance? :watpepe:
 
I know I'm the one that chased him off and I'm not proud of it. Sometimes my age and experience makes me think with my mind and not my heart.

I was doing good for about 7 pages and then I kind of got frustrated and told him exactly what I thought.

Just because I would be able to handle the hard truth doesn't mean that he could as well. I can understand why he felt the way he did after I read my posts again just now. Obviously I let my frustrations about his lack of effort cloud exactly what I was trying to help him with. Methinks my own emotions muddied up the waters.

Not my finest hour. @slw0363 . Ya wanna come back and give me a second chance? :watpepe:
Nah, you made a commendable effort and it's never gonna be a perfect science. Human emotions are fickle like that.
 
GUESS WHO'S MOTHER FUCKIN BACK BITCHES 😂 So it comes to my attention there's some motherfuckers out there that could use a story like mine. Who are those motherfuckers? Fuck if I know, but if there's a single person on planet earth who will be able to use my story to better figure themselves out or at least if there's a single person who can look at my story and say "well at least he's a good example of what not to be and so I won't be like that" and then they go off and make different better choices than I did, then I feel like it was worth it. Plus... And it took me awhile to grow into this mindset... I was getting more out of writing and being able to process my emotions based on what I wrote down. At first I had a lot of anger towards this site I was like "these motherfuckers trying to control me" and I still kinda feel that way like legitimately fuck you from the very bottom of my heart for making me feel like I should just be getting anything at all. I'm glad it came so easy for you but guess what there's some motherfuckers out here much like myself who still fucking struggle even if you think that the answer is right in front of my face, even if you think I'm being whiney, even if you get bored of what I have to say. Fuck you for that, by the way, if you don't get how I don't see something that is obvious to you, that's fine. Guess what? I don't care.

So let's make this simple. You're just along on this ride with me. You can say literally whatever you what to say, but I will not be giving what you have to say weight unless it actually serves purpose for what I need in the moment. You can say what you want and you might be a hero for saying it in the moment but now you're playing my rules so if I don't get it, then I don't get it. My journey in this life isn't for you to be entertained by or understand, but if I have a question or need help. I'll ask.
I got a lot to fill you guys in on.
Yes I have used in the last 24 hours.
Yes sobriety is still a goal. But we're gonna take this day by day. When I started this I did really well because I was honest as fuck and I was getting things out that needed to be gotten out. So we're gonna start over again. And this time: sobriety or not, it's gonna be better. I don't give a FUCK if you're entertained or not though you can get the fuck right out of here with that bullshit.

Now I'm going to sleep I gotta be at my job in 3 hours 😂

I'll be back on here tomorrow.

Night, bitches.
Shelby 2/5/22 2:36am
 
Welcome back Shelby. Sorry to hear you are still using. Interesting that you un-deleted your thread after deleting it a few months ago because Bluelight wasn't giving you what you needed. Anybody willing to go back and read all 14 pages will see that many, many members on here tried to help you and you ignored and berated all of us.

Just a word of warning. As you know, and anyone can see, I was one of the members that posted every single day to help you. I took my time and was quite honest with you on what you were doing wrong and gave you pointers to help yourself. I am now a mod on this forum....unlike when you were here before. Coming back after 3 months and calling us all mother fuckers and bitches isn't going to fly. At all. Saying that we didn't try and help you won't fly. Saying fuck you to me isn't going to fly. And I assure you we are NOT playing by your rules.

So....let's make this simple. IF you want to post about your HEALTH and RECOVERY from meth that is all well and good. We will TRY and help you again. If you just want to use this place to go on stim fueled rants about how we failed you I can assure you I will delete your posts and infract you if you cross the line. Totally up to you.

Welcome back to Bluelight. Proceed cautiously. Oh and by the way...my name used to be Pumpkin 2021.
 
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