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Anorexia

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Question For the Truly Recovered
Posted: 09-19-05 23:44pm

Hi,

i have a question for those of you who have successfully quit using whatever substance you were at some point addicted to and so for now a very long time.

Weither it was a highly physically addictive substance or not so much physically but psychologically addictive substance (please specify type of addiction and/or drug, if it's ok with you), did your success on quitting have something to do with and emotional problem you had that you might have been aware or unaware of? What I mean is, was your drug use addiction some sort of a symptom to a deeper issue that you dealing with it allow you to permanently quit?

I am wondering for myself what makes me so stupid to have picked up snorting cocaine again, and I know I have some issues to resolve, so i'm wondering if they are related...

Sharing your experience or opinions on this matter would be highly appreciated,

thanks,


anakind
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shadowalker164

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Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 175
Location: Tampa, FL

Posted: 09-20-05 16:44pm

Anathe
as far as I can tell, it’s always the case that our drug addiction/alcoholism is but a symptom of a larger underlying problem.

Sure our doping and drinking has caused us enormous hardship, but like you said, “what makes me so stupid to have picked up snorting cocaine again” I have my ideas on why we do things like that. The short answer is we want to be buzzed more than we want to be clean and sober.

If just getting the stuff out of our systems was the answer, detoxes and treatment centers, having gotten us about as dry as we will ever be, would graduate 100% success stories.

But they don’t. Why is that?

But to answer your other question, by the eight of next month, it will have been seven years for me without a drink, not even a little one when no one was watching, doing it one day at a time.

Richard
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Anorexia

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Congrats!
Posted: 09-27-05 18:41pm

Hi richard,

congratulations for your 7 years sober!!! I hope you feel great and that you no longer even get cravings or desires to drink!

So did successfully quitting require resolving an underlining issue for you? If so, how did you manage to find out what that issue was?
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marylee humphrey

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Recovery And Suboxone
Posted: 11-13-05 12:07pm

I was addicted to heroin for 10 years. Then I went to methadone.. I got off of that finally,,, but what I found out was that I have depression.... And I need to be on something.. So I found out about suboxone.. It is a well kept secret....... Of coarse methadone clinics never tell you about this medication because they want you to keep paying them.. Look it up online.. Only certain doctors can prescribe this, as they need to take a class... But may I tell you that it has saved my life.. I can now get out of bed every day and actually want to live.. Wowowo.. Is there anyone else who uses this med?

Ml
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ROBSPACE1

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Never Heard of It-
Posted: 11-13-05 20:36pm

If it works keep it-is it a s.R.I-antidepressant?--it seems to me that it's a roll of the dice with any mind altering drugs-they all work different on everybody-most of those are too speedy for me; like effecsor-i switched to wellbutrin-not so shaky-as far as the mental health connection-(bad choice of words) goes-you guys are right-after going in and out of treatment for years; I ffinnaly figured it was time to get to the real underling problem and find out why I was inadvertantley trying hard to kill myself with cocaine injections every day and drinking whiskey like a fish-bad mix!--well now that all my family and friends have died from substance abuse; it don't take a rocket scientist to figure out that I was next-there is not easy way to quit-but thee are things that can be done to make it less attractive and prevent relapse--1-stay way away from old using friends-any of them-say goodbye-any time I ever relapsed it was because I continued hanging with my drunken-doping partners-cocaine is way too strong to allow that to happen-too stay clean in that scene
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ROBSPACE1

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Joined: 30 Oct 2005
Posts: 14
Never Heard of It-
Posted: 11-13-05 20:36pm

If it works keep it-is it a s.R.I-antidepressant?--it seems to me that it's a roll of the dice with any mind altering drugs-they all work different on everybody-most of those are too speedy for me; like effecsor-i switched to wellbutrin-not so shaky-as far as the mental health connection-(bad choice of words) goes-you guys are right-after going in and out of treatment for years; I ffinnaly figured it was time to get to the real underling problem and find out why I was inadvertantley trying hard to kill myself with cocaine injections every day and drinking whiskey like a fish-bad mix!--well now that all my family and friends have died from substance abuse; it don't take a rocket scientist to figure out that I was next-there is not easy way to quit-but thee are things that can be done to make it less attractive and prevent relapse--1-stay way away from old using friends-any of them-say goodbye-any time I ever relapsed it was because I continued hanging with my drunken-doping partners-cocaine is way too strong to allow that to happen-too stay clean in that scene
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ROBSPACE1

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Re: Question For the Truly Recovered
Posted: 11-13-05 20:58pm

anorexia wrote:
hi,

i have a question for those of you who have successfully quit using whatever substance you were at some point addicted to and so for now a very long time.


Weither it was a highly physically addictive substance or not so much physically but psychologically addictive substance (please specify type of addiction and/or drug, if it's ok with you), did your success on quitting have something to do with and emotional problem you had that you might have been aware or unaware of? What I mean is, was your drug use addiction some sort of a symptom to a deeper issue that you dealing with it allow you to permanently quit?


I am wondering for myself what makes me so stupid to have picked up snorting cocaine again, and I know I have some issues to resolve, so i'm wondering if they are related...


Sharing your experience or opinions on this matter would be highly appreciated,

thanks,---anorexia-yes doing drugs and alcohol only serve one purpose; to avoid dealing with life's problems; which can be very overwhelming at times-i used for 37 years-i was a pro at avoiding problems' pain'lonliness etc-the drugs and booze all do a good job of covering it all up for awhile; the problem is; eventually it catches up to us-the body and mind can only handle so many years of abuse-to avoid difficult times and problems is living a lie and makes re-adjustment harder to do-the longer you hide the harder it is to be found-i have been clean 4 years and I get very lonely at times-i had to leave everyone to save myself-but-the payback is that I look in the mirror now and like what looks back-my eyes are clear and my mind is sharp again-i also started seeing a therapist about a year ago and take anti-depressants--to stay clean means to identify and deal with any long buried anger-guilt etc.-we all have it-i am also taking pain meds-morphine and vicoden-but ya know what ?-i don't like them-in fact I always do less then prescibed-i have completely lost the urge to get high-it's nice to see all those little blue pills just sit there-5 years ago they would'nt have just sat there!--it is nice to have money again-to wake up in the morning with the sun instead of closing the blinds-food-air-everything just feels much better and my sole feels cleaner-cocaine ties the mind up into a jumbled mess of indecision and paranoia-sucks!--good luck getting and staying clean-if ya need support feel free to post to me-it does get better!


Anakind
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ROBSPACE1

New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 30 Oct 2005
Posts: 14
Re: Question For the Truly Recovered
Posted: 11-13-05 20:58pm

anorexia wrote:
hi,

i have a question for those of you who have successfully quit using whatever substance you were at some point addicted to and so for now a very long time.


Weither it was a highly physically addictive substance or not so much physically but psychologically addictive substance (please specify type of addiction and/or drug, if it's ok with you), did your success on quitting have something to do with and emotional problem you had that you might have been aware or unaware of? What I mean is, was your drug use addiction some sort of a symptom to a deeper issue that you dealing with it allow you to permanently quit?


I am wondering for myself what makes me so stupid to have picked up snorting cocaine again, and I know I have some issues to resolve, so i'm wondering if they are related...


Sharing your experience or opinions on this matter would be highly appreciated,

thanks,---anorexia-yes doing drugs and alcohol only serve one purpose; to avoid dealing with life's problems; which can be very overwhelming at times-i used for 37 years-i was a pro at avoiding problems' pain'lonliness etc-the drugs and booze all do a good job of covering it all up for awhile; the problem is; eventually it catches up to us-the body and mind can only handle so many years of abuse-to avoid difficult times and problems is living a lie and makes re-adjustment harder to do-the longer you hide the harder it is to be found-i have been clean 4 years and I get very lonely at times-i had to leave everyone to save myself-but-the payback is that I look in the mirror now and like what looks back-my eyes are clear and my mind is sharp again-i also started seeing a therapist about a year ago and take anti-depressants--to stay clean means to identify and deal with any long buried anger-guilt etc.-we all have it-i am also taking pain meds-morphine and vicoden-but ya know what ?-i don't like them-in fact I always do less then prescibed-i have completely lost the urge to get high-it's nice to see all those little blue pills just sit there-5 years ago they would'nt have just sat there!--it is nice to have money again-to wake up in the morning with the sun instead of closing the blinds-food-air-everything just feels much better and my sole feels cleaner-cocaine ties the mind up into a jumbled mess of indecision and paranoia-sucks!--good luck getting and staying clean-if ya need support feel free to post to me-it does get better!


Anakind
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