Anyone struggle with addiction?

[AnthonyW]

Been around this forum for a year but never post. I struggle with chemical dependency. I had to sit 4months in jail this year because of my drinking and i lost my apartment and licence/car. So it's been full scale regression.

I'm trying not to focus on women rn because my life is a mess.

I wanted to reach out to anyone with similar experiences and possibly touch base with them and gain their perspective.

 

[wifehunter]

Been around this forum for a year but never post. I struggle with chemical dependency. I had to sit 4months in jail this year because of my drinking and i lost my apartment and licence/car. So it's been full scale regression.

I'm trying not to focus on women rn because my life is a mess.

I wanted to reach out to anyone with similar experiences and possibly touch base with them and gain their perspective.

I've been with out a drink and smoke or smokes, for a year a five months.

Only God could help me, and he did.

 

[RangerMIke]

I was addicted to pain meds when I was recovering from a roadside bomb attack. Yea it really sucks. AA Helps, been clean for 8 years, I go to meetings once a week or so. I still drink, but don't get drunk, I stick with red wine only and will not drink more than two glasses a night. Shoot me a PM anytime. But you MUST get clean.

 

[sazc]

Meth, when I was in my early 20's for half a year. OMG i was so paranoid asbout everything! Riddic when i look back. I wanted to be skinny. Thank god I had a supportive family and good upbringing. A stint in rehab got me clean and made me realize - i could be an addict and travel that path (no bueno) or I could clean up and get a real life.
I cleaned up, eventually landed in college, and have made a great life for myself.

Everyones story and background is differernt. May I gently suggest AA? Find yourself a sponsor and work the program. You have a lot to offer this world if you will allow yourself to do so. AA works if you work it. I've seen the miracles first hand. Good luck my friend.

 

[logicallefty]

Several years ago I was hitting 10 beers a night easily plus sometimes more beers on weekends. I enrolled myself into AA and it was a complete load of bull. I can't factually say that all AA programs are bull, but this one was.

I was headed for the bottom but I snapped myself out of it. Took care of a lot of issues in life that were stressing me. Got rid of some people who I drank with a lot and people who caused me stress.. I got smarter about my selections in women. Woman I am with now doesn't drink at all, ever. Bought a new house in the location of my dreams which gave me a positive change in environment and that helped a lot. Took up some new hobbies. I still go to bars once in a great while to eat but I don't drink there. Anytime I do drink now its only at home, and it's far far less than 10 beers a night every night. Another thing I did which was weird was cut down on the Diet soda and by doing that, I found that I also had less of a desire for beer. Must be a chemical thing I don't know.

 

[RangerMIke]

I will say this about AA... yea sometimes is a bunch of horsesh!t... but for me it has always been helpful to be around people that were fvcking rock bottom and managed to crawl out of that hole.

But I will say that AA is the most effective way to get out of thag hole. Bottomline is if you don't want to change nothing work for you. You have to want to try.

 

[Scars]

I've been struggling with alcoholism even before I could legally drink. I've gone cold turkey a couple times. My longest stretch of complete sobriety being about 5 months. I noticed after that long stretch of sobriety that when I did decide to drink again, it was a lot more controlled. Sometimes it picks up and starts getting out of hand, then I just go sober again for a week or so, and it usually corrects itself. I understand this isn't the case for everyone, and if you seriously think you have a problem you should probably go to AA. I kind of regret trying to do it on my own. I probably would still be sober, or at least the experience probably would have been less uncomfortable if I had a "real" support group, instead of family that says "good job" then sips their beer right in front of me.

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

For booze you can't beat Easy Way (Alan Carr).

https://www.allencarr.com/

 

[Bible_Belt]

One of my best friends, who died in a motorcycle crash a few years ago, was a hardcore meth addict for 15 years. A group of friends moved him away from Phoenix to Illinois, where he didn't know anyone to buy meth, and gave him a place to stay and a lot of good weed to smoke. He slept for about a month, but came out of it ok, and never did meth again. He was clean for the last eight years of his life, and those were some of his best years. He got to know his teenage son for the first time and made peace with all of his family. I remember how happy he was that he had money to buy Christmas presents for his kid; that was the first time, because all his money had always gone to buy meth. He got married, and they were happy together. The crash that killed him was a freak accident, not his fault, and he was sober at the time. Getting clean let him make the most of the life that he had left.