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[txbondsman]

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I am a recovering drug addict. I have 17 months clean.

good for you, keep us informed and please share you experiences, especially if you see a thread started by someone who is in trouble....

 

[txbondsman]

Re: substance abuse group, New Beginings, for anyone who is experiencing problems due

i have used, prescription pills, heroin, and cocaine on and off for 3 years, I found that lifting weights is the only thing that comes close to giving me that feeling of escape I need so much. I've experimented with a lot of drugs, and the rush I get while lifting makes me feel so good. I also feel good about myself I'm really finding Im just as addicted to this as I am to anything else.

not uncommon at all, we just have an addictive personality. I used to tell the groups I had at the rehab I volunteered in, "Hell, I get addicted to everything, good OR bad."

Lifting or running, whatever became just as much a compulsion as drugs/alcohol. It's all about self perception...

 

[txbondsman]

Re: substance abuse group, New Beginings, for anyone who is experiencing problems due

Gonna be 5 months sober nov 4.Alcohol really snuck up and kick the shit outta me.Lookin at 60 days county time here shortly.
Fuck it i'm sober training hard again and feel great.

Rust NEVER sleeps, always be on guard for the triggers that made you go off the last time. The 60 days will keep your attention for awhile, not long, but long enough for you to get through the trouble spot. You'll have to decide if living the way your living now, trainging, feelong good, etc is the way you wamt to stay or is it just till probation gets off your back.
Your a really good dude, pick sobreity, you'll never regret giving up a few parties here and there. trust me...

 

[needtogetaas]

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bump

 

[the elite addict]

Re: substance abuse group, New Beginings, for anyone who is experiencing problems due

Rust NEVER sleeps, always be on guard for the triggers that made you go off the last time. The 60 days will keep your attention for awhile, not long, but long enough for you to get through the trouble spot. You'll have to decide if living the way your living now, trainging, feelong good, etc is the way you wamt to stay or is it just till probation gets off your back.
Your a really good dude, pick sobreity, you'll never regret giving up a few parties here and there. trust me...

I agree. As much as I hate to say this, doing my 6 month bid was a blessing. I was way outa control. I had a serious drug addiction that began to ruin every aspect of my life.

 

[txbondsman]

Re: substance abuse group, New Beginings, for anyone who is experiencing problems due

I agree. As much as I hate to say this, doing my 6 month bid was a blessing. I was way outa control. I had a serious drug addiction that began to ruin every aspect of my life.

yep, it can and often is a blessing, one that isn't visible till your looking from the other side...

I was told by our district judge, "you can kill yourself if you want, but I'm ot going to let you kill your family too.(mentally)" He was/is a good friend of mine. He told me that I needed to find a way to stop drinking, OR he had a place to put me that it was harder to get alcohol. I knew what he meant and he wasn't playing. He'd have done it.

That's when i felt the motivation to get help. I thought so I just didn't go to prison, that was my first thought. I went to a rehab and was pissed everyday for weeks. It wasn't till I had been there for some time that I really realized that my life was better, I wasn't as depressed, etc. That's when i realized that there was alot of things happening for me other than not going to prison. But, I didn't see it until I was on the other side of it all....

It felt so good and I saw others getting better, that I volunteered for over two years at the place....

 

[Spartacus]

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7 years ago to the day I started drinking again after almost 9 years sober

 

[Spartacus]

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[Spartacus]

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change
Courage to change the things I can
And the wisdom to know the difference

I am not like I was before
I thought that nothing would change me
I was not listening anymore
Still you continued to affect me

I was not thinking anymore
Although I said I still was
I'd said "I don't want anymore"
Because of bad experience

But now I feel so different
I feel so different
I feel so different

I have not seen freedom before
And I did not expect to
Don't let me forget now I'm here
Help me to help you to behold you

I started off with many friends
And we spent a long time talking
I thought they meant every word they said
But like everyone else they were stalling

And now they seem so different
They seem so different
They seem so different

I should have hatred for you
But I do not have any
And I have always loved you
Oh you have taught me plenty

The whole time I'd never seen
All you had spread before me
The whole time I'd never seen
All I'd need was inside me

Now I feel so different
I feel so different
I feel so different

I feel so different
I feel so different

 

[walliwalibus]

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Its good to see you giving him the backing on this bro. Tx is offering this to help people. Addiction is nothing to joke about or look down on. I am a addict myself. I recovering addict but still a addict for the rest of my life.

Its a disease and most people don't understand this. Its like having aids. Your stuck with it the rest of your life. People make it hard to admit it. No one wants to admit they are flawed and need help. I admit it and I get help everyday with it.

Ef helps me

This is so true...... I am an addict, but have stopped now for about 15 yrs.... I have no desire to every get back to where I was. It flat out sucked....

And EF helps me too.....