Addicts in Recovery?

Question

I am a recovering Speed Adict. I have been clean for almost four years now. I still get the odd cravings, but have been able to resist. How do others find recovery?

Answer 1

This one is right up my alley. First congrats on your 4 years! I know it wasnt easy, oct. of 07 I'll have 5 years.Getting clean is easy as they said in the rooms. But staying clean is so damn hard sometimes. And the longer you go. It seems the harder it gets.

Let me tell you those craving are a part of us that will always be there. And you will find at times you can deal with them a hell of a lot better if you exspose them. Talk about it, till your red in the face if you have to. Use your support group!!!!!

(One addict helping another addict is without parallel)

I dont get the cravings as much anymore, but my addiction is very smart. Its not only sitting back doing push-up waiting on me to make that ONE BAD DECISION. It manifests itself in my life in other ways. I'll be driving down the street, and I'll see a spot, like only us addicts can. What pops in my head ? "That ould be a good spot to get high".!!!!! I will denounce the thought right there on the spot!!!

Man I could go on forever about this but..... Craving are gonna come.THEY WILL GO TOO!!!!!!!!! Remember where you came from. Better yet, remember the last time you got high. Then ask yourself when it was all over how did you feel? Do You want to feel like that right now?

Final Thoughts:

"The bullsh** of life ran use into the rooms, dont let life run you out of the rooms".

Cause after all, every thing that we have worked so hard to achieve, and acheived!!!!! Can still fit in the head of a pipe, needle, or what ever vice we used. With that I'll keep coming back!

Answer 2

wow, if you ask this of ten different people, you'll get ten different answers.

I kicked and was clean for six years following the birth of my son. I guess my recovery came from having someone else that I had to "be there" for - and these women who get high while pregnant make me sick. I felt I was stronger than that, and that my baby didn't do drugs.

While I've fallen off the wagon a few times since then, overall I think that the quality of a person's life has a lot to do with it.

Answer 3

I'm not an addict of anything like that, but congratulations on staying clean!!! :D I need to go into some sorta therapy for my anorexia, but I'm in an inbetween stage where I want to, yet I don't. Good for you for getting help!