Why did you start doing drugs or started drinking?
what motivated you to get off of drugs and to stop drinking?
How long were you using drugs before you stopped?
2007-09-30 01:31:50 · 19 answers · asked by What'd You Say? 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Yes. Sober 9 years. This doesn't mean I'm a "former" alcoholic, though; it simply means I'm sober.
I started drinking at 13.
I stopped drinking because my life was sheer hell and I couldn't take it anymore.
I drank for 25 years.
2007-09-30 03:34:06 · answer #1 · answered by Helen W. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use to do drugs and drink a lot, but I wasn't a drug addict nor an alcoholic because I could stop when I wanted. I started because it made me feel better when I felt depressed.
I stopped because it made me feel weak, as in I had to rely on something other than myself to get through life. I was my own motivation.
Took me about 2-3 years until I realized I wanted to stop.
2007-09-30 02:03:16 · answer #2 · answered by BM 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I started doing things like that to attempt to fill a void in my life. I always said people do things like that cause something is missing from their lives. A job, spouse, money, whatever.. It's cause people want to feel good instead of dwelling on what they consider a negative situation in their lives. What motivated me wasn't the 7 years in jail I did or the threat of going back. What motivated me after 14 years of using was that I finally looked at my life and realized that it revolved around using. That's not me. I want to be about something. I haven't had a drink in almost a year now! And I don't miss it cause my life has meaning in other areas. It didn't at first, but kick the drugs, be about something, ANYTHING, and I promise you won't be sad anymore. GOOD LUCK.
2007-09-30 01:41:46 · answer #3 · answered by faqumanbarry 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO but I work in drug alcohol rehab, and have family members that are addicted.
A lot of people I know started because their friends were doing it. Honestly
Most because they have legal problems or have been seperated from their family.
Most of them for at least 20yr or so.
2007-09-30 01:36:26 · answer #4 · answered by staymay 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I started out a social user, when I could see that it was starting to tear my life apart I gave up the party life. The most motivating factor was what will my children and grandchildren think of me!
2007-09-30 01:37:49 · answer #5 · answered by want2flybye 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All through my 20's I was a weekend party girl and drank alcohol,
to excess,at 30 a Dr. told me if I didn't quit I'd die within a few years due to liver damage...I'm 51 now ,so I chose to live..=)
2007-09-30 01:38:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My husband is the alcoholic. Sober 16 years. He drank for 40 years
He started drinking to cope with life and problems, and after we met, realized his higher power (GOD) could help him with life and his problems and God took the craving for alcohol away.
This illness is hereditary, his father and cousins are (were,they are now deceased) alcoholics. His siblings could be, but they saw what it did to him and their father, so they don't touch it
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2007-09-30 01:40:21 · answer #7 · answered by dapperdudet 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
have done both but those seem small compared to some of the other crappy things i've done....
have the best guardian angels in the world and the Lord's advise to follow...
though i skip down the path a bit.....
2007-09-30 01:52:33 · answer #8 · answered by blueJean 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't drink or use drugs, so I am neither one.
2007-09-30 01:37:18 · answer #9 · answered by barbwire 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
was a dealer & sampled the drugs once too often
my son's birth
about 15yrs
2007-09-30 01:37:41 · answer #10 · answered by MJR 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋