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All I want to do is stop!!!
by Just one more, Jul 06, 2007 12:00AM
If you've ever done Coke, you'll understand my nickname. It's a joke my girlfriend and I had. It's not really funny to me anymore.
I've always had a problem with drugs, but didn't realize it. When I was a teenager I lived in Montana and I got really hooked on Crank. I let that stuff a little over two years of my life. So my best friend and I got a ball and drove down to Florida. That ball lasted until Illinois where we made a pit stop. We made it there in one day. We slept for three days, cause we hadn't slept for about two weeks. An hour on the road after we left I fell asleep on the interstat doing about 85, half of my car went off the road and woke me up, when I turned my wheel to get on the road, my car started to spin. Thank got nothing happened, we should have died that day.
We made it the rest of the way to Florida and it was perfect, you couldn't find Crank back then, so my friend and I kicked the habbit. I'm not going to lie to you, once you're hooked, you'll always remember the feeling of it. But you'll also remember what you went thru to get off of it.
Now to my real problem. It has been about ten years sense those days, and I started doing Coke about a month before meeting my girlfriend, who is now my baby's momma. We've been together for one year and six months, which makes it easy to remember how long I've been doing coke. In that time the longest break we took was three weeks. She's got a bigger problem than I do, it seems that way atleast. I've noticed that it is really easy for me to say no to coke when she really wants it.
I guess what I'm looking for is some advice on how to quit without moving away from this place and starting over new, not knowing anyone, or my what I'm affraid of it comeing to is me leaving her, so I can kick the habbit myself.
I'm glad I found this site, Now that I think of it, I've always heard this saying but never beilived it. The first step to recovery is admitting that you do have a problem. And I do have a problem with coccain.
I've always had a problem with drugs, but didn't realize it. When I was a teenager I lived in Montana and I got really hooked on Crank. I let that stuff a little over two years of my life. So my best friend and I got a ball and drove down to Florida. That ball lasted until Illinois where we made a pit stop. We made it there in one day. We slept for three days, cause we hadn't slept for about two weeks. An hour on the road after we left I fell asleep on the interstat doing about 85, half of my car went off the road and woke me up, when I turned my wheel to get on the road, my car started to spin. Thank got nothing happened, we should have died that day.
We made it the rest of the way to Florida and it was perfect, you couldn't find Crank back then, so my friend and I kicked the habbit. I'm not going to lie to you, once you're hooked, you'll always remember the feeling of it. But you'll also remember what you went thru to get off of it.
Now to my real problem. It has been about ten years sense those days, and I started doing Coke about a month before meeting my girlfriend, who is now my baby's momma. We've been together for one year and six months, which makes it easy to remember how long I've been doing coke. In that time the longest break we took was three weeks. She's got a bigger problem than I do, it seems that way atleast. I've noticed that it is really easy for me to say no to coke when she really wants it.
I guess what I'm looking for is some advice on how to quit without moving away from this place and starting over new, not knowing anyone, or my what I'm affraid of it comeing to is me leaving her, so I can kick the habbit myself.
I'm glad I found this site, Now that I think of it, I've always heard this saying but never beilived it. The first step to recovery is admitting that you do have a problem. And I do have a problem with coccain.
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when something controls me, and my life i hate it, freedom from 'active' addiction is what i want.
sounds like you do also,
its easy-er to substitute one thing for another, but if we do that the 'freedom' we desire is still not ours.
healing / recovery is about our whole life. every area.
sounds to me like your tired of what addiction has to offer,
and are looking for something new?
I have always chosen my circle of "friends" to be a small. select group. Certain ones truly "know" about my addiction issues. I guess this circle is considered "work associates". I have found in life, u cant tell everyone, everything about you and not be judged.
I am recovering, and in therapy. It is so hard facing those demons, cause they took years to develop into the LARGE monsters they are today. I have learned through therapy and NA/AA that I cant do just one anymore, of anything, that includes alcohol. It is a struggle for me right now, because I am having to face consequences for my use, after getting sober.
Your baby needs his/her parent's (BOTH OF YOU). My children have serious issues because their biological dad is in prison for drugs. Good luck my friend, and let me know if I can be of any assistance