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Learning to live again.. is it possible??

Oct 10, 2008 07:56PM - 12 comments

I cannot for the life of me understand how people tolerate life after being on drugs for so long.  I guess I forgot how miserable life was because Ive been high for so long.  I never 'FELT' high the 2 years on sub, but I guess I must have been because being clean has turned on a BIG BRIGHT FLOURESCENT LIGHT and Im looking around thinking yuck, WTF is this life all about.  Seeing all the paint of my life peeling and the cracks in the foundation of my entire being.  I know I am being impatient and I have to give it time.  In my mind I know that.  I also know that all the years of use combined with the sub and the wicked hold the sub had on me, I am probably a little more than slightly damaged in the chemical/brain area.. so I dont trust everything I feel as truth.  However I am completely and thoroughly disgusted with life.  I really thought I had this perfect little life, perfect relationship, perfect friends.  I hate everyone now.  Literally can't stand them.  Obviously not my son, who is indeed close to a perfect child -- I am so lucky in that.  Must have done something right there.. but everything else.. How do you maintain a relationship with someone when you are miserable and unhappy and sad and cannot find joy in anything and this person is looking at you and wanting to know what is wrong and why cant he make you happy and why cant he make you smile.. and you WANT to say because Im fu*cked in the head and I feel like a stranger to you even though we've shared this bed for almost 10 years but what you actually say is I dont know, maybe your not good enough and you've failed me.  And you feel bad but you think maybe they did but what your really just angry because they cant make you happy and you know its because you are fu*cked in the head and for some reason you HATE him because your so f'd.   And I dont know the reason.  I don't know if perhaps I have been high since we met so maybe I really dont like him all that much.  He isnt the easiest person to live with... it has taken a long time to become cohesive but now Ive gone and changed it alll and did I ever really love him or was I just high all the time or am I just self sabatoging right now because subconsciously my head is still pissed off I took its meds away.. and I have no idea what to think so the only thing I can say for sure is that I will do nothing on impulse because I do not trust anything I feel.  

And your trying to talk to your close friends and you wonder why you have so many close friends and your really cannot come up with one reason why these people even like you because they seem so good and you are so f'd in the head and they are talking and your pretending to listen but you hear nothing because you cant focus on one thing they are saying to you and your still wondering why does this person like a piece of **** like me.. because lets face it looks are very deceiving.  I can look one way and pretend to be something and put up a great show and act but underneath it all, under the fake pretty-girl ********, I am truly just an ugly junkie and its a fight every second of my life not to look for a cold dark floor to sit on and make love to a bag of heroine.   And it KILLS me because most people will NEVER know this about me or my thoughts and I think maybe they are just stupid because I feel I am so transparant but I know its just because I am so good at playing the game and putting on the act and unless I told them they will never know.

You think to yourself ok this situation is bad.  I am bad.  I must get control.  I am living in the dark right now being owned by this addiction.  So you get clean and you think that life will fall into place and  you will get a much deserved "And they all lived happily ever after" But then you come out of the dark and are kind of reminded why you liked the dark so much anyway and you really want to go back into that comforting darkness because you know it, its familiar and everyone usually whispers in the dark..

So I am sitting here feeling utterly alone with all these thoughts which I am not use to because while using I dont think I thought much about anything.  And life is going on around me as usual.  My son is with his super grade A perfect father for the weekend and my partner is miserable and angry because I am miserable and angry and I cant not be miserable and angry and I really dont give a **** how he feels about it, but I know thats wrong but I still dont give a ****.  I am realizing I am more lost than ever.  And it feels so cliche.. like a bad movie that I find myself starring in.. and even saying that feels cliche and stupid.  But I have no idea how to act or react or what I want or what, if anything will ever make me happy again.  I know its not drugs.  I know relapse is not in my future.  I can barely remember back to a time when I was unexposed to drugs and I am trying to call upon that to get right and remember how life is good and can be good but Im struggling to remember.  I still have faith though.  And hope.  I really hope this stuff has a way of working itself out.  

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by brock1976, Oct 11, 2008 07:51AM
me too.  how is a sober life a life worth living in my state of mind.  

by brock1976, Oct 11, 2008 08:22AM
its hard i know.  drugs are gone but booze is killin me.

by xru11, Oct 11, 2008 08:25AM
Hey RB!

You are beautiful inside and out!  That's no illusion, that's no game,   how many people have you helped out on this site?

by learning2befree, Oct 11, 2008 09:07AM
you just wrote my every thought that I could not out into words YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!!

by OXY_FREE, Oct 11, 2008 10:32AM
Hi
Im new here,But I have alot of insite on subutex and suboxone,so if you dont mind me asking
how lond have you been off the sub meds.
        things will get better,OXY

by refusingbondage, Oct 11, 2008 01:25PM
Thanks everyone. I almost didnt post this -- its vulnerable and its not like me to be that way, but I needed to get it out and this forum is the only place that I can go with this stuff as no one I know could tolerate it or accept it as truth.  I am presuming at this point that my head is just trying to get right and this will be a long process.  I also know I have a tendency to be impatient and Im going to try to work on it.  Oxy_Free - its been 37 days since my last sub dose.  

by OXY_FREE, Oct 11, 2008 01:39PM
thanks for your comment on my journal... rambling incoherent thoughts sometimes

I am 37 days off subs.   Spent almost 2 years on them.   You know alot about them??   My biggest wonder is how long until the darkness lifts?   I am not as depressed as I was say 15 days ago.. no where near that but I still cannot control my thoughts or mood sometimes..

Thank you again..  


by OXY_FREE, Oct 11, 2008 02:00PM
Hi refusungbondage
This might be a long post..LOL
suboxone is like methadone,but has a longer half life. 1 mg of sub  = 15mg of methadone
Im not sure what mg you were on when you junped off.
The drug suboxone makes receptors in the brain that need to be filled when you stop taking the drug you have to many receptors with no endorphins to fill them,thus all the feelings you are having now...
A 21 daydetox usually yields a 3 week recovery period ( a week of paws )
A 3 to 6 monstay on subs yields 4 to 8 weeks recovery period (some paws)
A 6 mon and longer stay on subs yields a 6 to 10 weeks,recovery period ( 3 mon to 2 years of paws)
( paws= post-acute withdrawal syndrome.)
There are some things that help the brain return to normal,the biggest help i have found is exercise it really helps the brain make the endorphins,even if you start at 2 min a day and work your way up.
Every day you will be getting better it is just going to take some time.
I hate it when i here about docs leaving people on subs for a long period of time they are only ment to be a short term drug.
let me know if i can help,I have alot more info,but didden't know how much more you could stand today.
talk to ya soon,OXY


by Traci298, Oct 11, 2008 04:17PM
I have been w/o oxy for 2 days- dr is out of town.  honestly have no illusion that i'll stop taking it yet.  still, not sure how to make it til Monday feeling like this.  

as far as life sucking, i know what you mean.  but, i am sure things just appear a lot uglier b/c your mind is in w/d along w/your body.  My biggest issue is that I have been taking lortab, then oxy for 8 yrs.  it has gotten to the point i feel i can't be "me" w/o it.  like, i have to take a pill to have a reason to feel happy.  i started taking it for a real reason and still need something for cluster headaches, just wish it didn't take over my life.  have to plan my day according to how many pills i haver.  doesn't help that my husband also takes oxy for his back.  i know i take the pills to bury lots of pain from my past--brother accidentally shot himself at 9 (i was 6), molested by other brother over and over at 10, mom did not believe me, foster homes, etc... i have never felt worthy of anything good... the pills changed that.  i stopped taking pills for 6 mos when i was on lortab.. the empty knawing feeling never let up,  went on oxy for headaches that would not let up.

by sunshinedaydream3, Oct 13, 2008 07:17PM
i just read that

i can completely relate with some of it

i hope to hell when i get sober i find that happily ever after

but i know its just gonna be hard, every day

its about learning to dance in the rain, cliche i know, but true

by nivermind, Oct 18, 2008 10:38AM
been high myself for that long BUT the last 5 / 10 years has been all about comming off & straitining myself up FOR MYSELF but i supose the kid has a lot to do with it ((thats me just looking @  your profile (we'll call it))


by merrymaria, Oct 24, 2008 08:12AM
hi...i can hear myself in your words...you are not alone by no means.  i have to tell myself everyday that i am a drug addict  and you have to deal with life straight up and sometimes i wonder how i get through the day.  yeah it s great to be not conrtrolled by those pills but i am so depressed with myself at times.   i have a lot of negativity in my life which brings me way down there but i won t let these people drive me to the pill bottle again.  just try to love yourself, i know its hard but it can help if you have some good thoughts about yourself.  we will feel great someday i hope.  wish you lots of luck...maria

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