How do you fill the time...

[jimbo286]

What do you do to fill the time that I now have on my hands...so much time now that I'm not out either hustling or copping or roaming around high....how do you let the "normalcy" back into your life and keep your sanity at the same time....?? A little help here.......

[steedo]

You live life to its fullest. Believe me the pills did not really make it better. For a while you thought they gave you power but they always turn on you and then where are you. A lot worse off than you were before.Without them the pain may still be there, both body and mind, but at least without them you FEEL.
  I am only 18 days clean and off a 1 1/2 years of sub. I don't FEEL great but at least I have myself back (almost) and I FEEL feelings, good and bad. But that is better than being numb.

[ang_811]

keep busy, busy, busy, and.....oh yea busy. an idle  mind is the devils playground.
first off..get aftercare.
get into some old hobbies that u once did b4 ur addiction. for me it was running, swimming, my photgraphy, reconecting with some old freinds that i once pushed away bc of my addiction. i remember bn so overwhelmed by having all of this free time on my hands. i actually felt like i wanted to be more social and do more things.

just keep busy and get sum aftercare.

[IBKleen]

Aftercare, aftercare, aftercare.

Get into a support group and make friends.

[jimimiddlefinger]

Good question. I have always found that boredom is my biggest enemy when it comes to my addiction. I have been out of work since late last year. Unfortunately I had money from my fathers estate, so the was no urgency to get back to work. The last time I was not on either OCs or Lortab 7.5s (regularly for long stretches) was back in '06. I ran foodservice on a military base, and had a catering Co. with my exwife. That and my kids kept me busy enough, but even then I was a pretty regular, moderately heavy drinker. And found ways every now and then to cop some pills from friends. So this is my quandry also. What the hell am I supposed to do? Guess I'll have to figure that out...