Thank you so much for the replies!
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Originally Posted by Roadie
I'm sorry no one answered you sooner on this. Drugs feed depression--and by the time you're a drug addict, you are sending your depression into a tailspin with your drug dependency. There is no way the depression can be satisfactorily treated until the addiction is take care of--removed.
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I'm now down to just less than once every other day, and still pushing on. I'm noticing it gets easier and easier to not smoke or drink as the dependency lessens, and I am a bit more hopeful. My boyfriend just smoked a joint, I abstained - for now. I'm not noticing any decline in the depression department, though. Actually quite the opposite.
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Originally Posted by layla11
Hi AndreC, I can remember thinking I didn't want to get sober for fear of reality. For me, it was the best thing I every did, and it wasn't until I was crying uncontrollably all the time that I quit. I did go to a outpatient center and did get help with my thinking. The truth is there are a lot of fears about getting sober, but most of these were all in my mind. And a lot of depression talking. It took me many years to get sick of feeling horrible until I stopped my addictions. It gets better, if you stop.
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I hear you, reality terrifies me.
Can a drug-free life be fun too? I think I know you're going to say yes, but I don't see how a drug-free life can be fun. All the drug-free things normal people do seem so pointless. Like visiting drug-free friends for coffee and talking about their drug-free problems and drug-free happiness, or going to cafés and paying a small fortune for an even smaller meal when you can just buy food at the store. Going to concerts without doing drugs, when you can just sit at home and listen to music. Working to make money when you can't spend them on drugs. The list goes on and on.
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Originally Posted by madisgram
hi andre. there is a better life for you if you stop drinking. did you know alcohol is a depressant? i drank to self medicate too so i could numb my feelings and depression. i saw no way out but to keep drinking. but i learned the skills to cope with my pain after i stopped drinking. i'm bipolar too. when it got bad enough i began seeing a therapist who specialized in addictions. i also went to AA. the combo really helped me learn to stop. both gave me hope that my life could be better not drinking. you can do this too. you may not be an alcoholic yet. you can break the chains that control you right now. you wouldn't have posted imho unless you were concerned. we are here to support you. you'll not forfeit anything if you try to get sober with help. i encourage you to consider that option. the drinking will only get worse otherwise.
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Hi! I hope you're right.
I'm not an alcoholic, I could replace alcohol entirely with cannabis if I wanted to (or the other way around), but I think it's similar. I have been to a treatment centre for addictions, but that actually made me want to do more drugs.
Still, I think it somehow helped me recognize my problem. I am concerned about my memory, and that I will never get it back to the way it used to be. I hope that I will.
Thank you all again, for caring