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Old Feb 21, 2014, 10:39 AM
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Alcohol was my drug of choice but as I got older I did harder drugs and loved them. Vicadin I absolutely loved. I have been clean a sober for 18 years with a few slips on pot. The five years before I got sober I did meth heavily. I loved it. I never did smoke only snort.
Two weeks after I got sober I skitzed out. I went into what is called amphetimine post acute withdrawal. I was pyschotic and whacked. It lasted for a whole year before I came back to my old self. I was three weeks in the mental hospital before they would let me out. On haildol for a year. they wouldn't let me drive for six months. I can tell you that meth will whack your brain chemistry for a long time.
Hi

I have friends in AA that were in properly diagnosed with bipolar and other things. The problem can be post acute withdrawal syndrome or paws. It is our brains resetting after all the flow of chemicals from drugs. This mimics bipolar and other kinds of psychosis. A good book is Beautiful Boy about a meth addict who underwent brain scans in sobriety. The brain suffers a lot of malfunction.

Peace. Tnt

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