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Originally Posted by childofchaos831
I will say that a lot of the time, when someone decides to try to get clean, the people around them that still use will feel threatened. Us quitting kind of throws it in their faces that their use isn't normal either, and they will do whatever they can to get us to keep using so they don't feel weird. The best bet is to just stop hanging out, stop talking, stop everything that involves people who do still use. Whether they care about us or not, their survival instincts kick in and they will do anything to protect their own behaviors. People, places and things. Any off these that get in the way of us staying clean need to be changed.
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So true. It's been many years, but I have been one of those people who razzed a friend who quit. I did feel like what he was doing made sense and I didn't like that conclusion. I kept thinking I would stop after the summer or when I went through all of my stash or... It was a long time from when I really knew I had to stop until I did. Fortunately, I wasn't doing anything that takes as heavy a toll on mind and body as meth.
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