[psychotic90]

Hi. I am a new member of this support group and was hoping to find a friend (s) to support and gain support from during my times of struggling with substance abuse. I don't abuse one substance, but many. In desperation, any. But normally, I smoke marijuana, and I like pills. Usually narcotic pain pills or adderall (drug used in treatment of add/adhd)
I started using cigarettes, and marijuana at the age of 10. I use drugs to escape reality and cover up intense, and undesired emotions I feel. If anyone out there needs a friend. Feel free to add me. Thank you.

[IchbinkeinTeufel]

Hi there, psychotic90.

This might sound daft, but after staring at your post for a little while, I realised something:

I use drugs to escape reality and cover up intense, and undesired emotions I feel.

I believe part of the key to your recovery may lie within those words. You know why you use them, so perhaps you can work on using other ways to escape, such as games, films, programmes, poetry, music, etc. I'm not sure about intense and undesired emotions, but intense and undesired thoughts that can and often have triggered intense and undesired emotions is something with which I'm on-board. For me, escapism via the aforementioned ways have helped me, as did therapy, research, a local-ish support group, and speaking with like-minded people.

I'm no addict (unless you count a long-gone SI addiction, or the addiction to escapism via things like games) so feel free to ignore this.

Best of luck to you.

[DePressMe]

Hi! I've got a colorful drug use history...been clean for awhile now. But, I remember (totally) what it's like to first get clean. I'm always open to PMs and I check my box often. Feel free to PM me if you want to chat...D.