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  • My 0.02 cents – you are not addicted to a substance.

    You are just so monumentally pissed off with your reality that you seek solace in drugs.

    Changing your reality is the harder option. But it’s a lot cheaper in the long run.

    @MC G-Tek 534039 wrote:

    Nope, not havin’ that mate, sundays are great! It’s a day to just be lazy as hell if you want to be, or go out and do stuff that you didn’t have time for in the rest of the week, sundays rock dude!

    Thats why they’re shit – I doss about every day and generally do nothing with my life (not that i’m happy with that) I don’t need a day for it. It’s just depressing cause you have college/work or whatever the next day and fuck all to do that day…

    @DeezNuts 534061 wrote:

    Thats why they’re shit – I doss about every day and generally do nothing with my life (not that i’m happy with that) I don’t need a day for it. It’s just depressing cause you have college/work or whatever the next day and fuck all to do that day…

    To be fair, when I was your age (fuck, that makes me sound old, ha ha) I used to hate em as well, it wasn’t til my late teens that I started to appreciate sundays and started using them as almost a 2nd Saturday!

    @MC G-Tek 534067 wrote:

    To be fair, when I was your age (fuck, that makes me sound old, ha ha) I used to hate em as well, it wasn’t til my late teens that I started to appreciate sundays and started using them as almost a 2nd Saturday!

    To be fair after a heavy friday night I miss saturday so sometimes i’ll use that as an excuse to get real stoned on a sunday and eat well etc. Actually thats the only times I enjoy a sunday..

    @DeezNuts 534071 wrote:

    To be fair after a heavy friday night I miss saturday so sometimes i’ll use that as an excuse to get real stoned on a sunday and eat well etc. Actually thats the only times I enjoy a sunday..

    See? Now you’re getting it mate!

    @Pat McDonald 534058 wrote:

    My 0.02 cents – you are not addicted to a substance.

    You are just so monumentally pissed off with your reality that you seek solace in drugs.

    Changing your reality is the harder option. But it’s a lot cheaper in the long run.

    I think you’ve pretty much hit the nail on the head there Paddy ol’ boy

    @MC G-Tek 534067 wrote:

    To be fair, when I was your age (fuck, that makes me sound old, ha ha) I used to hate em as well, it wasn’t til my late teens that I started to appreciate sundays and started using them as almost a 2nd Saturday!

    I hate sundays cos i know i can’t do anything that will affect my ability to work on monday, so have to stay in- otherwise i’ll get led astray :/

    I wouldn’t say it confidently but yes this is starting of path which leads to addiction sure…make sure you get away from this…

    How have you been getting on lately then mate?

    @The Psyentist 533918 wrote:

    I’m sure most of you by now are aware that I really like drugs. I’ve smoked weed for 7 years now (pretty much daily) and have been taking ecstasy in both pill and crystal form on and off for 5. I’ve also tried a lot of other stuff but they’re my 2 favourite and most frequently used. Both of which I can say I have been addicted to in the past but that was over 3 years ago.

    Last time I found myself caught up in an addicts cycle I was spending about £60 a day to feed my habit which lasted 6 months or so before I retook control of life. Recently though I feel I’ve developed a new kind of addiction, this time I’m not so much craving any particular substance(s) but become possessed by a general desire to escape sobriety.

    When I’ve experienced addiction in the past pretty much every waking moment I wasn’t high on MDMA or weed I craved them, and that was the type of high I felt I needed. Now however I can go about my working week with only a few joints no problem, hard drugs may not even cross my mind. But once I reach the weekend I just want to get totalled, but again I don’t seek any particular high just whatever I can get hold of.

    My urge to get high though doesn’t surpass rational thinking meaning I don’t take drugs I wouldn’t normally take nor do I buy if I can’t afford. This means I can and will stay away from drugs if need be. The only problem with this is that I seem to experience comedown like symptoms anyway.

    A few times recently I’ve reached Sunday night or Monday morning and I become an irritable antisocial gremlin because I haven’t had drugs.

    Is this some sort of psychological addiction or do I just like drugs too much?

    @The Psyentist 533918 wrote:

    I’m sure most of you by now are aware that I really like drugs. I’ve smoked weed for 7 years now (pretty much daily) and have been taking ecstasy in both pill and crystal form on and off for 5. I’ve also tried a lot of other stuff but they’re my 2 favourite and most frequently used. Both of which I can say I have been addicted to in the past but that was over 3 years ago.

    Last time I found myself caught up in an addicts cycle I was spending about £60 a day to feed my habit which lasted 6 months or so before I retook control of life. Recently though I feel I’ve developed a new kind of addiction, this time I’m not so much craving any particular substance(s) but become possessed by a general desire to escape sobriety.

    When I’ve experienced addiction in the past pretty much every waking moment I wasn’t high on MDMA or weed I craved them, and that was the type of high I felt I needed. Now however I can go about my working week with only a few joints no problem, hard drugs may not even cross my mind. But once I reach the weekend I just want to get totalled, but again I don’t seek any particular high just whatever I can get hold of.

    My urge to get high though doesn’t surpass rational thinking meaning I don’t take drugs I wouldn’t normally take nor do I buy if I can’t afford. This means I can and will stay away from drugs if need be. The only problem with this is that I seem to experience comedown like symptoms anyway.

    A few times recently I’ve reached Sunday night or Monday morning and I become an irritable antisocial gremlin because I haven’t had drugs.

    Is this some sort of psychological addiction or do I just like drugs too much?

    Addiction is psychological. Yes certain substances have physical sides to them too but simple detox / abstinence is the easy part. The psychological addictive insanity which gets you to relapse over and over is the real thing to conquer.

    Classic signs of addiction, to anything.
    Putting drugs before, health, family, friends, money, food etc, moral code…
    Isolating yourself.
    Being totally preoccupied mentally about drugs (day dreaming etc).
    Progression from when you started.
    Hiding how much you use from others.
    Mixing with people who use as much as you to feed into the delusion that it’s normal.

    If you’re doing any of these things then you probably suffer from addiction which is characterised by an obsessive mind, physical cravings and a belief that substances are the only way. If you can abstain from anything for long enough the obssession, craving and a desire to use will go away but relapse will bring all three back so really it’s about filling in the hole from drugs sort of like GL identified with his job, he hasn’t got time to take drugs anymore.

    If you tried and failed many times to quit but really want to then asking for help is the only other option as addiction comes from within and is pretty hard to ‘cure’ a mental condition with the mental head.

    Brief background: my partner has lost his business, his previous wife, children, home & has now lost his job….I have him living with me as he has nowhere to go…

    he drinks all day & night. Usually wine cos thats where his “buzz” is. He sleeps for maybe 2 hrs & then is awake drinking more wine.
    He wont get help, doesnt want it & is quite happy to drink himself to death…lets face it….what else has he got to loose. Hes 50 by the way.

    He has no family in Australia. Im it. His whole world at the moment. I am so desperate to get help for him. He wont go to AA.
    Thinks thats just for loosers. We have tried tapering off the wine by only drinking beer during the day & then having 600ml of wine at night. I hide the wine….but then he just goes to the store & buys more…I cant send him packing as he will end on the street & I couldnt do that to him.

    PLEASE HELP ME… I am so desperate.

    You’re not alone fella.. Best of luck to ya!

    @Dr Bunsen 557553 wrote:

    How have you been getting on lately then mate?

    I’ve been having good spells and bad spells since I made this thread. Thanks for asking, but unfortunately I’m not doing too well again now.

    I’ve tried to cut down the weed, which I did successfully for quite a while, but then the last few months stress and depression have knocked my backwards. I’m trying again to get my life back on track, but at the moment things are looking pretty ugly between me and my girlfriend. I think I’m close to losing her which is killing me. So unfortunately I’m leaning on the black-market benzos again to ease my anxiety and keep dark thoughts at bay; as the medical professionals are failing to help me.

    Other than a short phase of playing with aMT a month or so ago I’ve been clean of stimulants for some time.

    Hi, just thought I’d say I get ya… I get that like because I also suffer from anxiety attacks & am struggling with so much life crap recently, just one thing after another, and I’m not talking the little issues I’m talking mainly quite huge problems for the past 6 months so caved into ‘B’ to have a block-out escaped every now & then but it quickly escalated but now with most of the life stuff still present & I am right on the edge of slipping into that dark place where I risk losing control of fighting my mind “demons” & that scares me too much so forcing myself to knock it all on the head for a while… But in true ‘ME’ fashion I decided it would be good to end on a good one & have a blow out to clear it all from my house… It is now day 8 but all gone now!!! so hoping to crash soon, praying I sleep through my come-down & be fresh & ready for my healthy healthy journey back to normality & finding things to fill my time… this quit also includes weed so big leap but mental state & it starting to affect my home life has trigged this much needed head-sortout!?! so how’s things going with you lately?

    @nikkitanoir 564901 wrote:

    Hi, just thought I’d say I get ya… I get that like because I also suffer from anxiety attacks & am struggling with so much life crap recently, just one thing after another, and I’m not talking the little issues I’m talking mainly quite huge problems for the past 6 months so caved into ‘B’ to have a block-out escaped every now & then but it quickly escalated but now with most of the life stuff still present & I am right on the edge of slipping into that dark place where I risk losing control of fighting my mind “demons” & that scares me too much so forcing myself to knock it all on the head for a while… But in true ‘ME’ fashion I decided it would be good to end on a good one & have a blow out to clear it all from my house… It is now day 8 but all gone now!!! so hoping to crash soon, praying I sleep through my come-down & be fresh & ready for my healthy healthy journey back to normality & finding things to fill my time… this quit also includes weed so big leap but mental state & it starting to affect my home life has trigged this much needed head-sortout!?! so how’s things going with you lately?

    Hi, what is ‘B’? I’m assuming that’s your weapon of choice.

    I’m up and down, as always. Been doing quite a lot of binging these last couple of months. Although these sessions were somewhat justified as they were for occasions. Had a couple of friend’s birthday parties and a music festival, whereas I was just binging at the weekend just because I could. I’ve been doing a lot less of that recently, plus I’ve had fairly large quantities of various substances in the house and managed to just leave them where they are. I think 6 months or so ago I wouldn’t have had the self control to not just be eating/smoking the lot.

    How you feeling after your blow-out?

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