Help I'm An Addict

[Gs172003]

Thank you everyone for the replies, really. I went to a couple NA meetings, and I told my doctor no...

Yay! Good for you!

 

[Deleted member 541]

@tracy jones Good for you for making the choice to face your addiction. It will be tough, but if you really want to stay clean you can. Remember, life is all about choices!!

 

[bentheredonethat]

@tracy jones Good for you for making the choice to face your addiction. It will be...

I went down that path. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW, is if if you don't have insurance that'll cover things like a "dual-diagnosis" rehab, and one way or another put all your eggs in one basket in terms of treatment, you will be so screwed, believe me. That system is a nightmare, you'll be waiting for weeks and months to hear back from most rehabs/treatment centers because of waiting lists.

I would recommend doing the following: first thing you want to be positive on IS whether or not the facility will allow you to wean off the benzo's because MOST places will not have anything to do with them, i went through three months of getting turned down because of that. So i would call around nationally and if you really want it, (YOUR LIFE) you need to get on the phone right away and make sure whatever your taking can be weaned off in whatever facility.

Secondly, say you arrange a meeting with maybe a consultant from whatever medical coverage you may or may not have, they will do a bunch of dancing around the fact you need to get help, but all i know is my experience, and how my state operated they're treatment facility, i wouldnt say thats the case with most healthcare care coordinators but be sure to ask direct questions, and if i could do that again, i'd make sure I got direct, concrete answers.

Thirdly, remember to laugh and keep it simple on a journey into sobriety, I hope you find a fitting treatment for who you are, and people with good hearts. Best of luck!

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Well, congrats on getting clean! Hopefully you still are. You're last update was a while ago.

I write as an addict myself. A clean addict but I do get that mindset and struggle. Coke & crack was my drugs of choice, I've never been a downer drug person but did develop a VERY bad and VERY dangerous huffering duster addiction. It was more a drug of oppurtunity but became insanely deadly insanely fast.

I have gotten myself clean, no rehab or facility of any kind, each time I got clean off of something. It takes A LOT of determination and self control but it can be done. I had to be at the end of my rope each time. Not at the bottom of a hole, but just it had to see what I was actually doing to myself. I had to be able to stop and look back and ask myself how did i get here? How do I change it? I had to be done with it. So to me thats at the end of my rope but you have to have real motivation regardless of whether you do this alone or with a treatment facility, you must be and remain motivated as that addict mind get loud and is very hard to fight.

Count the days to start, that helps to build motivation, then weeks, then months, then years. Its all about building motivation and fighting that addict mind when it comes up.

And my last part is you are self medicating something. That something needs correct treatment. Therapy. If you don't then that something will continue to be too much and you won't have the coping skills you need to correctly cope and it will make it all so much harder.

Anyway, those are my thoughts. From one addict to another. Hope you are well! :hug: