Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselling Thread

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For me it was habit not the addiction used large quantitys to sleep. I miss sleeping especially now that Ive started to quit smoking. But have been forced to get better a coping with the extra stress of not sleeping. But we all have our issues to deal with.

hi im new to the website i m having serious issues in life my life keeps crashing around me like crazy i find pot seems to be the only thing i can turn to in times of need or to make friends or to make people like me i seem to be one of the people that has real troble making friends and dealing with peoplei dono if i m posting this in the right place butright now i dont have my pot i got none and i got bottel of vodka and i m sdtruggeling realy hard i want to get drunk and just forget life i looking for suport or maybe i open ear maybe some advise what do other do in our situation i just found out i m a aspie and i m learning from two days ago that maybe theres other out there who could understand me better then i understand myself i m looking for some one to just caht with maybe some one who can understand whats going on and maybe tell me what they did to see the briter side of life at this point i could crawl in some cave and shut the world out its just so messed up i made lotabac choices that i caant take back ..... i need guidance so badly if theres anyone out there with a better idea then smoking pot so u dont feel regret and pain plz shoot me a message i neeed a friend

I just threw away all my spice, I've been taking it since late 2011. I'm not sure what'll happen when I try to sleep tonight.

I've been drinking and smoking since I was underage. Several times over the past ten years I have woken up next to an empty bottle and a puddle of puke. If someone is in a mental state where they can kill a bottle of whiskey or more, solo, in less than 3 hours, they should probably just take a sedative instead.

Fell of the wagon and thru the earth to and dont care anymore.

aww. I'm sorry johhny, I'm not giving up my sobriety for anything. I was tired of feeling like sh-t! that life is over
so, so happy!

You can do it. let go of all concepts, to get rid of something let it fester. (by letting it fester what I mean is you will naturally find out what is good for you. you will then make a choice that is best for you.) obviously being an addict is no fun, you have the power. you are the master of the universe. not some addiction

good luck to you.

Dry again life just knocked me down hard but coming back slowly.

Reading through some of these posts is giving me such mixed feelings.

On the one hand, some people have managed to keep their lives stable and sane while managing a substance addiction, while others who are struggling with addiction and are trying to quit sometimes sound like they are being overly critical of themselves.

It is certainly makes for an interesting read from a substance abuse perspective. People here in many different stages of their substance abuse issues.

My main problem with it is the escape aspect - if you're using to escape something, and not facing whatever it is that you're trying to escape, I think that makes the problem worse, not better. You can get away from whatever it is for a few hours, but once the effects of the drug wear off, you're right back to square one, except more time has passed. It's not easy to fix a messed up life or a messed up childhood - believe me, I'm not suggesting that you can just switch back on and tackle life as you would if you had been sober. So good luck to everyone involved - not sure I can come back to this post, but I have send some PMs to specific people seeing if they are up for continuing conversation via email. Feel free to do the same

eh I just like to legally take my rx only Respirdol and Zoloft because I know they both help with my Asperger Syndrome.

I have been up all night and I'm still wide awake and going strong.
There must have been something weird in those gigantic reefers I have smoked tonight. Pot usually makes me feel sleepy. It is a very rare but welcome side effect though. I am going to do some serious housecleaning in about thirty minutes or so. Maybe that will wake up that horrendous b***h of a downstairs neighbour. Yeah!

I will switch my vacuum cleaner on in a couple of minutes so I am ready to roll!

Attempting to stop drinking again.

I am not addicted or anything but I just don't think it is for me. I love being drunk, truly love it, I often drink at home on my own but over the years the negatives have started outweighing the positives and I do get pretty depressed after I drink and sometimes while I drink too.

Went on a stag weekend last week and while everyone got smashed on the friday night I had 4 pints and that was it. then went sober on the saturday night and it wasn't as bad as I thought.

if I can do it on a stag weekend then I can do it anywhere I guess! good place to start.

6 days in

I like to smoke pot from time to time but since I rarely drink and never tried other drugs I really don't think I need counselling.
I think I have found a constructive and responsible way to use substances and I don't think there is anything wrong with that.

This is actually one of the very few times that I am on this forum without smoking a reefer beforehand and I can't notice the difference to be honest.

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