2 month break from all drugs as of 30/03/08

[BlondieUK]

As of sunday swim has decided to take a 2 month break from any form of narcotics.. this means cigarettes, alcohol, stimulants, downers, etc.

Swim started heavily abusing alcohol a few years back, this then turned to stimulants such as amphetamines, cocaine etc, and then onto MDMA or tranqulisers on the weekend.

The last few months this has been every day, so swim is calling a halt.

Swim has tried this before, but swim has realised.. if you stop drinking, you just do more drugs, if you stop drugs, you drink more, if you stop both, it's cigarettes and sleeping pills.

Swim realises alot of people will say "why only 2 months?".. well, if swim were to say he's quitting it all forever, he'd be lying.

For one thing, swim is a young man with plenty of life left in him, and for another, setting a goal like that is just setting you up for disaster.

Swim can make 2 months and he knows it, although he knows the odd slip here and there is possible, it's how you deal with it that counts (although swim does not intend to slip)

The idea behind this is twofold -

A) detox the system, get the brain working again and generally get swim's shit together.

B) get out of the habit, so that hopefully come summer, if swim wants a drink, he can have a drink, without ending up on a raving bender for 10 days and spending mega £££ .. swim is trying to learn some self control.

Anyway, I'm not really expecting any comments or whatnot (although support would be nice!), I just wanted to share this, to get it out in the open.

Swim feels that by sharing this information, it clarifies it and makes it more real.

Thankyou =)