My view on ’recovery’...

[Nicaine]

... is bound to be controversial, but here it is.



You want to recover, you have to get sick to f*cking death of the hell you're putting yourself through, to the point where you want to quit a lot more than you want to use. Then you have to get away from the stuff for a goodly period of time (varies depending on the drug). Then you have to stay away from it, any way possible. If necessary, PICK UP AND MOVE. If you want to quit enough, move to some frigging isolated location out in the sticks. You'll do whatever it takes if you're really ready.



Using drugs feels damn good, most of the time. People who are 'addicted' love using drugs, but they are also aware that they're destroying themselves and hate using drugs. In other words, they badly want to use and badly want to quit at the same time. This extreme conflicting situation is called ambivalence. To recover, you have to resolve the ambivalence one way or another.



A person can dick around for years in various 12 step programs. Believe me, I did. Since I still wanted to use more than I wanted to quit, they did nothing for me. If you're truly ready to quit, they'll be equally unnecessary because you will be able to quit without them.



Hope this helps someone (or if it just pisses you off, feel free to bitch).