Advise sought for amphetamine addicted husband with Schizophrenia

[manda]

You've obviously gotten plently of advice on this subject already, but honey, he will be an asshole until he is off of it. But believe me I understand you wanting to help him, cause you got kids. You can pm me anytime. -Manda

[skib1]

SWIM has a good friend that is cert. Schiz, and as described speed was fine at first but soon the voices had him holding weapons and staring out windows at shadows for hours and hours. SWIM found your decision a good one, him seeing many friends in the same boat (excluding this particular mental illness) where their wife and child left them as a last wake up call and I have never seen it work, they can so much more easily make upi excuses without out constant reality checks that no one is now there to give them. But a gambler or a businessman would have to play the odds which is the latter, but I am very happy, if in fact things go as you anticipate.

Swim has same smoking addiction for a number of years now, he knows the time grows short that he can maintain the false exterior of success and normalcy while the interior is rotted hollow. But quitting meth is the easiest thing to do, ask swim, he's done it at leats like 25 times in the past 10 years.

No seriously what SWIM have found through those 25 times is depending on what was current consumption and length of frequent consumption you need 5-10 days of nothing but sleep and food and drinks.
Once hibernation is over bath....peeeeeyouuu
Though one will greatly desire nothing but sleep (swim has fallen asleep weeks into recovery standing, driving, in meetings, at restaraunts and even bikeriding) after a week or two its as good as it gets (as far as how good sleep will make you feel once its over) and the only thing that returns you to feeling normal is staying busy with physical work and exercise, after 1 month of minumum, even cardio only exercise on a regular basis and 8 hrs of sleep a night (SWIm know he will want 12-14-16 but this just negates the process) he will feel like a new man, excluding the other issue and drugs which SWIM is in no position to comment on knowing nothing about their affect and or symptoms.

Anyway wish you the best, applaud your decision of action, dread the likely outcome regardless of heart, love, or faith. Meth is all the bad they say about it, and worse, yet suprisingly yummy swim thought....

Oh and if you can't smoke it swim can sure stay up a long time without properly installed stimulants, but he can't and you can.

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Well written & compassionate post.

[Forum Moron]

Have you considered meditation? Meditation can be a very powerful thing, and if you find a good person to guide you though a meditation process, it can have a very powerful effect on the mind. I'm not an expert on schizophrenia but personally, i belive it could have benifits for both the drug probelm and it may even help to reduce some of the scizophrenic problems as well. Meditation can clear the mind, and soul, and done properly and maintained over time, can even have a euphoric effect.

The power your mind has is incredable, even the power of your own words. One thing to do is catch yourself, and your husband when saying things like "im trying to quit this" or even what you said "he's trying to quit, but he just cant". Try is a very very weak word. Silly as it seems, but to quote a wise man many of us know, "Do or not do, there is no try." - Mr. Yoda When using the word try, you are opening your subconsicous door to failure already and you can quite easily open that door again when it comes to substance abuse... Try implys both success AND failure.

One thing swim has been doing since he has been off cocaine, is on the wall he has written one word, barely legible in pencil. DONE. That is a pretty strong word for swim, implying completeness, and finality. So, every day swim pencils over that word, making it darker and reaffirming the fact that swim is DONE with his cocaine abuse. It may sound a bit like nonsence, but it has worked better than any advice given to swim in the past.

Your husband can quit. Anybody can quit any drug. Anybody can achive what they put their mind to, with mental focus, and the love that the two of you obvously share, NOTHING can stop the two of you to whatever goals you want to achive. I have faith, and I am sure every other member of this forum does as well.

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Nice post