I’m 20, and have an addictive personality. But I can stop for long periods of time. Examples: Used to get drunk ALL THE TIME, like 3+ times a week in HS & College. Have been to court ordered counseling (multiple MIPS, & now get drunk about once a week. I’ve gone through stretches of 1-2 months smoking pot nearly everyday (3-4 diff. stretches) now smoke on occasion. I luv Pot cuz ive never been in trouble from it, & im more in control then if im drunk. I did DXM (cough syrup) for 1-2 months about 3 times a week. haven’t done it in a year+, and probably wont again. I bet on sports for 3 months straight when 18, havent in the last 2 years (occasional $10 bet with friends), i played poker online tons, but haven’t since the gvmnt issue. I still luv poker, and see myself playing in person when I turn 21. Ive smoked lots a cigs (when drunk) but im not hooked. Ive done Cocaine & luv it but not hooked. Im a real estate broker & know im going to destroy myself but don’t care. Advise please!
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Find more positive things to get “hooked” on. If you are busy with living life to its best and fullest, you won’t have time to do all that negative stuff.
Try sports, hobbies, writing, working out, or other things that will improve the quality of your life with out such high risks.
Play poker without spending money…..or other games
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We’re all amateurs and volunteers here. We have difficulty dealing with professional victims, people who come in and say “I have this crippling problem, but I defy you to offer a solution because I have tried them all. It’s impossible to help me, so don’t try.”
You have not hit bottom yet, brother. Call back when you have, and you are ready to try anything. But do us a favor and sober up before you sign on again. I mean that in the nicest, most helpful way that I can think of right now.
It’s all in your mind. You can be strong willed if you believe in your self and other people believe in you too. Get away from the people you have done drugs with and surround yourself with positive influences.
dude your one wild motherfuckerlol at least your honest with your self if you pull your head out of your a$$ your going places! straiten up- a drug and alcoholic show them how to better utilize their talents they usually end up well off if not rich unless they get too big for their britches and take on a new addiction like gambling cause its legal plent of good people havent beat the wheel brother
You aren’t going to be able to stop as long as deep down you think its okay. The way it sounds the only way you are going to save yourself is to hit rock bottom and lose everything. No friends/family, no money, no job, more legal battles if not jail time. You are right, you are the only one that can save yourself, but from what you describe you really don’t want to. Honestly if you are serious about getting clean, go to rehab, where you are cut from everyone and everything and that won’t let you out until you have completed treatment. Thats my only suggestion. Good luck!
Clue, you are the one that needs to help yourself, you know what your problems are and only you can change them. Your comment ( I know I’m going to destroy my self but don’t care) is a self defeating attitude. If you truly want to learn to use common sense and self control, then work on it every day, Keep a journal and write down your plus’s and use these to build your self respect for yourself. Good luck to you.
OK, I have been through alot of the things that you are going through, the one thing that you wrote that caught my attention was : I know Im going to destroy myself, but I don’t care” That is your main problem right there. You have to want to change and you have to love yourself enough to take the steps to do it. You can go to all the groups, counseling, and treatment centers you want, but none of them are going to help you until you are ready to accept their help. You have to admit your faults, admit that you have a problem and then take the steps to get the help that you need.
Drugs are very tricky and although you say you can stop for long periods of time, what I see is that you just bounce back and forth between different drugs…betting and gambling is just as bad as cocaine, although gambling doesnt have physical side affects in can destroy your life. Do you think you have a problem? When you can get to that point, you will start the process of change.
It seems like you are very smart and have a wonderful carreer ahead of you, please get some help now and get your life straight before it’s too late. You dont want to wake up when you are 50, addicited to drugs, homeless, and on the verge of suicide because you didnt do something about your problem when you were 20. Life will fly by before you no it, and once the years are gone, you can’t get them back. Find someone who is clean and has a good amount of clean time under their belt, and talk to them, become good friends with them, and open up your mind and listen and let them give you some guidence and help…Things can get better and you can break free of this monkey…..you just have to want to do it. Good luck and I will pray for you…but more than all I know it’s possible, because I’ve been there too
Me too~ First recognize all your faults and good things about ourself (which u seemed to start) Try to fix the bad by wanting to improve the good
The only way you can overcome your addicitve personality is to want to change and want to change ONLY for yoiurself. With drugs and all that i also tried for my parents and such, until i did it just for me and really wanted to change, is when I became less addictive to things better said would be : I became aware of the things I needed to do to prevent things from occuring and I saw how to fix things in a rational and mature way Super Good Luck