I want to get high so bad!
Really going through it y’all. Anyone else feel like they aren’t going to make it through the day? I stopped smoking meth 2 days ago and I’m on the verge of relapse. Who else has quit meth and how the *** did you do it???
@ChainFree4Evr stay strong! So glad you posted. It shows bravery to be honest and admit you’re struggling.
Thank you so much. It’s taken every ounce of me to make it through the day. But peers like you have helped me tremendously.
I don’t know if this will help.
But think about the future you. In 5 years time you go to a house, knock on the door and you meet the future you.
You have a chat and ask the future you questions about the life you are now living.
Today, giving up meth is not for the today you, it’s for the future you. Just see that person, get to know what their life is like free of meth….
I read about a chronically obese person who was trying to lose an obscene amount of weight, which they did successfully. And what really helped was an image of their future self on the fridge which stopped them indulging in moments of temptations.
Good luck, I can’t even imagine how hard this is. It takes a lot of strength to do what you are doing.
I want to thank you personally for your support and encouragement. I’m laying next to my pregnant wife as she sleeps and think how I don’t want to disappoint her or let her down by failing her and getting high again. You would think that would be all the motivation a man needs to stay clean, but even that isn’t enough sometimes. When I think of a future me I think of a man that once was and I was a successful business owner and a genuinely happy guy over all. Sometimes I fear that that man has been slowly destroyed and I’m left with the remnants of what once was. The future me that I want to be is one free from worldly vices. But I can’t see past the next 5 minutes… because the uncontrollable urge to use this crap is so intense it’s taking everything in me to get to the next 5 minutes. But even in 5 minute intervals… I will continue to look to the future for the better me that I know exists. Thank you again for your love and support!!!
You are strong and courageous! You got this!
Hi and thank you for your reply.
How is it going?
When you are giving up an addiction you have to prepare for setbacks. If you have a setback then learn from it. Like that you can turn the setback into something positive.
You used to be a business man and you then hit rock bottom.
Don’t look back, that guy is no longer you. You are who you are today and that guy in the future. That is all that matters. The past is gone.
Today you are fighting. You have a substance, an alien that has taken control of your brain temporarily. And now you are fighting back with all your might. Imagine a gladiator, this is on that level. You can do this. You want to do this. It is so hard because your brain has been hijacked, it’s convincing you that all that matters in the next hit. Nothing else, not even the thought of your new baby is helpful right now. Don’t worry about that, that will change.
You are not you right now, and once you get that alien out of your system you can start to see and feel things more clearly.
Right now it’s just taking it one moment at a time. Trying to get past those insanely strong urges.
I don’t know if visualisation may help.
start by noticing your breathing, put your hands on your stomach and become aware of you breath… how it fills up your lungs, how your stomach moves, do this for a bit, maybe with your eyes shut.
Then think of a colour that is the colour of the meth in your body, then choose a strong positive one. Visualise the strong colour filling your body and it colours out the ‘meth colour’. It starts in your toes and moves up and see your body filling up with the strong colour.
You are really trying and what more can you do?
Be kind to yourself right now.
Your doing amazing this drug is all that is evil
I injected and what’s worse is never could myself
keep focus on all that you are and don’t let it take over
