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Alcohol & Drug Addiction Automated Taglist!
by tommy
Last post
 January 11th
...See more Welcome to the Alcohol & Drug Addiction Taglist This thread is an auto-updating list. The list is regularly updated by forum leaders and can be found below. Having issues? Reply to this thread and someone will help you! Why should I join the taglist? ✔ Never miss out on sub-community check-ins, discussions or events ✔ Get tagged and notified by community leaders whenever a new relevant thread has been posted ✔ Become a more active member of the community. What do I need to do? ✅ To add yourself to this taglist, press the Post to Thread button below and write the exact words Please add me. ❌ To remove yourself from this taglist, press the Post to Thread button below and write the exact words Please remove me. ------------------------- Current taglist as of 26 August (updated by @tommy) @blueFan4699 @braveHuman6773 @jrk27 @Kitamean @PeanutButterMurph @texaswily @tommy @tornwillow @transurvivor @veronikamalik
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Helpful Activities for Recovery
by SoulfullyAButterfly
Last post
 August 10th, 2024
...See more What hobbies or activities have you found helpful in your recovery?
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Recovery Journey Tips
by SoulfullyAButterfly
Last post
 October 28th, 2023
...See more What tips would you give to someone who is just starting their recovery journey?
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Alcohols abused and now addicted
by andrewtan99
Last post
 1 day ago
...See more I was 14 when I was alcohol abused by my father. He gave my sister and I alcohol, and used physical violence that would ensure us drink alcohol. Even now, I feel addicted to it, I once fell into porn addiction too, not being able to contemplate my choices at the moment when I was still drunk. I feel exhausted, my teeth coloured in yellow and transparent, my spines shorter than my friends in general, my intelligence slower and blunter than my friends, my health in general, worse than my friends, my black eye bags caused by the almost always constant fighting and arguing between my parents and my sister, my rumination at night thinking if I'll survive, my overthinking if I'll even be able to be accepted into a college, my academic performance held back, my imagination damaged, my life greyer, my desires suicidal, my needs unmet occasionally, my discipline broken, my motivation cold, my enthusiasm cold, my passion on heat.
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Hi I’m new to the 7cups platform
by 2b2high
Last post
 2 days ago
...See more I’m currently on a journey of leaving my addictions behind the substances I use are mushrooms , LSD , 2CB , ketamine , cocaine ,nitrous anyone else here to chat about the problems we have ?
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Today
by Andyman23
Last post
 Monday
...See more Today is a new day I will rejoice and be glad in it I am free and addiction doesn't own me!
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Am I a functioning alcoholic?
by thecloudsinthesky
Last post
 Saturday
...See more I genuinely seem to not be able to engage normally with alcohol and weed, but mostly alcohol. The worst part is that I do like beer and cocktails flavors, so I don't only drink them to get drunk, but I am always looking to get drunk. I don't wanna be a burden to my friends anymore. I truly do think that I have a type of addiction but in all the years I've been drinking I cannot seem to truly get sober; I'll stop drinking for a short period of time and then go back. Is there anyone who can tell me how to fix this? Should I quit cold turkey? Please help.
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things feel weird this year already
by frankLemon3407
Last post
 January 15th
...See more i don’t know what exactly i’m feeling right now but i think this puts it well- i’m addicted to opiates. more specifically codeine. it started when i was at the hospital and they gave me some for a severe toothache i had. i’d never quite gotten the whole thing of drugs, especially because my body is sensitive to anything that goes in it, but codeine has had nothing but wonders to me. i don’t think i’ve ever felt so normal in my life. i have autism so my mind usually goes a million miles an hour trying to make sense of a lot of things but everything just quietened down a bit. my girlfriend and i were in the phone after i’d taken some and we were laughing the whole time and i got the best sleep of my life. it made me feel so good that i was scared of what it would lead me to. after that, i hadn’t touched it. that is, until a few weeks before christmas when my tooth started hurting again. my mom has a big selection of medication so undoubtedly i knew she had some and so i asked if i could take some. i got handed 2 tablets. and yet again, the same thing happened. i got a dizzy, warm drowsy feeling and i loved the sense of my eyelids dropping as i built my lego. it was incredible. from then on, i’ve taken it every day. that is, until i went to my girlfriends house. the days there were fine (around 2 nights) but when i got back home i had the shivering paranoid sickly feeling. i’m scared that i’ve gone too far now and i’m just looking for reassurance that it’s gonna be okay. i’m a 19 year old guy so no one around me really knows and i know the withdrawals from this isn’t like that of a long term user, but it is freaking me out. it’s 4:30am here and i’m so restless. the worst part is is i don’t even know if i can call myself addicted or if my ‘addiction’ really counts. i don’t know. but what i do know is that *** around and finding out is never fun. i knew what i was doing and i understand the consequences. i hope everyone is doing well and has had a happy new year !
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Can't stay sober
by determinedSea4370
Last post
 January 15th
...See more I love feeling extremes too much- I love getting drunk and I also in some demented way love crashing like I am now, feeling sick and sleepless with another merciless day stacked up against me when the sun rises. It's like, if I give in and drink, I can acknowledge that yes, my problems are VALID. And then I get to be a little wild for a while while I'm drunk. And then crashing like this prevents me from having a normal healthy night, because I can't seem to find peace in normal. And then I am sabotaging tomorrow so I can be a wreck and have an excuse to breakdown and get no work done. I'm ridiculous and I can't seem to snap out of this self-destruction that seems to be the core of my personality. I went 4 days without drinking before I couldn't stand the anger of other people drinking around me while I had to sit there being sober and feeling nothing but dull anxiety and dull depression. There is something very wrong with me and I guess my new psychiatrist can try to make it better, but I won't be put on meds until I do blood and genetic testing. So, this cycle of 'I want to be better' and 'I want to be sick' continues all the while I am constantly stressed out about my teaching job, haunted by being abandoned by my best friend, and my anorexia's still hanging out in my head and ready to pounce alongside the self-harm, and all the traumas if my past follow me around. How the *** am I supposed to get and then stay sober when there is so many things wrong with me??
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Alcohol & Drug Addiction Automated Taglist!
by tommy
Last post
 January 11th
...See more Welcome to the Alcohol & Drug Addiction Taglist This thread is an auto-updating list. The list is regularly updated by forum leaders and can be found below. Having issues? Reply to this thread and someone will help you! Why should I join the taglist? ✔ Never miss out on sub-community check-ins, discussions or events ✔ Get tagged and notified by community leaders whenever a new relevant thread has been posted ✔ Become a more active member of the community. What do I need to do? ✅ To add yourself to this taglist, press the Post to Thread button below and write the exact words Please add me. ❌ To remove yourself from this taglist, press the Post to Thread button below and write the exact words Please remove me. ------------------------- Current taglist as of 26 August (updated by @tommy) @blueFan4699 @braveHuman6773 @jrk27 @Kitamean @PeanutButterMurph @texaswily @tommy @tornwillow @transurvivor @veronikamalik
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Actually trying
by determinedSea4370
Last post
 January 8th
...See more It's nearly 4am again. I haven't had a good night in months. I have to somehow go to work today and function and I can already predict the breakdown in the late afternoon, but I need to stop the drinking cycle. It's never going to get easier. My parents are never going to support me in the way I need to be supported, but I have 1 friend and 2 apps and soon a psychiatrist and a therapist on my side. If things take a bad turn- and they will- I won't be completely alone. 1 day at a time. I'm scared to try to get sober while I'm also working a stressful job, but I need to. If I need days off or I need a longer break for the psychward or rehab or even if I need to quit, fine. Cleaning up my mental health has to come first. I'm not going to let my life continue to be like this and I'm not going to let myself commit suicide. Damn, I'm really tired. And scared. Pray for me, please.
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Alcohol Abuse
by Stevenjwr97
Last post
 January 8th
...See more ive been alcohol dependent for many years & I’ve not drank for 2 weeks. I need ideas on what to do when I’m having the urge to drink again. I’m really struggling.
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Admitting I have a problem
by determinedSea4370
Last post
 January 6th
...See more Okay, I'll finally admit it: I have a problem with alcohol. I've been drinking daily for about 3 years now. I'm even drinking right now, in the middle of the day. It's not normal to hide alcohol in your closet, to secretly drink in your car or during class, to day drink, to panic when thinking about getting sober, to only like going out to eat because you can get buzzed on good cocktails, to get aggrevated when you're with friends who don't drink and there's no alcohol in the hang out plans, to feel the need to get drunk every night just to get by. I can't go a day without drinking. I tried, last night, but I was stuck depressed in bed all day and my eating disorder was about to refuse me the opportunity to eat dinner and my sensory issues were going to continue to drive me away from my family, so I drank just to feel okay for once in the day. And the worst part is- that's usually the only time I actually feel okay. I swore I wouldn't try another psychiatrist, but I'm scared now that if I take away the drinking, it'll make everything else worse- the eating disorder, the self harm. I might even end up offing myself, knowing how volatile my mood can get and the idea that it could get even worse if I try to quit alcohol scares me. It scares me so bad, that I'm day drinking just to quell my nerves. Anyone else have tips for how to hold yourself together when it gets rough getting sober? Anyone else take meds? Anyone else have other potentially deadly coping mechanisms that were waiting to pounce once you got sober? I'm afraid and I've researched tips on how to quit for hours, but I can't find anything useful.
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I slipped. After almost 20 years.
by witchybirdie
Last post
 January 5th
...See more The shame I feel is immeasurable. Well, it will be once the high wears off. I took double the dose of my prescription anti-anxiety medication. Not enough to cause me harm, I'm no where near the maximum therapeutic dose. But it just doesn't do enough if I take only the recommended dose. Again, I didn't take anything that is harmful or could cause my immediate or long term problems. But when I was a teenager, this is how it started. A little extra, to take the edge off the enormous emotions I couldn't deal with. And now, were in the same place. I have all these enormous emotions that I can't cope with. That I can't deal with. I just want my brain to stop for a bit and let me alone. And even if it's a completely *** up state, at least it's not too much. Too much emotion, too much anger, shame, self-hatred. Self blame. Always the self blame. I'm responsible for everything bad that's ever happened to me. I'm responsible for every bad person who hurt me. And I'd never judge someone else so harshly as I judge myself. I'm so proud of everyone else, even when they slip, but for me? I'm awful. And realizing how awful I must be that I drew all these abusers to me, that I brought it on myself, even as a child. As a toddler, somehow I was evil enough to need to be punished. So I took extra medicine to make it stop hurting. To make it easier. Because if it's easier, I can sit with it. It doesn't hurt. It doesn't drag across my skin and rip it off in chunks that will never be able to be replaced, no matter how hard I try. Because I keep trying to put myself back together and more keeps falling off. And so I slipped. I need relief, and I've found it. And then that makes me consider more extreme relief. Street drugs. They'd be easy to get, probably just as easy to hide from my wife. But is that who I am? No. Is that who I want to be? Oh god, no. Is that who I might become? I'm afraid of the answer. But when I wake up tomorrow, after doing this and having these thoughts, the shame that I'll feel will disgust me and the self hatred will be at the max and I'll be right back where I am now. And I'll be right back to wanting to take the edge off. And I'm scared, I'm alone, and I don't know what to do or how to cope. I don't know if anyone has advice, or can be empathetic. But I had to let it out. If you read this all, thank you for reading. I know it might be incoherent at times, the meds kicked in right before I started typing, and they're continuing to numb me and make me nothing. Sorry again, and thank you.
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A slip is not a fall
by Misty87tn
Last post
 January 5th
...See more Always remember just because you slip it doesn't mean you've fallen... get up dust urself off and keep climbing!

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