….. you go to a meeting run into someone you just met in detox who is happy to see you because you left detox early (well got kicked out sort of) and no one knew where I went and I tell her I was pissed and downed 15 mg of valium and drank who knows how much alcohol and weed and her response is “ya that makes sense.”
When you are at an AA meeting and someone asks you where a location of somewhere is and you think for a bit and tell them the location by stating where the nearest bar is.
When someone in the meeting brings in a drink and your brain gets triggered thinking its alcohol because the container looks similar to a wine container you bought before even though it was juice.
You get yourself into high risk situation after situation yet still go back and drink thinking this time will be different.
You end up at a guys house because you are too drunk to do anything, once you sober up enough to realize I need to get out of here this is not safe the first time he goes to the bathroom you don’t make your escape but you dump his prescription Tylenol III into your purse but he comes back before you have a chance to make it out the door so you have to go through another whole round of unwanted sex.
When you go to the bathroom in the ER and take pills in the bathroom so the nurses don’t see you.
When you start drinking and hate it so much that you call someone for help and courage to dump the bottle of wine, only to wake up the next day and drink again.
When you take a random pill you don’t know because it has been told that I helped the person sleep. start feeling better take more go to a out patient program and can’t function because you snuck in these unknown pills into the program in your cigarette package. You get kicked out of the program for using something only to find out later it was just melatonin but because you got kicked out for “using” yo blamed them and went into relapse mode.
You get a sponsor, then relapse the next day, you get a home group and relapse the next day.
You get pissed at your sponsor go drink and use and then blame her for it and then have no clue why she doesn’t want to be your sponsor anymore.
Someone on the phone says the is only one life so make the most of it and you remember people saying that in relations to drinking and using when she meant staying sober .
You drive drunk to an AA meeting sit there then drive home via the liquor store.
Every time you hear the word crack you think of the drug even though they just meant there is a crack in the wall.
You tell yourself you will just have one drink to calm the shakes down and then you lose track of how much you drink.
When two guys are fighting over you and you play it and go with the guy who has the most alcohol and drugs, if your lucky to stay sober enough to not end up going unwillingly.
You ask your friend before her wedding what the alcohol situation is like.
You hide alcohol and then dispose of the bottles in another location.
You been drinking and using so long that you don’t want to eat and another addict hands you a chocolate bar and says you need to eat something.
You sip people’s drinks or take people’s dope when they are not looking but a small amount so they don’t notice.
You tell people that the location you live is a trigger because there is a wine store across the street and a bar on the corner and other people see those locations as the grocery store and a restaurant with a bar. And you pipe up and say well to me it’s a bar I never eat there.
You realize as soon as you typed this last sentence that you used the word pipe and start thinking about a crack pipe.
You pick up a spoon and once in a while you are triggered by a spoon.
You hear a song that is playing the first night you used and you start shaking and the girl with you has to calm you down because you are cutting up vetables but you feel like you jonsing for your next hit even though you haven’t used that substance in about a month.
You have drinking and using dreams, some which are weird and involve doing stuff you have never done before. Others which you wake up right before you about to get high in the dream and you are disappointed.
Or the dream feels so real that you wake up feeling high and think you lost your sobriety and have to start over.
When someone asks you how much you usually drink you say idk I loose track after 5-6.
You will use any mind alternating substance even if you don’t know what it is in hopes you will feel better and get high.
You have been to detox so many times they recognize you when you call.
You go to a treatment program get kicked out for using something you don’t remember using but is in your system and go screw it if they think I’m using I’m going to do it.
Someone accuses you of using and tells the staff at the psyc ward so they want to pee test you and your response is to leave and go get high because well if they thin I am using I might as well just use
You go to a treatment program complete it and two days later relapse.
The thought of dying is not that bad because you don’t want to live.
You feel trapped because you don’t want to use anymore but the pain is so deep you can’t handle it so you want to die but you don’t want to die and your just tortured inside.
When you go back to a place you did treatment at and you suddenly feel at home.
have spent so much time in hospitals, psyc wards, detoxs and treatment that you feel more comfortable there then in the real world.
……… and many more
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