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When can I ever feel like "living" again "post recovery"? When will I ever feel half-way normal again? Have desires and interests that "rock my world"? When can I ease up the feeling of just "going through the motions" of life? When will the time come where it is nice and fun and desirable to be involved with things and do things and well, basically,"live" again????? I've been off the s*** (meth) for years now and it aint' even near happening yet.
Does anyone have any answer at all for me?
Does anyone have any answer at all for me?
Moty,
Congratulations on keeping your addiction, firstly. While you're probably not always running at top speed, you're not killing yourself, either. I can't speak for others, but I DO know addictions and "normal" is not an option for me. In order for *ME* to experience something approaching a satisfying life I've got to let MY Higher Power guide me because I'd done everything in my own power to manage it by myself, establish my own expectations, and determine what "normal" was going to be. While I didn't break out in handcuffs, I pretty much knocked my d*** in the dirt enough times to FINALLY begin to realize that my "normal" was going to kill me and poison everyone around me.
When I give up control the weight of the world and my expectations of myself aren't nearly the burden I've made them. I'm at peace--and I don't EXPECT anything in return.
Now, admittedly, I babble on (because it's therapeutic to ME) but if my experiences and sharing them gives just a smidge of hope to someone else who was like me, then terrific, but it's all about me for me right now.
As with everything in life: Your results may differ.
Peaceness.
Congratulations on keeping your addiction, firstly. While you're probably not always running at top speed, you're not killing yourself, either. I can't speak for others, but I DO know addictions and "normal" is not an option for me. In order for *ME* to experience something approaching a satisfying life I've got to let MY Higher Power guide me because I'd done everything in my own power to manage it by myself, establish my own expectations, and determine what "normal" was going to be. While I didn't break out in handcuffs, I pretty much knocked my d*** in the dirt enough times to FINALLY begin to realize that my "normal" was going to kill me and poison everyone around me.
When I give up control the weight of the world and my expectations of myself aren't nearly the burden I've made them. I'm at peace--and I don't EXPECT anything in return.
Now, admittedly, I babble on (because it's therapeutic to ME) but if my experiences and sharing them gives just a smidge of hope to someone else who was like me, then terrific, but it's all about me for me right now.
As with everything in life: Your results may differ.
Peaceness.
