Hi, my name is Rick and I'm a recovering addict/alcoholic. I've been in recovery since I was 19 years old. I know how hard it can be to stay clean and sober especially when you're young. That is why I've started a new online support group called Youth in Recovery - www.youth-in-recovery.com - a place especially for young adults like myself in recovery. There is no requirement for membership - it doesn't matter how young/old you are, or what fellowship you are in - All are welcome. Please check out my site and join the discussion forum. Together we can help each other recover one day at a time, and help to carry the message of recovery to young people all over the world. Thanks in advance for your support!
- Rick F.
www.youth-in-recovery.com
hey, i know how u feel. when my mom left her husband the first time, we got an apartment. i got her away from him b/c she was addicted to meth and so was he and he was her supplier. he started to beat her b/c it got so bad. and you;d think tha tsince i got her away from him b/c i knew how bad the drugs were and could get, that i'd know better, but apparently everybody does make their own misteaks. ime -n- my friends would be on speed and weed for days on end. i don't know why i did it, i just did. we would get high and then my mom would stay at home and we'd all roll in to crash about 6 or 7 in the morning and sleep away the rest of our high. then when my mom found out, she wanted me to quit, so she promised that she'd never touch a drug again if i'd quit too. b/c her biggest fear wz 4 me to turn out like her. i love her to death, but i don't want to turn out like her. she's been on meth since i was six. well when i wz doin' drugs real bad, i became suuicidal. so when i quit, you can only begin to think u know what it wz like. i wouldn;t of been able to make it through w/o my b.f tiffiney and Marlon. my mom wz a big help too, but not long after i quit doin' drugs, my mom went back to her husband b/c she needed the drugs. well, he started hitting her and the drugs got A LOT worse, so i'd ask to go stay teh night somewhere, and it resorted to me running away, and i eventually got in2 drugs again. so when i started to do drugs again, i realized i wasn't no better than either of them. so i got my mom out of there and quit the drugs. i'll admit i wz an out-of-control child, but i'm working on it just as well as my mom got put in the state hospitol for a week and is now in rehab to get the help she needs. and she needs a lot. we're going through family counseling together, and yeah it takes a lot for her to discipline me, b/c she never did b4, but she tries her hardest. i love my mom to death and i couldn't live w/o her,so she cleaned up. yeah, sometimes when we fight she blames the overdose she took on me, but i know what it's like to be around drug attics 4 all ur life and what it's like to be on them. and yaeh, the feeling of flying high is great, nut there's a thing called reality u gotta live in and if u can't u gotta learn to live in it. it;s life deal w- it. life only sucks if u make it that way. make teh best of ur life. u don;t need drugs to have a good time. i learned u got more friends off drugs than on them. i used to be a HUGE loser, but i'm like REALLY popular now. more people'd rather be around sober smart people that messed up idot;s who r making misteaks and f******* up their lives.Trust me, i know from experience, life's better off drugs.
