How do you stop missing dope? i miss it like

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#1

how do you stop missing dope? i miss it like it was my best friend

#2

Hey :wave: the reason you miss it is that your addiction is not you, but it feels like you because you’ve spent so much intimate time together.
That time is ALL you know and your trying to recover the real you...the you that is worth recovery.

#3

You don’t. You just remind yourself where it took you. The pain it brought you. The satisfaction it gave you was only a temporary solution to the real reason why you feel the need to use. Working with a sponsor you trust can help you find out what you’re really missing in life.

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#4

I feel ya. But then I remember you don’t have to pay your best friend to hang out. Usually your bestie isn’t trying to kill you. A good best friend may get you locked up but they’ll get you out too. It’s just like any unhealthy relationship… there are parts that you remember as intensely good (but the memory is always amplified) but the rest is #^*}, they don’t care for you at all and the love is one sided.
You got this. Tell that #^%{ to pound sand.

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#5

I love how you put this

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#6

That’s because it was your best friend for so long. One thing that helped me from treatment was writing a goodbye letter to your substance. It comes off like a dear John letter but that’s because it was so important to you, but you can see everything it’s caused/taken from you even if there were some good times in it.

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