I can’t stop using… pls.. how can I stop
Get plugged into a program: AA, The Luckiest Club, SMART Recovery, Recovery Dharma, Women for Sobriety, Celebrate Recovery. Read some quit lit: Girl Walks Out of a Bar, We Are the Luckiest, Quit Like a Woman, Lit, Untamed. Listen to some podcasts about recovery: She Recovers, Seltzer Squad, Recovery Rocks.
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Hi Joy! I commend you for coming in here and asking for help! That’s a huge first step! Jenn just listed a lot of options that can help you. We do this together, so continue to reach out for help. Ask questions and get educated. We are here to help each other!
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So to explain, I’m still pretty new to recovery but I been in some fellowships for a couple months now. I went to rehab, then relapsed HEAVY the day I got out and continuously and constantly from then on. Then dec 1st I was finally actually down good- I had somehow amazingly got a week! then 2, then 3, I got up to 23 days! I have been going through the trenches and been in the shits since day 8 and eventually I broke and I slipped. Well i told myself just for an hour or two. next thing I knew, it was 5 days later, I hadn’t slept a blink, and had been using and was still doing dope the whole time. I didn’t even know how uncontrollable i become, now I’m starting to see that again. I still go to meetings cause honestly i don’t want to restart my 90 in 90. But i can’t physically stop myself from compulsively using. like I’m just stuck in an endless loop just using and using, it’s been a week since I first relapsed and started using again. I don’t want to NOT come back to recovery and everything, but I feel that future and my willpower to reach it slipping away
Joy, you need to fill your days so that you can’t use. Go to so many meetings that there isn’t enough time to use. Get a sponsor so that you can meet up with them. Reach out to people in your meetings and meet up with them. Do recovery like you use.
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