Im ready to stop using drugs but i feel like whats the point in being better when everyone else in the world is so fucked up i feel like it's literally me against the whole world
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It can be a super lonely place to be. Unfortunately I am in the same spot as you are. Iâm ready too and yet itâs not easy. Even finding the help is proving difficult and honestly I didnât think it would be.
I feel this.. its hard to have hope in improving your life when the world feels doomy.
But magic happens during sobriety and one day it actually does feel better. Even on the hardest days.
Because through sobriety we learn to cope, understand and sit with our feelings. These are powerful things when you feel powerless.
Itâs worth it because you are worth it⌠and while it doesnât feel that way tonight It could one day.
There is so much to gain
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You can't defeat the world while in addiction.
Jonathan, you owe it to yourself to get and stay clean. Don't worry about everyone else. No point in living in misery.
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If you're ready, then stop. Don't complicate things.
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âNothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty⌠I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them wellâ -Teddy Roosevelt
I look to that quote when I am struggling. Itâs going to be the hardest thing you ever do in your life and you will have to work on it every day for the rest of your life but I promise in the end it will be worth it. Itâs going to be scary, uncomfortable, lonely and plain shitty but you can do it. Do be afraid to fail. If you fall you can get back up and start again. Every single one of us has done it before. As babies we crawled and countless times we fell while learning to walk but eventually we got there. I look at my addiction as crawling. I had been in a perpetual state of crawling and am learning to walk again. You can do this we are all here for you
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*Donât be afraid to fail
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Your depressive outlook of the world will improve with sobriety. Give yourself a chance.
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Just be bullish about your sobriety. Itâs yours. Donât let anybody mess with it. Then be the best âyouâ you can be each day and see what happens in your life
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Thank you for that man that really hit me to my soul that was definitely word i needed to hear today I've been so stressed lately nothing has been going right for me and all i have been thinking is i need to get high just to escape the bs meas that is my life right now thank you for your kind words man it really means alot
Tell me about it the stay in rehabs cost way too much hotlines aint really shit and the rehab where u go for a hour all that does is make u wanna get high when u leave cause all u do is talk about getting high while your there smh i wish u could take a pill and the cravings could just be gone completely
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Jonathan, when I was drinking, I thought everyone drank. Because we naturally surround ourselves by people who basically exist like we do. Friends. Jobs. Lovers. Even family members and offspring tend to have very similar ways.
The whole world isnât fucked up. Our world is. And we can change that.
Everything else we must accept as it is. We ask for serenity to do so.
Your addiction will tell you whatever it can to get you to keep using. Thatâs the nature of the disease. But deep down if you truly want sobriety, itâs as close as 12 steps away.
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Trust me, we are just as screwed up as the rest of them. The advantage is, if we stick around the rooms of AA/NA long enough, we become aware of our character defects and have a God who can remove them.
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Thatâs our disease talking! Positive thinking about the world you live in and youâll see a huge difference in what is attracted to you. Negative thinking brings negative consequences. Positive thinking brings positive consequences. Now if you have a few negative things pop up and you truly were in positive thinking mode, then Iâd say itâs part of your path. See the negative but donât react to it. Itâs out actions that give the thinking power.
Stay focused on the gift of sobriety. It gets better everyday we put in the work. God is love
That is the very reason you should stop. You're a king a unique unrepeatable reflection of God. You have the power to break through the bondage of carnal desire. You have the power to speak life, love and peace over your everyday encounters. You can do it. I promise you you can. Of course some days will be better than others, but nonetheless you have the power of God moving to your body. Use it.
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