When you have nobody and the only friends you’ve had for years are substances? How do you fight the urge of f it, what’s the point?
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I’m kinda in the same boat and here if you want to support eachother💕
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You reach out to others. Ill be your friend.
Jessica, I was in the same boat. But I realized those substances weren’t my friends. Nor were the people I did those substances with.
So I went to in person AA & NA meetings every day and just listened for awhile. Then I met some people that I identified with and started talking with them. Some of them relapsed and died. And some of them became the best friends I ever had.
16 years of sobriety and I’m grateful I decided to go and wake the efff up!
I’m here if you want to talk.
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I felt like that for quite a while until I realized that I had zero friends substances included! I looked inside myself and found that I still love myself and wanted a better life. At that point I checked into rehab. Got clean. Went to a ton of meetings. I realized that I still have a lot to live for! I admitted to myself God and someone in NA that I was powerless over my addiction and need help. I listened to their suggestions. Took their advice and ever so slowly things got better.
I too am here if you want advice or just to talk
Getting clean can be lonely for sure, but try and take this time to get to know yourself better and love yourself more… I’m in the same boat, but I believe the right people will enter your life
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I’m on the same boat!!!! Sucks but I made the decision to seek help and change or I’ll be sick for a long time! Hang in there
I'm here for you if you ever need someone to talk too
It’s basically just like starting all over again, it’s hard but when you start meeting people in the right places , meetings, sober events , the gym if you work out etc. your relationships /friendships you form will actually have substance and real value. It’s one day at a time but trust me Jessica things will slowly become better and easier along the way. Trust God , clean house and maybe sometime soon you will be able to help someone like yourself.
The point is you are worth a new life. You’ll find new friends and ppl who want to see you succeed in life and help you get another day clean if you let them
Substances are not friends - maybe it feels that way at first cause when we interact with them we feel over the moon. Down the line we fall into this habit of dependency that becomes toxic - that's not a healthy friendship. I believe there is a decent recovery community up in Buffalo - you have the opportunity to make new connections with people as well as work on repairing damaged ones from the past. It'll take time and ultimately patience and resilience will keep you moving forward. You got this!
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I feel this. I have zero friends. I talk to my partner, my therapist and my partners mom. That’s all I got. I just keep telling myself there’s a reason for my journey and I believe you will find yours. You have to completely build a new you and life. New habits, new activities, new goals. The point is for a happier, healthier you! 
You need to find new friends.
Work on yourself and learn to be happy with your new life as a person in sobriety
If they was really your friends they would understand that your trying to be sober if not there not real friends true friends would respect that..I believe in you. You got this let's go