Who and what caused you to stop abusing drugs/alcohol?!
Question: Who and what caused you to stop abusing drugs/alcohol!?
If you or someone you know is a recovering alcoholic or drug abuser, I'd like to know what made you want to change your life!. Was it an intervention, someone you know talking to you about it!? Did you hit rock bottom!? Did you just one day decide!? I really want to help a family member with this problem and I'd like to understand the process!. Right now, they have no desire to change!.(or so it seems)Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
I'm a recovered alcoholic!. I was never in denial about it, didn't want to be an alcoholic, but it was the only thing that allowed me to live with my depression!.
That nonsense about needing to "hit bottom" is just that, nonsense!. That's like something being in the last place you looked; of course it was, when you found it you quit looking!. A person's botton is wherever they were when they started going back up!. I didn't need to go as low as I did, and wouldn't have if I had gotten the proper mental health help that I had been begging to get for years!. And if I hadn't gotten help when I did, I would have hit a lower bottom!.
Over the years, I kept looking for help with depression, and I'd be sent to 12step groups with promises of mental health help at 3 months or 6 months, but I never get it and the depression was crippling!. I'd become suicidal and return to drinking!.
I couldn't afford good help and for decades, I was too proud to go to Social Services!. I finally did, then still had to fight tooth and nail to get the promised services, and once I did, drinking became a non-issue!.
I now work in mental health and see this sort of thing often!. According to NIMH, half of all alcoholics and up to 75% of all addicts have underlying an mental illness!. Untreated, their chances of recovery are almost nil!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
That nonsense about needing to "hit bottom" is just that, nonsense!. That's like something being in the last place you looked; of course it was, when you found it you quit looking!. A person's botton is wherever they were when they started going back up!. I didn't need to go as low as I did, and wouldn't have if I had gotten the proper mental health help that I had been begging to get for years!. And if I hadn't gotten help when I did, I would have hit a lower bottom!.
Over the years, I kept looking for help with depression, and I'd be sent to 12step groups with promises of mental health help at 3 months or 6 months, but I never get it and the depression was crippling!. I'd become suicidal and return to drinking!.
I couldn't afford good help and for decades, I was too proud to go to Social Services!. I finally did, then still had to fight tooth and nail to get the promised services, and once I did, drinking became a non-issue!.
I now work in mental health and see this sort of thing often!. According to NIMH, half of all alcoholics and up to 75% of all addicts have underlying an mental illness!. Untreated, their chances of recovery are almost nil!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Making this person aware of what people are saying/thinking is a start, however you can talk until your blue in the face and probably will not see results!. Until, this person makes the decision himself/herself to quit using!. And yes, it usually is after one has hit rock bottom and have lost something/someone that loves them!. Your support will be appreciated when the time comes!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I just got sick of spending the money on weed!. The paranoia on the road and the intense hunger and thirst didn't appeal to me anymore!. Some seem to think that the weed helps pain but it dosen't once you come down from the high then you end up smoking more and more!. Its just not worth the money, paranoia, and killing your brain cells over!.Www@Answer-Health@Com