I smoke cigarettes and weed. but I don’t consider smoking weed a substance abuse problem, I’m not addicted. cigarettes, on the other hand…
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I have to smoke weed before bed, most nights, in order to sleep, buy that’s about it. I don’t even smoke cigarettes, anymore.
When I was 19, I would get drunk every day. I would even wake up and get drunk before work. Then I would come home and sit in the shower and get drunk after work. I never wanted to be sober.
One day I was driving home from a BBQ with my sister, and I was very drunk. Our truck broke down and we had to wait for a long time, for her bf to pick us up. I was suddenly overwhelmed by this feeling of doom, like the world was going to end. I was so afraid and sad at the same time. I began crying and sobbing really loud. Hyperventilating and couldn’t talk. My sister tried to calm me down but couldn’t. I don’t remember much after that, but I remember lying on my back in the middle of the road screaming, and my sister yelling at me to get out of the road. I also remembered sitting in the ditch and some guy pulled over to help us and was very concerned about me sitting in the dirt freaking out about existence.
I haven’t been drunk since that day.
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I’ve been looking for volunteer work and brushing up on rusty subjects lately. It looks like I will be a prison psychologist, I can see that. School starts in less than a month, so I am looking to do basic volunteer work at a mental hospital as well as shadow a professional for a few days.
I’ve sort of reeled in the over-achieving for a while, taking time to sort my head straight before going into the academic portion of the program, and then practicum is heavy starting the second year. It’s a lot to get ready for- basically I needed to learn up to date psychopharmacology, neuroscience, and human biology, now I have a good foundation in those and need to get some experience applying what I have learned.
But I am also enjoying some free time. I will probably be pretty busy very soon, probably next week.
I was on adderall but i didnt abuse it. I took like 5 mg twice a day if i remember correctly
Yes… temperance is the word of the day for me.
Don’t be like me.
My abuse of substances legal and illegal directly led to me developing schizophrenia. I used recreational substances very rarely but those few occasions triggered my psychosis.
Order of severity of addiction:
Nicotine, meth, weed, cocaine, alcohol, caffine, ecstasy, vicadin, mushrooms
Ive done or tried almost every substance there is along with these and abused most of them over the different periods of my life. These were/are the ones i really have trouble with and seriously struggle with or have had serious problem in the past with in. Always been a functioning addict on one illicit substance or another since about 15 or 16 yrs old, and still am at 31 now, although not functioning as well since the psychotic breaks over past few years.
Im think drugs had huge part in my developing this illness, considering i was doing LSD regularly by 14 yr old and full blown meth addict by 17 yr old. Although i think i showed signs of symptoms before the drug use, so who can be sure.