Having sz or sza and being an alcoholic or drug addict is as hard as it gets. You can’t successfully treat one without the other. I’m glad I’m clean right now, my life is so much better but I must never forget how vulnerable I am. I could slip up anytime. Do you have a dual diagnosis? Are you clean? What do you do to support your recovery?
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Crack and schizophrenia. Been clean since January, 1990. I have no desire for booze or drugs and don’t miss them.
I haven’t been to an AA meeting in quite awhile. But I got years of going to five or six meetings a week in me. I do a couple of things for my recovery still. I don’t hang around people who drink or use and I avoid places where drinking and drugging is going on and I still occasionally read the Big Book or daily meditation books of inspirational passages.
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yup 20 years clean is pretty darn good
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Clean and sober 27 years (Feb 15, 1992). The culprits were:
- booze
- amphetamines
- weed
- cigs
I’m now an AA old-timer. Turn 51 next month, sobered up when I was 23. Took some flak from older members, but, whatever. I still attend AA meetings and sponsor a few newcomers. Also have been DXed with SZ since 1994 I think, that’s still a bit hazy. Crappy year, that one.
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congratulations, 27 years is a good job
Thankee, but it’s still the day you’re in that you have to be vigilant. Cunning, baffling, powerful, right?
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right. This much I’ve learned over the years. I must stay vigilant.
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I’m dual diagnosed. Alcohol is my poison. It’s been two years and nine months since I last drank. What helped me most was that both of the only two stores in town that sold beer shut down. I could get alcohol, but I would have to go to considerable trouble to get it.
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congratulations on your 2 years 9 months and having those stores close was for the best.
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I have only schizophrenia. I’ve never tried drugs and I’m not alcoholic. And I don’t smoke. So I’m clean.
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I think I had three beers once. Since going back on my meds last October.
Maybe I’ll drink again. But naltrexone makes it so I don’t get pleasure so I’m not worried about my alcoholic tendencies so much anymore.
I had used Vicodin and kratom before starting naltrexone and liked it. Opiates are a thing I avoided by a few feet.
Actually the only 4 drugs that I’ve found that even “work” on my meds are weed, ketamine, ambien and benzos.
I like my weed and ketamine.
I’m never using ambien again. And benzos I know too badly what they do, so I just use it as I should. Medically. Klonopin is a great medicine for me when I use it as I should. Actually never had a problem abusing benzos regularly. But have had 2 bad individual episodes with klonipin where I took too much.
I’m just the person who needs a certain level of relief in their system.
Last time I went to rehab trying to quit pot mostly I went 29 days I was fine. Then day 30 I lost my mind and relapsed on day 44. Well I feel if I ever wanted to put down the joint completely maybe I could ask my pdoc for an increase in klonopin to help me not go so crazy without pot. It’s not like it gets me too high. But if I took 2.0 mg klonopin per day, maybe I could be sober. But I have an anxious mind naturally. So I’d need something 
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Alcholic and schizophrenia here. 5.5 years sober.
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Way to go on the 5.5 years sober, that’s amazing.
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Schizophrenia and former addiction.
I was severely addicted to marihuana and also drank too much.
I still drink from time to time, but nowhere near the volumes I used to, nor frequency. We’re talking maybe once every other month.
I’ve been clean for four years 
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congratulations on 4 years
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I’m a reaction to stress drinker . The vast majority of time I don’t drink, but there have been a number of times when I’ve drunk a lot of alcohol quickly in order to crash out .
The last time was about 10 years ago.
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