How do you cope with not being able to do drugs

Hi

So how do you handle being sober every day? I mean it’s not that hard, I got over the weed smoking, too many negatives. But I wanna drop some acid, some mdma or some speedd and I keep fantasizing and dreaming about it. I still have a psychedelic stash laying around but haven’t touched it since the episode. Not that it’s gonna work anyway with the meds.

It also bothers me I can’t do stressful activities, I like to live on the edge, travel, be a night freak, do dangerous stuff etc… It’s like a part of my life has been taken away, I have to be a sane person that avoids stress. I used to revel in my madness and it was fun, till it wasn’t anymore.

There is more to life, but sonmetimes I just need a break from the mundane…

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There came a time in my life where it was time to let that kinda thing go, it was that or my life. Get high on life instead, do some introspection

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You’ll always want to do drugs until you can answer why you want to do drugs? Until you can face why you want to escape reality and then deal with it, then the calling to live in a fantasy, high world will always be appealing.

The problem is that these questions are never asked, or your subconscious mind actively avoids these problems and to cope you find solace in drugs. I certainly did. The grim reality of your past must be faced and instead of running away from that tornado, counterintuitively you run straight into it.

It often takes counselling and therapy like EMDR to cope with it, however, until you do you can spend your whole life running away from the storm which inevitably follows you everywhere you go.

Hope this helps. :slight_smile:

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Alcohol was my drug of choice. I had to quit because I would get drunk and do crazy things I didn’t remember doing. It was just a matter of time until I got in real trouble with the law.

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You just have to deal with the boredom. Eventually the thoughts will go away

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If you want psychosis again, the other bad health effects of drugs, the financial burden of drugs, being badly viewed by society and the trouble with law enforcement, go ahead. Drugs are bad regardless of your sz. I have never done drugs and will never do. Drug induced psychosis is a thing.

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I did hard drugs once and it triggered my SZA
Never again.

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I quit using pot and cocaine after I overdosed and my heart stopped. Don’t wait for it to get there. They can’t always restart the heart. I haven’t used in 23 years

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I dont do drugs - cos i always, and i mean always - end up getting arrested for disorderly behaviour. It turns me into an arsehole - and im talking about weed.

Drink - i turn into a depressive and start crying over stupid shite.

In all honesty “most” of the time i get just as much enjoyment out of a hot chocolate lol. But the drink does grab me by the balls now and again - and i always regret it.

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I’m Joe Sixpack and my wife is Sally Housecoat…she’ll have a glass of wine maybe every month or so.

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I do tobacco, sugar and caffeine. No need for other drugs.

Wonderfully. I used to love my drugs and my alcohol but now I don’t need them, I don’t want them, I never do them and I don’t miss them.

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Exactly how I feel about it. Doing drugs attracts the wrong people and it drags you down a path that’s hard to walk away from

Can be done though.

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food is my drug. i am not coping well without it atm.it is very difficult.

I’m scared of a real addiction like meth or heroin
The only real thing I’m comfortable with is drinking sometimes, it’s cheap, easy, and legal and I can drink all I want
I can’t afford a more addictive habit and I don’t wanna go to jail…

Anyway - I only drink some times but it’s just better than hard drugs :upside_down_face:

I fall off the wagon from time to time. When I use I feel like crap. It reminds me not to do it.

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I wonder how many of the above are on antidepressants because reality is so bad without drugs that they can’t cope… :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I quit smoking 5 years ago. I don’t miss it and I can imagine the difficulty I would have to go through with keeping my supply of tobacco during the quarantine. I don’t need that dependency.

I have never done street drugs, but abuse my prescribed meds. :sheep::sheep::sheep: