Overcoming Addiction with Schizophrenia

Any tips/recommendations for this endeavor? I want to get clean, specifically from opiates, but they help me feel sane and stable. What should I do? Have you done it successfully before?

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I had quite a problem with hard drugs for a long time. I don’t really know how I got off them. Been off street drugs for 10 years. Had a few minor run ins with pain meds for an operation and some teeth problems since then but I just follow the directions. I guess the biggest thing that changed is I only take what the doctor prescribes and always try my best to follow the instructions on the bottle. I think the biggest help for me was an increase in the psyc meds. I think I might have been trying to self medicate…

i want give you the motivational speech about my triumph over my addiction to pr0n, but an opiate addiction is far more severe than a pr0n addiction.

talking to a doctor might help though. and maybe joining a recovery group too. a recovery group was something that I wish I could join when I was struggling with pr0n, but not many people take pr0n addiction seriously, so I was kind-of on my own.

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Maybe you should think about checking yourself in to an addiction treatment center. Kicking opiates is a tall order. You might need help to do it.

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I struggled a lot with drinking. It helped me to get properly medicated, because it addressed the underlying cause behind why I drank. But opiate addiction is harder than alcohol. It might help to get a doctor or treatment professional involved.

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I got addicted to crack in 1986. I smoked it pretty steadily and went through a boatload of bad experiences with it for four years. The usual stuff. Cops, violence, sex, poverty, risking my life and others and my health, drug dealers, hookers. The full deal. I got clean in AA, CA, and NA in 1990. I haven’t touched drugs or alcohol since.

!2-step programs don’t help everybody but they helped me and hundreds of other people I met in meetings.

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Schizophrenia and opiate addiction is not the same. But schizophrenia causes pain, and the pain is confounded on drugs which is not the solution. I got some criticism for my view that while shamans might use psychedelics or tobacco in ritual it is not a solution to mental illness. This is my view on using psychedelics like DMT for spiritual escape or purposes. I see plants for what they are. Chemicals with specific effects. Food is full of important vitamins and minerals. I believe Vitamin B cleanses and detoxes the blood however I have not researched that. I started taking vitamin E and I take vitamin B and niacine almost daily. It has raised my blood sugar because it was through energy drinks, but I realized vitamin B is very helpful and so is niacine as was once suggested by a man who studied schizophrenia. Orthomolecular psychiatry is the alt. concept of treating mental health with vitamins. It is not as common in psychiatry however the research is still there and is becoming more widely accepted and studied.

The issue is defining terms and process in resolving symptoms of schizophrenia. Today a psychiatrist can prescribe or recommend a vitamin alongside medication. Medical marijuana is being approved for research. I can foresee it being used widely in the future as an adjunct medicine for nerve diseases along with vitamin B complex and Niacine. I love studying neuroscence and biology it’s a good distraction if I am depressed to learn about something. I have been friends with recovering addicts and it is often an issue because if I’m around someone who is abusing drugs I will leave the situation.

I don’t like the drug scene and the same way shamans might use mushrooms for spiritual good is the same reason you can use a drug for evil or something spiritually wrong. This is why I am opposed to that. Hippies got it wrong in the 60’s and yeah I’m all for freedom of expression but LSD acid cocaine its made to hurt you and was developed to hurt people for the same reason. Just because you have after-effects of heavy opiate or drug addiction doesn’t mean you can’t detox and start over.

I recovered from paranoid schizophrenia and went through a year where I decided the Abilify was too much for me and took a med vacation. I smoked a bit. It was a learning process. We all make mistakes. But it improved my ability to cope with anxiety and stress. Before that I was put on ADHD stimulants to combat anxiety and paranoia. The weed was better on me than ADHD stimulants because I was not hyper or irritable and it cured the symptoms and the cause. The reason is the chemical nature of weed. It has an effect of detoxification and pushes the blood and nerves to behave in creative ways but it can stress your system and burn you out if you smoke too heavily. If that happens it might have a counter-intuitive effect. But don’t buy weed from people if it’s not legal because in places it’s criminalized then criminals lace it with PCP and miranol and it can have bad psychological effects time if you smoke weed that isn’t pure over a period of time mixed with other drugs in it.

Don’t abuse pills. It makes me sick I can’t listen to music about doping or using drugs. It makes me sick. Yeah a lot of people think it’s ok and opiates have an amazing effect on me. I had tinnitus and was prescribed vicodine after tooth surgery when I was eighteen. I recently found a little notebook where I was writing about how it was affecting me. Toward the end of then diary all I’m talking about is vicodine. I had forgotten about it. Pray. Pray to God. Find faith in something beyond yourself that you can reach for when you’re feeling sad or drowning. I am an extremely eccentric and deep person so people like me tend to brush with it. Like the beatnicks who used absinth etc. it’s immature and petty. Hope you can find the strength to overcome this addiction.

I don’t know. There’s got to be a better way to get clean than using schizophrenia. It seems like using schizophrenia just to get clean would be counter-productive.

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I got clean off alcohol and street drugs by realizing all the stuff I was doing was hurting all the people I loved. I woke up after detoxing in the hospital and realized the next stop would most likely be jail.

I wish you the best, and I apologize if I can’t offer any better advice. I second though what previous posters have said about the 12 step programs and finding a Higher Power.

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I’ve been clean off heroin for 3 years. Ive been to rhenmethadone clinic and it’s just as addicting so I suggest Suboxone. I got clean cold turkey the last time and found out I was pregnant soon after so that kept me motivated to stay clean. I’m always here if you need a support group for schizophrenia or opiate addiction.

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I’ve been off marijuana for about a year now. By no means am I recovered but certainly moving in the right direction. I’ve gone to MA (marijuana anonymous) meetings, but the support of family has been instrumental in my recovery. Plus getting older, the desire to use has decreased as I’ve aged.

I had a problem with prescription opioids (and a few other meds which I would mix). I took them so I could drown my sorrows in sleep. I felt ashamed of what I was doing, though, and I worried about all the time that I was losing with my family. All of a sudden, my kids were teenagers, and I was still sleeping life away. I wanted more, so I told my husband. He helped me through it. We weaned me off of it, but he had to control my meds throughout. My husband still has control of all of my meds, except for my migraine meds and Lidoderm (which I use instead of opioids for pain now), and he only gives me one day of meds at a time. That’s how I did it/ do it.

It IS possible to quit. I think the most important thing is recognizing that there is a problem and wanting to fix it. After that, you have to get help. I’d really recommend a treatment center. Either way you go, using drugs as an excuse for schizophrenia just doesn’t seem right. It’s an addiction. Your mind is clouded. There are other meds that can help with the schizophrenia that will be more effective once you are off of the opioids. It’s not perfect, but it’s how we survive.

There is a dual diagnosis 8 month intensive day treatment program where I live that teaches you therapy as well as techniques to overcome addiction. I think you would benefit a lot from such a program.

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