I remember back in the late 1980’s when I was addicted to crack, one day I was driving around in my dad’s Cadillac looking for drugs and ran into someone I had partied with before.
My dad had just put new tires and rims on all four wheels and this guy offered to trade me a couple of rocks of crack for all four new tires. I thought it sounded like a good idea at the time so I agreed. We pulled down a side street and he took off all four tires and rims off my dad’s car and put his own rims and tires on the car.
The thing was each rim and tire on his car was different from each other. I don’t know how I thought I was going to get away with this but I drove home. Me and my dad used to go out to eat or to the movies all the time so every time we went out to the car I would distract my dad so he wouldn’t notice the different tires. Incidentally, my dad had spent about $600 for those new tires.
This worked for about a week and then one day we were leaving to go somewhere and he got a puzzled look on his face. He was looking at a tire and he cocked his head and studied it and then he noticed all four wheels were different. Busted!
He confronted me and all I could do was admit what I had done. My dad had never hit me in my whole life except to spank me as a kid and he had a terrible temper but I thought for sure he was going to punch me. But he just got mad and disappointed in me.
It was stupid of me to do, my only excuse was I was on drugs and not thinking. One of the stupider things I did in my addiction. I got clean 35 years ago and haven’t done anything that bad since I got clean.
Dude what were you thinking to smoke crack in the first place? That stuff was notorious for being the worst drug someone could use. I used alcohol and marijuana and give no glory in any way to doing these things. I was totally stupid. Even nicotine is ridiculous..
When I was a kid me and a few punks would break into fast food restaurants and demolish them..We also did gas stations. I also broke into cars, I stoled rims and cd players and speakers. It was all I knew at that age. All of my friends were trouble makers. They were a bad influence on me. Eventually you couldn’t tell us apart. We would play basketball and at least once a week someone would pull out a gun on the court and we’d all scatter. Two people I knew got shot and murdered where I live, Shannon, a blood who died over drug money and tommy, a crip, who died in a gang fight. I grew up in a dumpy section 8 apartment. Everyone in there was on drugs. A lot of crackheads walking around at night. The guys I knew sold them drugs. A lot of whores in that apartment complex and a lot of people who have been in and out of prison. I went there with a buddy last year to reminisce. The next day a kid got shot there. Still a dump. My buddy earl used to steal golf carts at night. Hotwire them. And we would drive around at night high. Your story made me think of my past a little. I live by the water now in a house in a decent area. It’s all retired people. It’s so peaceful. I mostly stay in the house now because I know what’s waiting out in the streets. I usually drive to Detroit once a year to visit some of my friends, but the schz has me delusional so much. I believe this girl who stalked me in college is all around town stalking me. I can’t tell what’s real a lot of times. So I’m just gonna talk to them over the phone. Good things.
Yeah, I was never a hardcore druggie like that doing the type of things you did. I shouldn’t have got addicted to drugs in the first place, later I met many die hard addicts in CA and NA who most of them did way worse things than me.
I used to be a social drinker. I stopped. I tried pot and salvia and got schizophrenia. I don’t remember much anymore and my memory is not accurate, but I think it was 20x extract. I got addicted to cigarettes when I got schizophrenia and I am currently addicted to Monster Energy Drinks.
I have an OCD-type personality and an obsessive personality. I had hallucinations on Vraylar for a few years and it might be related to drinking 10 monsters a day…every day…for years…
I got diagnosed with Paranoid schizophrenia, undifferentiated schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and OCD, anxiety, depression, acute stress disorder, and even Asperger’s Syndrome.
I regret trying pot and especially salvia. My schizophrenia might have happened later on down the road instead of at 22 years old. I have a moderate case.
I quit drinking alcohol and I hate being addicted to energy drinks, which kind of gets laughed at by not being a serious addiction. It’s expensive and not healthy.
I used to smoke 3 packs a day when I first got sick to deal with the anxiety and stress. I’m down to 20-30 cigarettes a day now.
I mainly suffer from delusions and lack of motivation. I have negative symptoms and lack energy and have cognitive impairment/decline.
I’m working on quitting energy drinks. I’m down to 3 a day now.
As far as I know, my schizophrenia happened suddenly due to a psychotic break. I had no symptoms before that except difficulties studying and passing my math classes. I noticed memory loss and cognitive decline.