Addiction struggles?

[Craiga 01453]

Good for you!!! Keep it up, my friend.

I'll have 6 years in December. I lived that nightmare for 15 years. I got a bit of a late start, compared to many, but once I started I hit it hard. Started with booze and pot, within a few months I was drinking daily and never looked back. Then I found drugs, and never looked back. I had about 10 sober days in 15 years, with various failed attempts to get sober...

I hit my bottom after relapsing on pills after I broke my leg at work. I knew I'd be dead or in jail real soon if I didn't get clean and sober. I OD'd and was legally dead for 4-6 minutes according to EMTs. Narcan and paddles on my chest saved my life. If they were a minute later getting there I wouldnt be here today... I shot up again 2 days later... I decided I needed to hit a meeting, I was tired of trying and failing on my own. I made it through 3 days of shaking, puking, crying, the worst physical and mental pain I've ever felt...but I made it. And I promised myself I wouldn't go through that another time.

I hit the meetings hard for the first year, but havent been in about 4 years. I guess I just needed to learn how to get sober from people like me who've lived like I had.


....anyway, keep up the good work!!! Life is actually worth living once you find a way out of that hell we called a life...