I’ll try though I’m battling my own addictions. Drug/ alcohol use typically start as attempts to make you feel good. Takes your mind off stuff, makes you feel better, helps forget life’s stressors. Do it enough and you start to only feel good when using/ consuming. Then you feel miserable without it. So you keep doing it more often and your body, your mental sharpness, your health, your relationships all start to deteriorate. So you use more and more to distract you from those issues as well. Short periods of sobriety only give you an excuse to “celebrate” and your using again.

Then, god willing, a moment of awareness takes hold and a conviction to stop using becomes a goal. If you survive the “withdrawal” and continue on the path of sobriety long enough, you start to rebound. For example, I’m a functioning alcoholic so though I always took care of my kids, sobriety gave me stamina to cook better food, read to them regularly, have more patience, and not be exhausted regularly. I’m just a better parent now. The happiness I chased through excessive use was achieved through sobriety.

Don’t be afraid. The change you’ve made is positive. The things that drove you to drink were always there, but now you’ll have a chance to address them head on with your full faculties. Take it a step at a time though, healing takes time, don’t be afraid to take it slow, don’t let anyone else force you to any pace.

Does Mcnutt even have a job?

In addition, most of the time her partners were not abusive towards her, only to her children. She was not the one being abused, she enabled her partners to abuse me and my sibling. She is not a victim, she is both an abuser and an enabler. Do not defend someone you know nothing about while insulting someone else you know nothing about.

She has gone into relationships knowing that the person has drug or domestic violence charges against them. She has learned from then to choose her partners wisely instead of falling into the wrong crowd and just choosing anybody to father her child, which is what she did plain and simple. You do not know my mother, I’m not saying she deserved the abuse but she did know the kind of person she was dealing with before she started a relationship with them. Please don’t speak like you know somebody’s situation when you don’t.

Watch me try lol

As I’m sitting here on reddit in front of 3 very easy incomplete invoices

Update: 1.5 incomplete invoices & i’m back

My advice from some one that is 6 years clean and been there done that with addiction is to go to a detox then possibly half way house for a while , go to meetings and work steps and get a solid foundation of recovery under your belt. Secondly don’t worry about “the long road ahead” worry about staying your ass clean till you go to sleep each day one day at a time

Possibly he means that the void you try and fill with drugs can be filled with positivity and actual genuine spiritual experiences (human experience) rather that substances sobriety/being clean allow you a way to fill that void in a healthy way

If you were having problems in your life because of addiction, sobriety is actually the easier course to be on. I don’t mean that to sound unsympathetic or simplistic. Good luck.

This is the post that made me put down my phone and get to work. Didn't pick it up again for like 5 hours. Thank you!

Doooooo ittttt!!!!!!!

Always support those who recognize and seek help. Good job dude. You got this.

If you love her, it's not stalking.

Just....dooooo it.

Try that cocaine. You only live once! Just.....dooooooo it!

Just.....Dooooooo It.

It's the very best thing that has happened to me. At 500 days and it's a miracle after 40 years of drinking. You've got this. Going to meetings is valuable. So happy for your bright future.

Just act, you'll learn your lesson through experience

Helps a tiny bit. I definitely needed to read this.

I wish I was at where you’re at. Stay strong buddy

I second this but with Apple Watch for me. It’s best for not waking up a partner. I’ll set several alarms on my watch

Yay!!! I’m so proud of you for choosing yourself. 💜

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable and living into being human. Proud of you! 🙌you’ve got this. If you think you can you’re right, if you think you can’t, you’re also right.

Don't let your dreams be dreams.