Rituals And Their Effect On Opiate Addiction And Recovery 

love what you said about how when you finally find the drug and have it in your possession, a calm sweeps over you and almost kills the withdrawal symptoms. so true

I'm really pissed that you was taken away from the recovery world! RIP Ryan Donnelly!

When you said that you realize that your addiction is within reach, and you have it and can take it whenever you want, and you get this calm feeling, your withdrawal symptoms will go away, I broke down. My husband will always point out that my mood ALWAYS changes when I get the pain pill to stop my withdrawals, before I even took it. I can't believe how relieved I was when I heard that, and how normal it apparently is.

Only good die young. R.I.P brother, you deserve it. You must be an angel now, helping our tortured souls from above.

Man... took a long time for me to get clean. ..ibogaine. .40 cold turkeys and finally I realized. .. it wasn't the drug.. it was my relationship to reality.

So very true-i used to be deathly sick then as soon as I knew it was on its way I felt so much better-the power of the mind is amazing

So true!! I'm on day 9. Walks everyday. Runs Days 6 and 7, those 2 days were the best I had had. Yesterday didn't do my walk and it was my day off. Laid around all day eating chinese food lol. NO ENERGY. Got a little depressed and really wanted a perk or 325...GET YOUR ASS UP!! Thank you Ryan, you have gotten me through this.

meditation calms me down or music 🎵🍃🗻day 25

Thanks Ryan. It's an interesting topic I never thought about, but you're absolutely right about the rituals and everything associated with the use.

You real BROTHER WE NEED YOU

Your right dude, I never thought about it, I would show up to work and be sick in the parking lot but knew I was good the moment my coworker showed up. Popped em and walked in good bein sick AF 2 minutes ago. I'm gona try and tap into that mental power now. Good video dude

Thank you Ryan, the mind is so powerful. To think we can think our way to sickness or wellness and that many of us choose sickness and its not even a conscious choice. I have begun to deliberately think something positive and say something positive. Its about retraining your brain and its hard to do in the beginning especially when you feel like death.

good job ryan. day 20

Exercise, diet/clean eating and meditation is HUGE! Another great powerful post. I'd feel dead tired but force my body and mind to the gym and every time with out question after words I felt reborn. Add and ice bath after exercise and it'll triples that rewarding feeling. Been a practitioner of meditation for over 15 years. Started out 5mins than 10,15,20,30mins to an hour at times. While practicing it's weird, it could be 5 minutes in two 20 but all of sudden your mind just shuts off and you find that peace. Best recovery ritual advice worked for me

Since my cousin has been clean and started vivitrol treatment we have been going to the gym together and this is the best I have seen him in years... And it has helped me so much too... Great perspective on rituals...happy you found happiness

I finally got off a 7 year opiate dependency and on my 7th day free I got pancreatitus and spent 5 days in hospital. Was getting massive amounts of narcotics as you can imagine. I was very concerned that when I got out I was going to have to go thru it again but actually very little withdrawl afterwards. Thank God

Thank you Ryan. The coffee connoisseur is a excellent analogy in relation to our rituals. I was aware of the way water breaks down blood cells, so there's that. Plus I have all sorts of issues related to being an injector. As a plus tho "living happily ever after" is something I am now anxiously looking forward to :) On the serious side (and to dissuade others from injecting) I want to share and say that I do have medical problems related to being an injector. Most people who inject have some kind of issues because we are not Dr.'s as much as we think we know. My liver enzymes and my white blood cell counts are out of whack. I have numbness and intense pain in my fingers and my hands. On my right hand the tips of my pinky finger, ring finger and middle finger are permanently numb. The problems started small and I thought it was just bad circulation or from falling asleep in a weird position but my Dr. said it's likely nerve damage. I have pain that wakes me up from a dead sleep, it is a intense burning, stinging type of pain which wakes me up numerous time during the night. Consider, too, that I am not totally naive about harm reduction either, in so far as, I thought that I had good "technique." This is the damage I did by injecting into my forearms and hands. That is the truth about what happens when you inject while you are wasted (or not when you are not) and you are just Joe Schmoe...

Ryan u are a wise young man u have not let me down on any of your videos I went all the way back to free from hell when u first started wide option your brain was going 90 miles an hour god bless u help me get thru detox an many others thank u please keep up the good work are words amen

ugh i used to dip skol too, man lately i've been remembering all the nasty vices i used to have -_-

I used to clean my house really good before I'd get high so that I could veg in a clean space. Because when I came out of it I shurly wouldn't feel like cleaning, lol.

You don't have to relive your past to convince us of anything. Tell us though, what new rituals do you fill your life with? If not watching the ballgame, what are you doing now? Sometimes we just need to know which channel to switch it to, in order to break old habits. Great work dude. I have a, uh, friend on day two of methadone withdrawal. God is good

What you said about the feeling when you’re sick and you know it’s on the way or in the next min or so, the wds def do subside for a brief moment.

The rituals! 1 of my main reasons I can't take it anymore! Health was always my thing and I feel disgusting! Day #4

i am new to the channel...your vid on ORT was great ! can you read stories of those struggling / succeeding with sub-methadone specifically OR do they get taken down ?

I can personally say that is true I would be so sick as soon as I got back in the car I felt great before even doing it

so true that placebo effect

canot exercise because of my degenerative disc .. but I can walk for 20 min twice a day .. and this helps .. walk .. walk .. walk

coffee (caffeine) is truly an addiction as well...and I would agree that the biggest coffee addicts have the biggest rituals surrounding it.

R.I.P Mr. Donnelly. You'll never be forgotten.

Hey Ryan question when going thru withdrawals does testosterone go up because my head and face get greasy af and im breaking out on my face and chest and im aggressive af too trying to fight everyone any thoughts?

I'm laying here right now thinking why dont I have energy. #day 4

The rituals suck lol, oh I wanna play golf I have to take, oh I'm driving home I have to take, I don't want to but I have to to accomplish these things. Sucks.