What Are The First Steps Of Addiction Recovery 

Good luck. Do whatever it takes to get better

Proud of you, do it

While your there look at the twelve steps

Hi dear how are you now? Dear God we ask tha you purge him Totally of these things. help him leave a clean life. Give him strength good Father to say"No" to ungodliness. Amen. please do well let us Know how you are doing now 🙏

I want to grant you safe passage

Good job. Keep it up.

@@erictheboringone5292 abso-freaking-lutly 👍. Let's see 30 years of being strung out mainly on heroin and cocaine ( but did about all of it) over a million dollars , homeless , near hopeless, with legal issues . Fast forward from 4 and a half years to now. I do a little bit if prescribed marijuana seldomly. I do like mushrooms and have been wonderful medicine for severe depression , PTSD, and even spiritually has rebounded my beliefs with higher power but have ........ Got off legal issues in half time,, have an apartment but moving into a bigger better place, have 2 vehicles and plow, pushing near 50k annually without any trained skills, self taught and started my own painting business that is only growing and doing well, have thousands in brand new Ridgid/ echo/ Graco tools, just got a bunch of nice equipment for my growing hobby, next move is investing in houses. Thats the more material side of things but still kinda necessary. The other side is I don't miss being dope sick , having to worry about the police, my family is worried sick and mended relationships, man it sure is a blessing to have actual " friends" people with my interest in mind on my side that I can trust, ( holly shit that's a big one 😂) , positive and reachable goals that I knock out of the park, was never a horrible looking dude but get vibes from allot healthier of women , the list of pros keep growing and the list of cons keep shrinking even though I lost the desire to use a few years ago. It's allot nicer to have not enough time in a day than a day being to long! Things are o.k today . My problems are of luxury compared to what they was. Like it's when I'm finally learning and enjoying to be alone , no drugs and no women that the better ones start coming around . 😂 Go figure. But that's not really an issue like am I going to go to prison today. Am I going to get a bad batch of dope. Am I going to be sick cause I can't get dope. Can go on and on with this. Life is starting to be o.k my friend 👍. We reap what we sow . But anyway thanks for the line. I wish your journey to be well . 👍

truly makes me happy to hear this. I'm still in active addiction for 27yrs now. I hate it but your success helps me realise it's possible to get and stay clean. I'm so happy for you. x

@@jh7137 So don't get me wrong , all the congrats and good for you or whatever is nice to hear . Sometimes if I'm a bit low or having a bad day and I get a notification of such it can be helpful . But "YOU" are exactly the reason I put myself out there any chance I get . 27 years is the near 3 decades that I speak of . I'm literally holding back tears right now because I'm talking to myself not so long ago . Knowing deep within that this isn't the life for me but it's mainly fear that is the big factor from moving ahead and living the life that is intended for me on the other side . Still to this day it's fear that holds me from being multiple times better off than I already am . It took me being off of that stuff to realize just how many things and to the extent of fear I have . But one of those fears is a good one . Cause amongst all the fears I have being dope sick has got to be one of the biggest ones ! I don't know how much you read of my other comments but I'm not going to sit here and say how deep I was of talk about the over a million dollars that has been through me . But what I am going to do is give you a piece of advice that I wish I could have given myself at least a decade ago . If not 2 or almost 3 years ago . But I can't take back what's already been done . The only thing I can do is name better decisions now . That's what I urge you to do. Listen it doesnt matter what you have or what your scared of loosing if you do this ... Because at best your going to loose it anyway at minimum. Everything that is keeping you from doing this your going to loose anyway if you don't do this . All of it and more . Especially being it's not even drugs anymore it's all synthetic crap . But eventually your not just going to loose what you fear now but your going to loose all of it and your life and hurt any and all that care for you I'm the meantime . Wether or not you want to admit that it's a fact and deep inside you know if! So I don't care what you got to do to do this but get your ass Into whatever detox facility is closest to you ! Not oh I'm going to do it tomorrow, not I just want to get right 1 last time . There is no 1 last time . I mean right now! You can't save your girlfriends , you can't save nothing because you can't even save yourself in your condition right ? As soon as you can get to or accepted into whatever you do it! Your going to loose it all anyway if you don't and that's a fact! As much as I hate the war on drugs and it's laws it's actually what saved my life . If you have to commit a small offense to go to jail then do it ! Try not to hurt others in the process but you need to be somewhere that you don't have a choice but to stay away from that shit ! Just long enough to where you start to get your real mind back . Then once your out from rehab or whatever you only have to do 1 thing right . Cause your going to make mistakes . It's inevitable. But if you only just get the one thing right you'll be fine . That's no matter what under no circumstance do you pick back up! Ive lied in bed curled up in fertile position crying or wishing I knew how to cry cause the agony I was in . Not just physical, but emotional , mentally, spiritually I was fucking bankrupt . I lost hair stressing the fuck out . But it will pass bro! All of it will pass! And when it does your gonna come out the other side a grateful man and learn to appreciate what you've been through. Your also going to not just loose the desire but begin to really hate what it's done to you. Done to your family and friends and even those you victimized wether intentionally or not . All the while your going to gain all of that back I'm which you was scared of loosing in the first place ! It's not easy but it's worth it ! I lost loved ones and all kinds of shit . But I gained myself , I saved myself , and finally I'm able to lend my hand in trying to save others . Your me 5 years ago and I'm you in 5 years if you just follow my advice given ! If ever you need to trust someone it's here now . The future you!

@K. W.S Thank you for this. I hate my addiction but I'm scared. I start to get help but repeatedly self sabotage. In the last 3 years I've gone from a functioning addict to been in prison, my trial was in the paper so everybody I kept it from found out. I had to tell me children I'd been a secret addict their whole lives. Everybody says your family must have known but they really didn't. Unfortunately the methadone helped me maintain a fake front of 'normality' whilst also using heroin on top. I'm tired of this. I'm in the UK and we don't have facilities we can walk into their is a long waiting list even if you qualify at all. I feel I'm on a hamster wheel that I start to get off, I dangle my toe over but then pull back. It's the shame, guilt, fear that stops me getting off it I think. I'm really grateful for your message.

honestly try spinning

It's why it's so important to stick to the programme and get meetings. Rarely does anyone get it on the first try

Right, and that is the point. When you are ready to surrender, have faith and hand it over (because you are powerless), that is when the journey towards recovery really begins. That happens when it happens, for some it takes weeks, other months, some years other never. Furthermore, again; I once thought like he did. The steps and their wording and statements are simple and practical. Only through regular meeting attendance and working those steps do you start to understand. If you make them to overly complicated and wordy to start with you are less likely to have addicts get on board. Having step 1 as, you are "you accepted you are powerless over everything" nobody would ever stick around.

Currently struggling with an addiction and you're so right. Acknowledging is one thing, but knowing is only half the battle if even that. You need to commit and put in action. Also take it step by step. My addiction has a strong hold over me, so what I'm doing now is decreasing time spent with it. Taking it slow and steady till its gone. Will I relapse this way? Hell yeah, but if I can have a more controlled relapse then I'm much further in life than I think.

Acceptance is just the first step. After acceptance comes the action. It's all about action. There is no change without change, one day at a time. Moment by moment if you have to

@fauvecorrigan1233 moment to moment is such an underrated notion. People spent a day fixing themselves and then crumble when they can't overcome another day so they just go "what the heck" and freely indulge in their addiction to another low point and then they feel like they need to recover. Sometimes the best way to do it is accept you have a problem, check which hours of the day is the problem the worst and then start building. Countermeasures, maybe willpower by simply just going through that time but actively choosing against your addiction and in 3 months time you might even forget that you ever had an addiction (depending on how bad it affected you)

Awareness-surrender-accpetance-action

That is a seriously tough situation. I wish you the very best

Damn, good job sticking around

Should have left long ago I'm a painkiller addict and all I thout about was the pills not the ppl and family I had around me till I lost everything.

Maybe you should focus on your personal issues and set the example instead of constantly telling your boyfriend what you think is wrong with him. That tends to work much better than bitching about how someone needs to change or you’re going to leave them for someone better that deserves someone as great as you happen to think you are. Think about it.

@@option4lnamename101 not every addict is selfish and self centered. You may not even be but you believe you are because you’re constantly being told that’s what you are. It could be that opiate addiction is the hardest addiction to break and that it changes brain chemistry so badly and makes you so sick when you don’t have it that you’ll do almost anything to not have to feel that sickness. You should give suboxone a try. It saved my life and gave me a normal existence. No more searching for dope and getting desperate when I couldn’t find it or going insane if I got ripped off. Cold turkey isn’t the way to quit opiates nor is tapering down. I may be on suboxone the rest of my life but that’s fine with me because I’m not high and I get to actually live my life.

Have you tried reading the scripture? It can help you have power over your addiction. And I kid you not.... Myself and many others have been set free through it. The joy of being free from addiction.....if you are willing and ready to....I can help you on that journey with daily doses of scriptures and guaranteed to be free.

It is an all consuming illness where nothing else seems to matter or be of any importance other than this thing you have grown to depend upon. It is more powerful than any love you’ve ever felt and it feels like some form of relationship you have. I believe it links to connection, if you lack basic human connection- you will connect to absolutely anything you can find. Everybody needs some form of connection no matter what that may be, or how much harm it may cause.

Correct ,if you continue to beleive you're powerless. Hou will always be powerless its about letting go of the pass be aware and always change

Stubbornness comes very natural to a lot of people. That stubbornness can create some remarkable individuals who decide from an early age that they want to accomplish something even though the world tells them they can’t and as they’re in the right place/time and have the skills to accomplish what they wish, they do so and wow everyone. But similarly, those same stubbornness individuals who pick up a harmful addiction are (as dark as it sounds) complete goners. They know deep down that they are harming themselves every day but will rather kill themselves than ask for help. It’s the unfortunate paradox of humanity.

You can be completely free from any form of Addiction. Come to Jesus and He will set you free. I can help you through this path.

Hi You are so so right. we must examine the source of one's addiction. I was an addict to porn too but I have been full delivered now. I heard a man of God say something which I noticed and observed to be true. He said, there is an emptiness or vacuum in the heart of every man that only Jesus can fill. Most times the devil tries to feed us with his own "false satisfaction" things like pornography, masturbation, drugs and the likes,yet, even though we enjoy the temporal pleasure there is still that vacuum in our hearts. This is why we need to know God and surrender our lives to Christ. There is no better and greater satisfaction than the one Christ gives. It been about 2 years plus since I got delivered from the addiction to sexual immorality and I can boldly say since then I have never gone back to my vomit. With Christ you can say bye to boredom and loneliness. if you will like to talk more or have question or you will even like to grow in your relationship with Christ kindly drop a reply. we could even talk off you.tube.

And God's word too. Another thing you can fill yourself with that takes away addiction.... Getting addicted to it have been proven to take away any other addictions. In it lies truth about your true identity and strategies on how one's life can be better. It's been known also to give peace, renewed hope and meaning to one's life.......Am an example 😊

And I can also help you go through with it if you need any help or questions 🙏

Hi brother You sound so frustrated and depressed. I can really relate with what you are going through brother cos I was once an addict too tho not to drugs but to sexual immorality. I remember how hard I tried on several occasions to stop by my own strength yet all to no avail. I have been made Free by Christ and His ever living Word. Though my deliverance did not happen within the twinkle of an eye, it took time and process. I had to be constantly washed by the word of God. It has been two years plus now and I have never gone back to my vomit. Brother you too can be free, I have lot of brothers who were also an addict to hard drugs, some from a very young age but now they have come to know the Lord and have stayed under the washing water of the word of God and have stayed clean for many. If you truly need help or got questions please do well to send a reply or we could talk privately. I pray the good Lord preserve you and purge you of all filthiness. Amen

It's ok to come to a place where you know you can't help yourself. I was once addicted to things and couldn't help myself so I went all out to someone who could help me. I opened up to God because I had tried almost everything I knew before this time and I discovered that only God worked for me and doing the following, made me able to live life free of pain . Today I am not causing myself or my family members pains anymore. 1: I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Saviour. 2: I learnt that reading the Bible, storing the word of God inside me and striving to do the things that God wants me to and letting go of the things he wants me to let go was one of the greatest help I received. 3. I changed habits, instead of hanging out with friends that will take me clubbing or drinking, I hung out with real godly people, instead of visiting x-rated sites, reading bad contents or listening to bad music, I hung out with people who held me accountable for my actions, and encouraged me to live right because they too are working on living well not pretending. 4: I began to attend a bible believing church both onsite and off-site, where the truth of God's word was taught and we were taught that God wants us to live good lives, free of drugs, porn, alcohol etc and today I am free. If you need help to go through these processes or you need godly people that can help you be accountable, I'm here.

Get to meetings and start asking strangers for help. There are people who love you that you haven't met yet. They are waiting for you. You are loved and you matter!

Help can come to you. All the help you need is in Jesus. Are you ready to accept him as your Lord and Savior. He alone can save. I was once an addict though not to drugs and Jesus made me Free. Let me walk this path with you. We can talk more.

you mean getting a 6 pack?

Why specifically this exercise and not exercise in general?

Bruh you trippin! 🤨 Exercise can most definitely help with anxiety and depression but by no means does it "take it away".

@@theyarewhowethoughttheywere in my experience, hard exercise regimes can wipe out anxiety totally. Depression not so much, but anxiety definitlry

@@destructorzz7197 I can imagine if you had trained to the point of failure and your body was just simply far too tired to experience the anxiety but it is scientifically proven to reduce symptoms, but not cure them completely... Most individuals, including myself, take pre workout before the gym and that anxiety can be intensified to another level depending on the levels of caffeine that are in the ingredients. More power to you if excersise outright cures your symptoms specifically but we are all hard-wired differently and I'm assuming you don't take pre-workout of any kind?

physically moving stretching

That’s not the answer buddy. Its not that easy. You can’t just make your brain chemistry go back to its original state by thinking about it. You don’t seem to have a grasp on what reality causes addiction for the majority of people.

What do you mean by “Jesus freak”?

And in some cases you need to remember to love yourself as much as you love others.

Who is a Jesus freak and where did you get that from this?

He’s absolutely not a Jesus freak. He’s more of a theologian as opposed to some bible thumping evangelical weirdo. Never even heard him talk about Jesus. He speaks about God and the good that can come from the lessons the Bible contains but I’ve yet to hear Dr Peterson talk about following Jesus. I mean maybe I haven’t listened to that particular material of his so if I’m wrong point me in the direction that causes you to have such a notion about him.

Cringe...

This.

Unfortunately yes, life can be very dull after quitting substance abuse. I suppose the only way to combat that is to find things in life that make you happy or excited, and do them as much as you can. Because otherwise, relapse is likely.

@user-wu1gm8xz9u Agreed. I've been 6 months sober. But life is very hard and often dull. Then again, it was hard and dull drunk too. All seems the same tbh.

Yeah true.....like I got addicted to the scriptures and I found out I lost every other addictions. But it's the only thing you can get addicted to and you are fine😊