Dual Diagnosis Support Group

I am not attending meetings but am basically treating my BP medically rather than herbally, and resisting the urges to smoke. Resisting the urge hadn't been too difficult until yesterday.

Avoid people you used with is a reasonable mantra for some of us, and I had; even good friends that I care deeply about, because I felt I couldn't resist yet. I'd been offered pot a few times since my sobriety began, but resisted (it was over the phone so easier than face to face).

Well, I needed to get rid of some paraphernalia and I needed help with my car, so I called my old dealer. He was being good and not trying to push me to smoke, but my hubby was being a fiend and wanting to (he's been sober with me).

Well, we ended up seeing/being offered pot and it looked scrumptious...but I persevered, and also dragged hubby away and chastised him a little (he was grateful). I also got rid of nearly all my paraphernalia. Yeah, nearly all, but not quite all yet.

But I resisted, and I am proud. It feels like a breakthrough.

Not everybody needs a 12-step group and a success story like yours tends to confirm that.

A hard part is giving up some friends and making new ones.

I think kicking marijuana was easier than alcohol for me. Alcohol messed me up more physically.

I'm thankful I only smoked pot and took LSD. The other heavier drugs are a different story, one I'm glad I didn't learn.

I think the people who do those drugs are what Bob Dylan sings about in, "I see a lot of people walking around with tombstones in their eyes..."

More power to you and a neat share!

Post edited by: scooby, at: 04/09/2009 10:42

I am also glad I never read the story of the harder drugs, and I knew some of those people with tombstones in their eyes (who ended up beneath tombstones).

It was actually the film they showed in health class about cocaine that worked to scare me from ever trying it, even as my friends were all getting hooked.