The Truth Behind Addiction
I'm only posting this to put my story out there into the community. I don't need any shame/hate comments that I haven't already heard in this lifetime about this topic. It's definitely very controversial depending on who you bring it up to. But getting to the point...I want to talk about addiction & how real it is.
My story starts in 2020. My partner and I had been together for a significant amount of time at this point, and things were getting serious between us. In March of that year my mom that I was staying with at the time pretty much put it in my head that it was time for me to go, and that I needed to find my own place again. So, she gave me two months to do so with almost no notice.
So my partner and I started looking for places to rent, and we found one right in their hometown. We moved in in the end of April, and little did I know this was the beginning of a nightmare. In May I found out one night that they had relapsed on heroin after being clean for several years.
So the next two years following this had a lot of ups, and downs. They were involved in two car accidents, luckily the first one wasn't fatal. However, the second one definitely left its mark. They received a compound fracture in their ankle, and pretty much their whole ankle had to get reconstructed. This was last summer.
Fast forward to the end of last year, they checked themselves into a detox rehab, and things were great for a while when they got home. They were clean for almost 90 days, and then the inevitable happened. We got word that one of their close friends had passed due to an overdose, and just like that the cycle repeated again. We are now a couple weeks into this phase, and currently going through the withdrawal phase all over again.
So before you judge me, understand that these are people still. They have souls, and whether you think that or not is not my place to judge. However, if you really stick hard to it, you can be healthy and clean. You have to let go, and you have to free your mind. Eventually after time and time of trial and error, you'll make it there.
My story starts in 2020. My partner and I had been together for a significant amount of time at this point, and things were getting serious between us. In March of that year my mom that I was staying with at the time pretty much put it in my head that it was time for me to go, and that I needed to find my own place again. So, she gave me two months to do so with almost no notice.
So my partner and I started looking for places to rent, and we found one right in their hometown. We moved in in the end of April, and little did I know this was the beginning of a nightmare. In May I found out one night that they had relapsed on heroin after being clean for several years.
So the next two years following this had a lot of ups, and downs. They were involved in two car accidents, luckily the first one wasn't fatal. However, the second one definitely left its mark. They received a compound fracture in their ankle, and pretty much their whole ankle had to get reconstructed. This was last summer.
Fast forward to the end of last year, they checked themselves into a detox rehab, and things were great for a while when they got home. They were clean for almost 90 days, and then the inevitable happened. We got word that one of their close friends had passed due to an overdose, and just like that the cycle repeated again. We are now a couple weeks into this phase, and currently going through the withdrawal phase all over again.
So before you judge me, understand that these are people still. They have souls, and whether you think that or not is not my place to judge. However, if you really stick hard to it, you can be healthy and clean. You have to let go, and you have to free your mind. Eventually after time and time of trial and error, you'll make it there.
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