![]() Once I learned to start communicating my needs, my strengths, and my struggles, professionals were able to support me better, and my friends and family could begin to unravel the sources of a lot of my more harmful behaviours. There were two vital ingredients to maintaining my sobriety Open communication and my autism diagnosis. Once I had found sobriety, I had to keep it. I joined the twelve-step programs in my city, and although they weren’t appropriate for me, they did teach me a lot about my addiction. I spent a month in a psychiatric ward going through an inpatient detox. ![]() I had to get creative, and seek a lot of support to find the resources I needed to get sober. What purpose does the concept of mental “illness” serve?Īddiction takes everything from you, but requires all of your resources to beat. I had very little in terms of professional support to begin with because my behaviour meant that I did not easily engage with services. Addiction takes everything from you my relationships were in tatters, my career was gone, I was incapable of living independently, what little money I had would be rapidly burned up buying drugs and alcohol. What was it that made it so difficult to quit? This despite the fact that I had nearly died. Even after I suffered a spontaneous pneumothorax (spontaneous collapse of the lung), I swore I would stop smoking cigarettes and weed, yet once back in my normal life, found myself using all over again. Every time I decided that it was time to return to normal life, I kept finding myself rapidly returning to my old behaviours. I kept going back to the drugs and alcohol. The question that I think needs to be asked, is why didn’t I find sobriety sooner? What was it that drove me to keep using? I honestly think that might be the wrong question, not to mention awfully difficult to answer for most people in my position. Many people ask me how I found sobriety, what changed in me to trigger that growth. Finding sobriety: The seemingly insurmountable challenge
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