What a crazy stretch that is
Take a few tramadols and you think my whole world is going to burn. Don't assume I'm as weak as you
I've never had an issue with substance abuse. Beyond hormones...which have been my drugs of choice since 1994.....the different drugs that many I know enjoy to the point that they leverage relationships and careers just aren't my idea of bliss or fun.
I've undergone surgeries and have had injuries where schedule 2 drugs gave me the needed rest and took the edge off severe pain that was beyond my ability to manage.
The feeling of not being in control and not being able to focus while not caring all that much about it bothered me.
Maybe its the fog I feel in my head and not being able to get over the top of it all is the issue?
I do have a daughter who has the gene that skipped my ex-wife and I. We both have grandparents who were alcoholic. Our parents were not alcoholic or addicted to drugs.
I believe I can speak on the issue because while I personally haven't had to struggle with addiction in my own being, I've been engaged in an all out battle, at times, with my daughter's addiction.
There was a time when I came to terms with, and prepared myself for, receiving that call that she was gone or walking into her room one morning to find her lifeless body.
She has lost more friends and peers at the age of 25 that I have in my late 40's...by a long shot.
The rehabs and meetings...and the lies..they may have been what bothered me the most. The lies. I love that little girl so much. Saying "No" to her and not being able to trust and believe her was very difficult for me. I came to hate the drug and disease.
I hated what she had become...once I needed to feel something other than sadness and despair, the hate for her disease let me ride an adrenaline rush for quite some time.
I've spoken on this before. Nothing worked for her until we found an Ibogaine clinic in Rosarita, Mexico. Ibogaine, Ayahuasca, and DMT along with counseling saved her life.
She now is a "guide" for a group that has done the necessary paper work and whatever else to make the Schedule 1 Ayahuasca legal to distribute and consume. Its the Sacrament to those who partake.
She helps comfort those during the "Ceremony" and helps set up and then clean up. She met her current boyfriend at one of the Ceremonies. He's an attorney from Orange County.
For anyone who has run out of options I am happy to pass on the info.