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Originally posted by pr0
Quitter
Your addictions will just change to food, coffee, sex, strippers, hookers, pain pills or something else. Once an addictive personality, always an addictive personality.
Just start smoking weed & never look back at anything else.
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I have to both agree and disagree with this, pr0.
Yes, it's true, once an addict always an addict...theres no way around it.
I myself, am a co-dependant cross addictive alcoholic. I will be all those things until the day I die. But that doesn't mean that I live every day of my life shit-faced and high.
It has been 9 1/2 years since I touched rock, 5 years since I gave up meth, and as to alcohol, 2 years ago there was beer in this bod every day...the total amount of my alcohol intake over the last 2 years doesnt even come close to what I used to drink in one day.
It took a long time for me to be able to admit my addictions to myself, and even longer for me to be able to accept the fact that I was what I was and always will be...
I am an addict. I will always be an addict. But I am a clean and sober addict that really loves the person that she sees now, when she looks in the mirror. I couldnt say that 2 years ago.
As to the addiction just changing to something else...a replacement addiction, if you will....this is something that is totally and completely untrue, because it doesnt happen to everybody!
It varies from person to person, as to whether or not this happens. I think it depends on just how strong each individual is, and whether or not they are able to recognize the "warning signs", or if they are able to stop themselves if and when they do see them.
I've not yet had a "replacement" addiction since i quit drinking, but until then, everything i did was to replace what i had just given up...but I didnt see it like that back then. Of course, who CAN see thru a drunken drug induced haze??
My story is different than anybody elses...we each have our own, we've each lived in our own hell, and each story will have a different way of arriving at the end. But it's at the end that we all have one thing in common, that we all are the same...We are CLEAN AND SOBER, and even more importantly, we are ALIVE!
Kudos, BB! I wish you the best on your journey to sobriety! It's well worth the shitty road it takes to get there!
