help with addictive personality & drugs

[Krissy28]

How does someone with a highly addictive personality live without drugs? I like the thought of being high and doing drugs more than actually being or doing. I feel like I always have to be under the influence of something to get through the day. Even during brief times I have stopped using I would have to at least being drinking energy drinks all day to get some sort of little buzz. What's up with that? What can I do to change my mind being so set on using. My body doesn't want to use, just my mind.

[gizzy32]

Coke is my DOC also and with the other drugs your using, they are causing huge dopamine bumps. After quitting coke it takes time before things you used to do are fun again, i have noticed that with myself, I finally can enjoy the things i used to again. Get to a meeting, talk to a counsellor and read some posts about recovery. There was a time I truly believed i could not function or be happy without drugs, but that is all the lie of addiction. Put some effort into your recovery and figure out the reason you feel the need to be high all the time, i was exactly where you were and know the mind games and those thoughts. Are you using the xanax to come down from these drugs?

[Krissy28]

your right total mental addiction, way way worse. Problem is I haven't quite found that one thing in my life that I'm passionate about, I feel a little lost right now....primary DOC = coke, meth, adderall, xanax.

[christos24]

i think that going to NA meetings, group meetings, and intensive counseling and therapy will really help, i have an extremely addictive personality  feeling i always needed to  be buzzed or high 24/7, life was soo dull without it, but once you stay clean and sober long enough you realize how much you are gaining, how great it actually DOES feel to be normal again and truly have emotion and feel, its really amazing, but not stayin g sober long enough to realize it most of the time, once you get their it will truly be amazing...i had a hard time accepting the same thing youa re going through, but in time your mind will think clearly without being a thick fog clouding your judgment and emotions, youll get to live life and really enjoy, i know it sounds impossible or it may not be enough to get you to stay clean and sober..its honestly all on you to stick with recovery..it truly is amazing once you pass through the muck , but deep down you have to want it and be truly sober and the absolute desire to stay that way! counseling, meetings, and therapy really got me to think like that and to realize what i am missing out on..what waw your primary DOC?-Christos

[gizzy32]

Geeez you sound like me, i have a very addictive personality, not just with drugs. It can be a good thing cause when it comes to something good in life i do it to the fullest and the best i can, but when it comes to drugs and other things that get me in trouble i do them to the max too. You have to find something that is positive in life, something that is healthy to focus your energy on.

What you are having is that mental addiction and to me so so much harder than the physical, the physical goes away, the mental can haunt us for a long time unless we make those certain changes. What is it in life you like to do besides drugs?