The latest book I am reading about how meth is destroying the lives of gay men is a bit sobering for me and also brings back many unpleasant memories. The examples used in the book resonate with me and relates on so many levels to the days that I used meth. I have been sober for over seven years now and yet the addictiveness of the drug still frightens me. I like the book, it reminds me of why I had get away from meth. Although I would like to hear a story chronicling a person recovery and all the hardships a person must undergo to rebuild their lives. As for myself, it seems, it took forever and at times I doubted whether I would ever be happy and fulfilled. All I remember hearing are the horror stories and never any successses. It seems that everything would forever be bleak. In my opinion the negatives are overstressed in order to prevent the possibility of any possible users from taking that often fatal step. I would do the same, but the doom and gloom, is not what a committed recovering users wants to hear.
I haven't completed this book, when I do, I comment again.
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You're so right! People need to know what the options are and what a healthy and sober life can look like for them.
Expanding this out a little bit - I think, in general, we, as a culture, are super invested in ecstasy of misery and despair. What happens when we commit to bliss and wholeness?
Congratulations, my dear, on being clean for 7 years! That's incredible!!!!
I agree with you about "ecstasy of misery and despair". I think it might stem from judeo-christian thought. Sorta of a woe is me and my hurts and trials are greater. I admit, at times, I am guilty of wallowing in self-misery, but everyonce in awhile, I try to reflect on my current state, and I then give myself a mental kick in the ass.
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