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[Life_and_Death]

I want to mention to my husband that I want to go to rehab. The weed and the booze is no good for me. It doesn't help. The weed just makes everything worse, I might as well just stayed on the rispredone it has the same effects.

But.... I just don't want to let it go. This is why I think it might be best. Although maybe like a weekend thing.... I'll get that straightened out later.

I'm scared he's just going to stop buying it for me completely all together and I really don't want that. Does anyone know how to maybe avoid that? Kinda like a happy medium.

Of course there's also the problem of the only rehab place I know of my stepfather is the supervise of security for and my friend works there as well so I can't go there. Idk maybe there's another place. Besides I think that's one you have to live at I'm not sure.

 

[I_love_to_bake]

Weed and booze have been my addiction for a while as well. Have you tried to lower the amount you smoke? Im about a week clean from both right now, and I started by weaning myself off with lower doses.

Also, alternative substances help a lot. I use chamomile tea for when the withdrawals make me nervous and sleepy time tea for when I can't get sleep. Yogi good mood tea for when I am feeling depressed. Even if its just placebo, it just helps me get through what I need.

I would recommend a T break of no shorter than a week. This is because the first 3 to 4 days can be rough but after you experience a couple decent sober days, you won't feel the compulsion to smoke as much.

Is you husband smoking and drinking as well? Is he dependent? If so, it will be hard to quit while he is living with you and using. I didn't have the willpower personally when I lived with a daily smoker.

My rehab is the woods... I pack enough food to camp out and just camp for about a week. Might not be feasible in your situation, but it works for me.

One last thing. Dont beat yourself up for relapsing. You can always try again. Rediscovering your sober self will feel freeing and empowering!

All the best❤

 

[Life_and_Death]

Weed and booze have been my addiction for a while as well. Have you tried to lower the amount you smoke? Im about a week clean from both right now, and I started by weaning myself off with lower doses.

Also, alternative substances help a lot. I use chamomile tea for when the withdrawals make me nervous and sleepy time tea for when I can't get sleep. Yogi good mood tea for when I am feeling depressed. Even if its just placebo, it just helps me get through what I need.

I would recommend a T break of no shorter than a week. This is because the first 3 to 4 days can be rough but after you experience a couple decent sober days, you won't feel the compulsion to smoke as much.

Is you husband smoking and drinking as well? Is he dependent? If so, it will be hard to quit while he is living with you and using. I didn't have the willpower personally when I lived with a daily smoker.

My rehab is the woods... I pack enough food to camp out and just camp for about a week. Might not be feasible in your situation, but it works for me.

One last thing. Dont beat yourself up for relapsing. You can always try again. Rediscovering your sober self will feel freeing and empowering!

All the best❤

I've tried. I'd have to ask my friend but I think I went 2 weeks at most. And I don't exactly like tea

He doesn't. He might have the occasional drink but I have to beg him to have a joint with me.

 

[grungeCat]

I'm afraid there's no happy medium in this situation. You either take drugs/drink alcohol or stay clean. When I was on rehab I was told that if you are hooked on alcohol once then you're not allowed to even have a sip of alcohol for the rest of your life or you'll lose control again.

However, I don't know if it applies to weed. Therapists avoided raising marijuana topic like a plague. Nobody was there because of weed too - everyone had a problem with alcohol except a guy who abused amphetamines and me with my opiate problem. Honestly I rarely smoke weed and I have no problem controlling it even if I'm addicted to opiates so my will power is lowered. I would surely smoke something but it's very different feeling from desire for opio. Weed is also far less harmful than alcohol.

Well, my feelings can be completely different from yours when I think about it. You have an easy access to weed because your husband gets it. There is a very weird drug policy of post-communist countries, where I live. Most drugs are highly restricted - you can get popped for a single joint. I'm socially disabled so I don't know anyone who would sell me mj. However, you can buy opiates in every drug store without prescription for a very cheap price.

edit : Sorry, it's kinda chaotic what I wrote. I don't know if you actually are addicted to alcohol but I suggest switching to only weed.

 

[Life_and_Death]

The weed just makes everything worse, I might as well just staye

@grungeCat I'm just going to point you in the direction of this. And yes I'm addicted to both. It's possible to get addicted to weed however rare

 

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I also believe a "happy medium" is tooough, at best. I dont think its possible with alcohol, from what i've seen. And weed, at least for me, is tricky. Yes you can drop it all of a sudden, suck it up a few days and start sobering up, but the problem in my case is the dependence of those drugs in my essential routines.

It's like i drop it, pass a week, feel the soberness, congratulate myself, keep going, keep congratulating, and by the end of the month i realize i've been going on non-stop on everything. Im unable to relax, or enjoy, or leave my mind empty, and that ends up affecting the way i relate to people or work.

One problem with addictions is dealing with the "untrained skill" that the drug was covering in some way. Yes u can deal with the physical consequences, and the mental drive to retake the drug, and depending on the drug any of those can even be mortal, but even so, you still need to deal with the traits that drug will leave on you, and learn to fill whatever the drug was filling with something healthy.

So, "happy medium" is utopic at least for me. I believe that one has to completely leave it, learn to live without it, and then u can make choices about introducing drugs to spice things up/down on weekends, holidays or whatever. But to spice, not to complement your daily life.

(haha wish i did this)

pd: btw if u dont like teas, maybe u can smoke passiflora, i used to make "joints" of tobacco & passiflora + sleep tea to pass the nights