Never thought it’d happen to me. It did. Been Clean a bit over a year. I got a couple crazy stories for sure. AMA

Edit: this is pretty personal, the answers kinda long, and I can’t touch on everything, but I’ll try my best. Thanks for reading.

    • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Kind of a long story, but in a nutshell…my family fell apart. We went from somewhat normal family in insane amount of debt and struggling to : My mom blew the fam up over money and lack of emotional intelligence on both my parents parts, she started dating my fkn uncle on my dad’s side which was fkn traumatic all around. My dad was living out of a damn jeep wrangler. My sister was pregnant. I had a back injury from work, and it just so happens that my bandmate was an addict and we lived in the city w the biggest open air market and drug culture on the east coast.

      Perfect storm. After a certain point it was all me and my empty excuses/justifications.

      • EhForumUserEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Understandably it is impossible to know, but if you had exposure to the drugs (e.g. trying because your friend compelled you to) without all of the other family/life baggage that made up the perfect storm you describe, do you think you would have fallen into the same addiction cycle?

        • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Hmmmm good question…or should I say thought experiment.

          I’d like to think it’s not “in my nature” as an individual, buy very “in my nature” as a human being. Human nature is a bitch.

          I’m gonna say, in a vacuum, no. I would be doing other drugs probly, but not physically addictive ones that come with crazy risks. I never liked opiates. Till that perfect time where I needed to dissappear. The rest is history.

          It’s really hard to say cause no one sets out to “get addicted” ykno