Fight for humanity

[DKG]

That's great news!

 It's good to see a win for women and girls these days!

Their hard fought vioctories are being rolled back.

[formosan]

Men have their own sports to compete in.

[caskur]

I was addicted to heroin and I've been clean for nearly 11 years.

 Okay 10 years since last May.

 That being said when I was in early recovery and I saw people with a year clean relapse hard....I really thought if they can't do it, I never will.

 So I may as well just go overdose and die because I'll never be okay again.

 Now that I have extensive clean time, I see it differently. I know that the real hard parts of recovery come in those first two years because your brain produces NONE of its own dopamine. So I had no dopamine in my brain and the soul crushing depression is hard. You feel like a ghost of your former self and as if life is futile.

 I had another determination though and reducing myself to brain chemicals helped me alot. I did everything to stimulate dopamine production. Started working out and running and eating healthy.

 I never should have gotten married but I wouldn't have my daughter if I did. So. I did TOO much but I never relapsed.

 People CAN get better BUT...I think for most, it's unlikely. Most will end up dead or in prison. Once they end up zombies on the streets...I think meaningingful recovery is unlikely. Until that person decides they want an actual life....they'll never have the strength to do it.

That is very interesting .... I  can get stoned without drugs just playing a track I love over and over and over. I can play an Eric Clapton song, Let It Grow and then I am high.