drug-quitting support give and take

(Know a better place for this post? PM me)
I've been experimenting with drugs off and on since I was 15. My list goes like this: alcohol, marijuana, extasy, cocaine, pcp, cold medicine, crack or crank (tweak?), mushrooms. Although I've never gotten very bad into anything, I'd really just like to stop all of it. What makes it so hard is that EVERYONE I know does SOMETHING. Lately this phase of friends I have are doing a lot of tweak, which I think is one of the worst. I'd like to just stop hanging out with all of them, and I probably will, but instead of doing that and being lonely (I've gone through a few phases of trying to stop doing drugs and start being healthy and every time I do it lasts for a few months and then I get sick of not having any friends and go back to the old ones) I'd like to find some people in my area, or online even who are maybe trying to do the same thing and looking for some support. I could sure use some and I would give the same to anyone.

Today is the day.

 

It's good to see you want to change yourself for the better! I think it takes time and effort to meet people, it's frustrating sometimes. I am definately a believer that the more you surround yourself with beauty and the more positive you become, the more it comes around to you. Beautiful people are attracted to beautiful people! Anyway, peace and namaste

 

hey girl. im in the same boat. its mainly with alcohol but im also not doing any other drugs right now....

if you wanna pm me or anything, feel free.

and good luck!

 

I was in a situation like this (but definitely not as hard with drugs though). What I did was keep hanging out with people, who waste themselves, if they still have something besides that. I mean I would just party with them - everybody drunk n stuff, me alone sober and I would just talk to people worth talking to. I don't talk to those who have nothing else in them besides drugs (alcohol, weed, whatever it be). Ok, the difference is that I get along alone pretty well, but I could suggest you to try to find out what kind of people hang around your town/city/whatever, if there are any interest groups (anarchists, Food-not-bombs folks, artists, any kind of actists, well, interesting people) and join one you find interesting. This is just for meeting new people, if that is what you need. It is much better for you and the world to step over your shyness and talk to some folks, get new friends than drugging your poor body and soul to freekin death or even worse - fucking people's lives around you!
Going sober is a very important step in self-realization and on the road to true happiness, man

 

yeah I definitely agree, but I've pretty much always been surrounded by bad things and bad choices (I don't know if I believe in wholey bad PEOPLE) and negativity. Although I've had a few glimpses of extremely beautiful and positive things and loved it all, it's still kind of intimidating at times. I am getting past that though. I hear things always get worse before they get better, and maybe that's true for this. Maybe for all things. Anyways, thanks!!!

 

Yeah. I don't have trouble talking to people. I'm just having trouble finding people that don't do drugs! It seems like everyone in this town does it. The population's only 11,000I know eventually I will find someone, -thing.

 

earthfriend I got your post in my email but then I came back to the thread and it's not here!?? it's weird and I think it might just be my computer, but I don't know. What's going on?