~ More or less social being clean?

[T1]

I've always been an athlete, worked out all the time and never thought anything like this could happen to me. However I've always been a huge partier since high school but has mostly always been just booze. Other then booze the only other thing I've done was E and that includes never trying pot. I was always the one organizing party's and setting up road trips etc. So getting hit by an opiate addiction was blindsiding in so many ways. Once I became addicted I slowly stopped hangin' out with friends and kinda vanished. So, now that I'm clean I totally feel like I'm more social again.

So do you find yourself more or less social being clean?

[cookconfay]

More of course. I don't call my junkie associates, dope dealers, fences and the like a "social circle" to begin with and I also don't call that living. . .it was a slow form of suicide. I am grateful that I have been clean & sober since 8/23/97 and yes. . .definitely I don't mind being seen anymore!!!!! As a matter of fact when commented to at meetings. . ."good to see you" I always respond with "it's good to be seen"! Yeah for God and yeah for him getting my a*s back into the program again!!!!!

[t_a_n_y_a_]

Depends what you mean by social....did I "hang" out with more peolpe? Sure. Did I talk alot more? Definitely. But that wasn't "me", that was the drugs or the alcohol or whatever. I have fewer people to hang out with, but those that I DO associate with are actually friends. I did however seclude myself for a couple of months right when I got clean and am only now kind of....resintroducing myself into the social world, oen that doesnt involve drugs.

I think the hardest part about being social again was the fact that I couldn't relate to the people I had before. I had been to hell and back and they had jkust continued on their own path.

[StagebearNJ]

I'm kind of with t_a_n_y_a on this one. I probably appeared more fun at times, more talkative, but ultimately it wasn't me.
I'm less likely to socialize when clean, but that's more an issue of my grumpy ol' bear personality than sobriety being "less fun".

[Lizrox]

When i was using I would always isolate myself. I didn't want to be around anyone. I just wanted to wallow (sp) in self pity.

Now that I am clean; I can function. I go out with my best friend all the time and go out with my hubbys friends.

It's alot more fun being clean and being able to think clearly.

Liz

[Peter]

Originally Posted by T1

So do you find yourself more or less social being clean?

Yes definately more. Only now the irony is that while I am a great "socializer" the only thing I want to do is stay home with myself or hang out with my family.

[emmer]

I haved almost always been a loner....in fact when someone pops by i get pissed off
inside. I work lots and when i get home I just want to relax.
Not social on drugs and not social clean either

[TryingisDying]

Well Im more social in a "real" way now that I am in recovery....

[chiynita]

It didnt really change much I guess. Just in a different way with different people.

[2ala2]

I was very "sociable" when using. ALL my aquaintances were users/addicts
Today I have fewer aquaintances, I call them friends.