I'm saddened by some of the posts here.
Coming in from a different angle I take an old style tricyclic antidepressant for constant nerve pain.
It turns the roar of constant pain down to a usually barely noticeable niggle with the odd flare up for old times sake.
If I didn't take it I would not be able to enjoy the quality of life I do.
I certainly wouldn't be able to be nice to my wife, play music, or post here daily.
I also take meds for blood pressure, meds for asthma, meds for cholesterol meds for sleeping and meds for pain relief when required.
That's my reality.
I don't use those drugs in the same way I used to use booze and weed.
I've never spent my last $20 on meds, never gotten high, never combed the carpets for crumbs of pills I've dropped, never cried out of my responsibilities to take a pill instead.
A drug is a drug is a pithy line but it really doesn't hold up to scrunity and it really doesn't address the fundamental change in me in recovery.
Still, if anyone wants to think me not sober, that's fine. Really.
That's not what I'm sad about.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion - even when they have opinions about experiences or lives they know nothing about.
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