Five years later
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Congrats, Memphis Blues. Five years is a seriously great accomplishment.
Your story is one that I hope is widely read here on SR. Many come here with heavy burdens, but you've shown us that we can do what we set out to accomplish.
Your story is one that I hope is widely read here on SR. Many come here with heavy burdens, but you've shown us that we can do what we set out to accomplish.
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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Thanks for all the support, SR friends.
I was hesitant to post this in Newcomers because I was one of those hapless sods that things got much worse when I first got sober. The first year was the hardest thing I have ever been through.
It wasn't until the third year that I could some some drastic improvement in my life.
This sobriety gig is hard, especially after four decades of drinking and drugging.
In 2005 through 2007, my shrink's Klonopin prescription for me to survive being me was 30 milligrams a day. My long-time shrink slowly reduced it to 20 milligrams a day, a dose every subsequent doctor who has seen my records is shocked and baffled by.
The funny thing is while taking five, two-milligram hits of Klonopin three times a day, my career had hit a high point! Of course, every other part of my life had hit a desolate bottom. Swallowing the pills with craft beer and smoking pot morning, noon and night created the only emotion I could handle -- complete apathy.
Five years out, I still suffer the consequences every day.
I'm always hesitant to share my story with newcomers. I'm afraid that instead of it being a cautionary tale, it will resonate instead as a story of the perils of sobriety!
I was hesitant to post this in Newcomers because I was one of those hapless sods that things got much worse when I first got sober. The first year was the hardest thing I have ever been through.
It wasn't until the third year that I could some some drastic improvement in my life.
This sobriety gig is hard, especially after four decades of drinking and drugging.
In 2005 through 2007, my shrink's Klonopin prescription for me to survive being me was 30 milligrams a day. My long-time shrink slowly reduced it to 20 milligrams a day, a dose every subsequent doctor who has seen my records is shocked and baffled by.
The funny thing is while taking five, two-milligram hits of Klonopin three times a day, my career had hit a high point! Of course, every other part of my life had hit a desolate bottom. Swallowing the pills with craft beer and smoking pot morning, noon and night created the only emotion I could handle -- complete apathy.
Five years out, I still suffer the consequences every day.
I'm always hesitant to share my story with newcomers. I'm afraid that instead of it being a cautionary tale, it will resonate instead as a story of the perils of sobriety!
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