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DIARY OF A SLOWLY RECOVERING HEROIN ADDICT

I used to take heroin at every opportunity, for over 10 years, now I just take methadone which supposedly "stabilizes" me though I feel more destabilized than ever before despite having been relatively well behaved since late November/early December 2010... and VERY ANGRY about this when I let it get to me so I try not to.

I was told by a mental health nurse that my heroin addiction was "self medication" for a mood disorder that has recently become severe enough to cause psychotic episodes. As well as methadone I take antipsychotics daily. Despite my problems I consider myself a very sane person. My priority is to attain stability. I go to Narcotics Anonymous because I "want what they have" ~ Serenity.

My old blog used to say "candid confessions of a heroin and crack cocaine addict" how come that one comes up when I google "heroin blog" and not this one. THIS IS MY BLOG. I don't flatter myself that every reader knows everything about me and follows closely every single word every day which is why I repeat myself. Most of that is for your benefit not mine.

This is my own private diary, my journal. It is aimed at impressing no-one. It is kept for my own benefit to show where I have been and hopefully to put off somebody somewhere from ever getting into the awful mess I did and still cannot crawl out of. Despite no drugs. I still drink, I'm currently working on reducing my alcohol intake to zero.

If you have something to say you are welcome to comment. Frankness I can handle. Timewasters should try their own suggestions on themselves before wasting time thinking of ME.

PS After years of waxing and waning "mental" symptoms that made me think I had depression and possibly mild bipolar I now have found out I'm schizoaffective. My mood has been constantly "cycling" since December 2010. Mostly towards mania (an excited non-druggy "high"). For me, schizoaffective means bipolar with (sometimes severe)
mania and flashes of depression (occasionally severe) with bits of schizophrenia chucked on top. You could see it as bipolar manic-depression with sparkly knobs on ... I'm on antipsychotic pills but currently no mood stabilizer. I quite enjoy being a bit manic it gives the feelings of confidence and excitement people say they use cocaine for. But this is natural and it's free, so I don't see my "illness" as a downer. It does, however, make life exceedingly hard to engage with...

PPS The "elevated mood" is long gone. Now I'm depressed. Forget any ideas of "happiness" I have given up heroin and want OFF methadone as quick as humanly possible. I'm fed up of being a drug addict. Sick to death of it. I wanna be CLEAN!!!

Attack of the Furry Entertainers!

Attack of the Furry Entertainers!

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Post-Sunday Lunch

HAD A SLIGHTLY BIZARRE Sunday lunch round at Mother H's house. Sat there watching old Lost on DVD. Never been able to follow that series on television. That and Desperate Housewives came on in same season here, at least in Desperate Housewives there is SOME semblance of a plot, not just random happenings, rivetting in the moment yet meaningless out of it. Also, Lord of the Rings pixie guy on plane: heroin- on gums? P-lease! Also no way would you ever let someone else get hold of your stash. No way. Thankfully did not see THAT part repeated. That would have wound me up way too much.

Had been there about half an hour, dinner was an hour away when Mother Hubbard says, "Come on, Dodge is taking you down the pub, come on, don't you want to go?" etc etc. In other words. "Get outta my yard so's I can have that HIT I got hidden in my top drawer in PEACE." I know the lady well enough, let me assure you.

So I went down the pub, drank 2 pints of pub-water (ie those urine-weak drinks they serve up in pubs). Had fairly pleasant talk. I did notice the toilets had anti-snort pebbledash atop the lavvy roll dispensers. I mean!... It's not even a snorty kinda pub. More a Mogadon (sleeping pill) pub if you asked me. All dark wood and somnolent ambience. Well anyhow. Could not help but overhear Italian-American gentleman swearing at English grandmother not to read his mind for him...? Other people's conversations... Just bizarre because that's not the kind of place you get Columbo extras, that's all...

Had a lovely dinner, could not finish all due to ENORMOUS quantity of fluid imbibed. I drink strong cider in half-litre cans. Not weak beer nearly a litre in half an hour... on top of previous cyder imbibing... I don't know. Or is my body packing up in my old age?

At some point after dinner there was a ckerfuffle in the hall. I had to come out and look. Drugs runner had shown up asking for fresh needles (for self). Hmmm. Then Charles the boxer ran out with cash. I left him and Mother H to use in peace as had three sticky brown filters awaiting me at home...

I didn't really want to get into this my foot, my ankle stuff here. I only would mention it as a sign of desperation,... (what else WOULD it be?)...

Now all's dry, bar 50mg methadone till tomorrow... as Gloria Gaynor most famously sang: until then I WILL SURVIVE.

How do I know that?

BECAUSE I'LL HAVE TO!!!

See yers tomorrow, folks.........

4 comments:

RUTH said...

An eventful day GW. Must admit I loke Lost (waiting for new series as I only have freeview) also like Desperate Housewives. Hooked at the moment on Prison Break and Threshold.
See you soon.
Rx

RUTH said...

Sorry the word was meant to be LOVE not LOKE.....loke beinging the Martian word for karma which in no way relates to what I was saying.

Anonymous said...

An eventful day! I love your writing style, you really have a gift. So she wanted to get rid of you for a while? Is she embarassed to use in front of you? Well at least you were fed well. I too ate well today ...

Anonymous said...

No, no... didn't want to admit they'd scored, didn't want me asking for a bit... Gets like that sometimes....

I WANT OFF METHADONE AS QUICK AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE!

METHADONE ~ A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH







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Christiane F

"Wir, Kinder vom Bahnhoff Zoo" by "Christiane F", memoir of a teenage heroin addict and prostitute, was a massive bestseller in Europe and is now a set text in German schools. Bahnhoff Zoo was, until recently, Berlin's central railway station. A kind of equivalent (in more ways than one) to London's King's Cross... Of course my local library doesn't have it. So I'm going to have to order it through a bookshop and plough through the text in German. I asked my druggieworker Maple Syrup, who is Italiana how she learned English and she said reading books is the best way. CHRISTIANE F: TRAILER You can watch the entire 120-min movie in 12 parts at my Random blog. Every section EXCEPT part one is subtitled in English (sorry: but if you skip past you still get the gist) ~ to watch it all click HERE.

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Drugs Videos

Most of these come from my Random blog, which is an electronic scrapbook of stuff I thought I might like to view at some time or other. For those who want to view stuff on drugs I've collected the very best links here. Unless otherwise stated these are full-length features, usually an hour or more.

If you have a slow connexion and are unused to viewing multiscreen films on Youtube here's what to do: click the first one and play on mute, stopping and starting as it does. Then, when it's done, click on Repeat Play and you get the full entertainment without interruption. While you watch screen one, do the same to screens 2, 3 and so on. So as each bit finishes, the next part's ready and waiting.

Mexican Black Tar Heroin: "Dark End"

Khun Sa, whose name meant Prince Prosperous, had been, before his death in the mid 2000s, the world's biggest dealer in China White Heroin: "Lord of the Golden Triangle"

In-depth portrait of the Afghan heroin trade at its very height. Includes heroin-lab bust. "Afghanistan's Fateful Harvest"

Classic miniseries whose title became a catchphrase for the misery of life in East Asian prison. Nicole Kidman plays a privileged middle-class girl set up to mule heroin through Thai customs with the inevitable consequences. This is so long it had to be posted in two parts. "Bangkok Hilton 1" (first 2 hours or so); "Bangkok Hilton 2" (last couple of hours).

Short film: from tapwater-clear H4 in the USA to murky black Afghan brown in Norway: "Heroin Addicts Speak"

Before his untimely death this guy kept a video diary. Here's the hour-long highlights as broadcast on BBC TV: "Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict". Thanks to Noah for the original link.

Some of the most entertaining scenes from Britain's top soap (as much for the poor research as anything else). Not even Phil Mitchell would go from nought to multi-hundred pound binges this fast: "Phil Mitchell on Crack" (just over 5 minutes).

Scientist lady shows us how to cook up gear: "How Much Citric?" Lucky cow: her brown is 70% purity! Oddly we never see her actually do her hit... maybe she got camera shy...

And lastly:

German documentary following a life from teenage addiction to untimely death before the age of 30. The decline in this girl's appearance is truly shocking. "Süchtig: Protokoll einer Hilflosigkeit". Sorry no subtitles; this is here for anyone learning German who's after practice material a little more gripping than Lindenstraße!































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