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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!

Thursday, April 05, 2007

Word Games

PRINCE OF THE CITY The Movie starred some other guy because John Travolta pulled out/did Saturday Night Fever instead/whatever he did ...

Coronation Street was not on, it's Thursday night: EastEnders night. Can I ask you Canadians something? I was quite shocked to discover Corrie's so popular over there. Are you totally up to date with us? I mean, has Tracey Barlow been sentenced yet for slaying Charlie Stubbs, the evil builder who made Shelley's life a misery? I'm resisting temptation to give the jury's verdict here in case you are behind and are a serious Corrie fan to boot ... suffice it to say you were right if you thought that girl was capable of getting away with murder .... or WERE you???

Abscess number two, the one on my knee I probably didn't tell you about, the one that has always been topped with a scab, has been oozing pus beautifully all day. Now it's totally gone down as has been all squeezed out. I just resemble a five year old primary school kid with my traditionally scabby knee... Abscess number one, the "traffic light" on the back of my right leg, which at its peak had a pus-mountain the size of a fried egg yolk, is well and truly healing naturally. I'm not going to complain about this (ie the fact it never came enough to a head to burst through), it just went from dark purply red down to light pink, the pus-lake is less than a third of the size of what it used to be, it doesn't even really itch any more and stopped paining me days ago. It's sinking down the way it would vanish if I were on a course of antibiotics. This means, according to the concensus of common sense I get, that I'm obviously in too good a level of general health to be eaten alive by staphyloccocus aureus, which can only be a good thing ... (And I never DID make it to the doctor's I shamefacedly admit...)

There are no repositories of profundity to milk for today's pustular outpouring of a posting, so I'll just go now ... Leaving with a query about WORD GAMES... Does anyone know a word game you can play which does not rely on SPELLING to make any sense? I know this sounds a little odd but think about it. I have always been useless at spelling but good with words. And most of the word games I've come across are actually games of spelling: ie if you translated them to Chinese they would not work. The only exception I can think of is what we used to call The Dictionary Game where a word is selected from the dictionary. All players create a bogus definition for this word. You win points when people mistakenly select your bogus definition as the true meaning. This is similar to "call my bluff" except there is no division into teams, everyone plays every round and turns are taken to select the word to be "defined". The other one I loved playing involves being given a card with a word written upon it plus about five words you are not allowed to use when describing to the other players what this word means. An eggtimer (which in my view was a little short on sand) keeps time. For example I got COSMOPOLITAN. The five no-no words were things like "international" "sophisticated" etc. Everyone got it in two seconds when I declared, "it's a magazine that tells you how to have sex swinging from a chandalier". See what I mean?...?

PS Who is Jesus who left a comment for me the other day? I could not work out whether you were named after the Son of God ... or were just Spanish...! BTW when I clicked your profile it doesn't let me in there! Please get back to me & tell where your blog is, if you do one!!

PS Does anyone know what the words mean to that themetune to The Osbournes: "Crazy, that's how it goes; millions of people live in ASBOS...??" An asbo is an AntiSocial Behaviour Order. It is an order summarily imposed by the courts in England and Wales banning an individual from engaging in nuisance behaviour -- and you could not live in one however desperate you were for somewhere to stay ...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey!! Was it you that was asking me about the government grants website? well anyway, here it is... Grants I'm headed back to Cali this weekend, gotta get warm! :)

Edyta said...

"it's a magazine that tells you how to have sex swinging from a chandalier".
Crack Up! LOL. Yup, all that info + MORE.
For example: sex in the cupboard, in the closet, on the toiletsit etc. How informational!

CheekierMeSly said...

So, do y'all see Get Fuzzy across the pond? Today's was its usual clever self.

Anonymous said...

the dictionary game, as you call it, was made into a real board game called 'Balderdash'

and its true, all you really need is a dictionary

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"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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