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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!

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Laundretta Chaos II

CHAOS IN MY HOUSE. Not only is the front door smashed in yet again (Laundretta got locked out drunk), but for the past couple of days she has been staggering up and down the hallways at night in the dark (a little like a drunken human prostitute minotaur) wailing and hollering and yelling accusations at her boyf, Matran.

It all came to a head yesterday when she smashed the back stairs window with a sink plunger... leaving the kind of plunger-shaped hole that you couldn't do if you tried a million times...

Yes chaos rules again.

Evilstein went slightly mad about that and Mat and L's television being left outside their room for two months and claimed we all have to clear up because the council are coming round today. Frankly I don't believe that but hid my robbies and made everything look a bit smart.

I actually went out and purchased some memoirs to use as an inspirational template for mine... and reading through came to the unsurprising conclusion that yes I will have to novelize the entire thing. Ukk.

This means telling your life story as if it was a novel ie with dialogue and descriptions laid out in the traditional format... which is kind of hard to do when it's your own truth... and such dialogue, though it pulls in the focus crystal sharp and close... is inherently untruthful because as we all know it is NOT the exact dialogue from the time.... ho-hum. But you gotta live to convention. Otherwise you end up in prison.

I'm going to mess about on the internet and then will have another go at memoiring later on tonight so wish me luck again... I shall aim to complete two whole pages today! Woo!

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I think I picked out two TOP tunes today!
1. Sinitta - Cross My Broken Heart... you poor Americans on the far side of the pond... you don't know what you're missing not having charts full of Europop... (And Sinitta IS American by the way!!)

2. Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood. I've no idea whatsoever WHAT Clint Eastwood has to do with this song. But that's the title. Hmmmmmmm......


And my 2 other vids:

3. Paris Hilton and Madonna munching sandwiches in the park...

4. Britney Bitch Revisited...
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Blog recommendation of the day:

The Captain's Blog. From HMS Somerset Royal Navy warship. Or frigate. Or whatever they call it. But it's a big grey metallic ship full of weapons. Designed for going out in times of conflict and kicking "arse"...
(http://www.hms-somerset-co.blogspot.com)

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

reminder to self:

http://thailandgal.blogspot.com

Calista*Was*Here said...

What kind of comments u like, actually?

I'm new here and still roam, need directions...

jim dandy said...

My Quirk Factor is 90%
You're beyond quirky... You're downright bizarre.
You've lost touch with social norms and what's appropriate. And you're loving every minute of it!
HEY...I resemble that remark! haha

Wayward Son said...

I don't see why you have to novelize your memoirs just because that's what you've found others have done. (If this is what you are saying—I could be wrong) Why not wait for the film or television people to do that after they pay you the big money for your story? Why not tell it the way you see it and the way you want to? This is, after all, how new ideas make their way into the public consciousness!

Anonymous said...

WAYWARD: No no by novelizing I mean you tell the truth, but each scene is constructed in exactly the same way and using the same techniques a novelist uses...

if you DON't do this you would tend to end up with pages and pages of I would do this we used to do that... you know slightly blurry-feeling and far more tiring to read and harder to focus upon. my one point of resentment is that i would have to recreate dialogue in a way that obviously wasn't LITERALLY the words spoken, but as good as... any biography or autobiography you read is full of this. It's a technique one is expected to use and I don't mind doing it, it's just, as I say, making up dialogue ... feels a little like I'm dramatizing it up and I don't really NEED to do that, do I?
the other thing about dialogue is it propells the narative forward and it's quite important for that reason, too

Anonymous said...

CALISTA: what do you mean?

JIM: how on earth did you get 90% - were you lying to appear more quirkky? I went thru the q'aire again to TRY and be as quirky as poss and scored 100!!

Audrey said...

Oh poo!!! even lying Im only 69% quirky, think I will definitely work on ringing more quirk into my life..........it sounds like fun.

Unfortunately Im having trouble with youtube videos on my comp at the moment so cant comment on the ones youve posted tonight.

Keep that pen flowing across that paper. I like the way you write and find it interesting and leaves me wanting more.

Going to visit The captainblog now so I can learn to kick ass too in a quirky sort of way

Gledwood said...

Leaving people wanting more is definitley something I'm good at... hardly writing anything!!

But I GOTTA get it done. Gotta finish this damn book by Christmas!

Deb said...

gled...I'm with wws - I don't think you need to adhere to any kind of structure with this...do what feels natural and just let it flow. I'm sure it'll be much more interesting that way. Like you do with your blog...that's what keeps people coming back - you have your own unique style of presenting yourself and that's obviously quite intriguing as people return for more.

Deb said...

oh and I wonder if that really is Madonna and Paris...somehow I don't think so.

I love the Gorillaz. :)

Calista*Was*Here said...

I mean,
maybe u r annoyed by certain type of comment.

Because of everything I learn about u, my instinct tells me to talk u out of bad things, then to "proselytize" about health, clear mind, spirit, faith...

Maybe u hate it. That's why I ask.

Anonymous said...

Debs: 1st things 1st: Paris Hilton... I thought that was a pretty close impersonation of the voice... Madonna's voice isn't as gratey as that in real life... I wonder what the piece was shot for? BC they obviously had fairly professional sound equipment etc... I thought it was for one of those American late night comedy shows

o my poor book... do you think i could write the whole thing bloglike... it has to go on for 200 pages... i'm scared of losing the plot (literally)
actually i'm thinking of going into town to get a book on memoirs writing (or biography writing) just to give top tips.
but a lotta those kind of books i find hopelessly patronizing... they're by people who never really made it in their field even though their work ticks every box and the worst have a real "do it my way" attitude that i find so repellant

the gorillaz are something though aren't they i think they are a superstars band made up of people from all different pop groups or something like that the only one i know is the vocalist damon albarn from blur

Calista: oh i see what you mean let me ponder the point tho

Anonymous said...

NOTE TO SELF

WWW.LIFEBIO.COM

"WRITING AUTOBIOGRAPHY"

Puss-in-Boots said...

My quirk factor is 82%...beyond quirky...downright bizarre. Charming.

Speaking of bizarre, where do you get these peculiar questionnaires from? Notice that we can't resist them, though.

Gledwood said...

Click on the bottom... you should get a list of alternatives like "what kind of rock bitch are you?" etc... try and click on these and well I can't get 'em... so google "blogthings" + whatever q'aire subject you're after

Evil Spock said...

64%

You're so quirky, it's hard for you to tell the difference between quirky and normal.
No doubt about it, there's little about you that's "normal" or "average."

Evil Spock is an excellent cook!

You're a top cook, but you weren't born that way. It's taken a lot of practice, a lot of experimenting, and a lot of learning.
It's likely that you have what it takes to be a top chef, should you have the desire...

Jason said...

i don't know why it is called clint eastwood either it is attention grabbing and memorable maybe that is why.. the likelyhood we will ever know is about as probably as a blur reunion... oh wait... that's happening..

BEAST said...

The Beast is an excellent cook ,I am also 65% quirky. Iam off to make Fray Bentos pie kebabs to fullfill both of the above.
You know it makes sense

Anonymous said...

Beast: Fray Bentos... isn't that a town on the Uraguay/Paraguay-border..? O I always say that

Jason: Or a spice girls reunion. Ugh.

Evil: I wonder if they do a "what Star Trek character are you named after?" quiz... & what you would be..?

Tea said...

Love your quirk factor. Mine was You're a pretty quirky person, but you're just normal enough to hide it.
Congratulations - you've fooled other people into thinking you're just like them!
LOL
Love the Madonna movie....now if only I could watch it on this stupid slow connection :(

tea
xo
p.s.

The wasp killer was my husband

Gledwood said...

my connections are really bad too. because i think it is broadband of the lowest type ... divided by 30 as am in cybercaff ... in otherwords probably 20% WORSE than dial-up!!

I WANT OFF METHADONE AS QUICK AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE!

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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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