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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, November 26, 2008

Itchy Come Home!

ITCHY IS STILL ON THE RUN! Of course I have seen split second flashes of her dashing across the carpet and I did get near to throwing a teeshirt on her last night. But she is far too quick to scoop with bare hands. Other hamsters, including Russian hamsters and Chinese you can just pick up when they come too close but these robos are like wild woodmice from the garden. Not a hope in hell of catching them without serious recourse to purpose-built robo-dead-ends, traps and the extensive use of sheeting to chuck over the little swine.

I have yet to make any serious efforts to get her back because I know the room has been mouse-proofed with polyfilla so she shouldn't be able to get anywhere. My problem is suitcases (half-unpacked) piled beside the door, legions of carrier bags under the sink (but gaps by the pipes filled in) and so on. I have put out fall-in traps full of used robo-bedding and food but these have failed to attract her enough...

Hopefully by this time tomorrow she shall be in close custardy... But: we shall
see!

10 comments:

Reeny's Ramblin' said...

Animals big and small are primarily driven by food. She knows where she can get a steady intake, I am confident that she will appear soon. After she has finished exploring the new frontier she will want to come back to what she knows. She is like me when I was 15!

Hope she comes back soon!

sally in norfolk said...

hoping she is saftly home by now :-)

Baino said...

At least you know she's around. We used to have a 'humane' mouse trap. The mouse would go in for the bait but then couldn't get out again. We'd release them in the paddock but then a crow would pick them up and not in a nice way. Erm perhaps it's time to unpack? You never know what you might find in the corners of that suit case!

Z said...

I'm now tormented with worry about what best, Dollar or Euro. Thank you very much Maria.

Hope you catch Itchy tonight.

Z said...

Which can be addressed to you or Maria, but with a different meaning, depending.

Deb said...

Good luck Gleds. How will you ever catch her? It sounds like this has happened before...what did you do then?

Can you set something up that has food in it for her?

Oh no!

Bimbimbie said...

At least you know she's exercising all that dashing around - she's going to get hungry any moment, better have something tempting ready for when she crashes*!*

Gledwood said...

REENY ... and that is how I caught her!!!

SALLY... yes she is... after 48 hours awol

BAINO the humane traps they sell round by me are useless. we had far better ones in Wales that really did capture wild mice. yes I thought of unpacking but it was v daunting. Caught Itchy before that anyhow..(!)

ANON ... hi spammer!

Gledwood said...

Z: o don't remind me I'm not going to sleep now..!!

DEBS: threw items of clothes on her, quickly gathered her up in the clothes

BIMBIMBIE: exercise? she was really skinny and underweight when I finally grabbed her

Anonymous said...

any more posts coming ?

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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