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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, December 11, 2008

Indignantly Clean Furries

THE ROBOROVSKIS ARE MOST UPSET because I threw their old bed in the bin, the one they had painstakingly made themselves by nibbling up their luxury flooring (an old issue of The Sun newspaper). They had weed and pood all over it and it stank to the rafters...

I am wondering whether she has the so-called "fat gene" because Spherical's gone tubbier than ever, leaving Bashful and Itchy looking ever so tiny indeed beside her.

I accidentally picked up Bashful last night thinking she was the hand-trained Itchy. Trained she most certainly was not, for with one almighty spring she bunnyhopped into the dark, leaping about 100 feet in hamster measurements... landing on the floor where I caught her in a Trotter Tube (old toilet roll holder).

Yesterday I returned to my old address. It was eerily calm and the haunting odour of dog blankets had evapourated. Of course I had left an entire box full of bits and bobs: spices, garlic paste &c, &c, &c...

Then I spent ages spraying, sheening, wiping, clearing, bleaching, blanking, brushing, elbowgreasing the place into submission. And I have to say after all taht it does look passably normal.

The house was empty except for the last man downstairs who was under the same odd notice as me to "pick up keys to a new address" ~ only he refused to be hurried into the move. It seems they really are redeveloping my old house... even the cockroaches have moved out. (Came with me.)

Righty-ho: I'd better go. My fridge looks wonderful, covered with doodles of the most fantastical kind. After I realized that ikea waterbased marker would turn my fridge into a whiteboard. The strangestmost things have been scrawled up on it...

Righty-ho then! Bye for now!!

MUSIC:
TARA PALMER-TOMKINSON: THESE BOOTS (WERE MADE FOR WALKING)
Tara PT isn't really equivalent to Paris Hilton. But she is a socialite "it-girl"
who got all over the media thanks to clever PR. She's the only socialite I've seen on telly who I actually liked. Also she had an 8g a day habit on cocaine. Until she went to rehab, her nose collapsed and finally she redeemed herself rather than die... Here she is performing on a charity version of one of those shows where poor would-be pop star kids are chewed up by the system and mercilessly spat out...

6 comments:

Reeny's Ramblin' said...

Man I wish you had a camera so I could see your little furry friends. I am a huge sucker for anything cute!

Baino said...

Show us yer fridge then? No camera? No phone camera? GAH! Her nose collapsed!

Akelamalu said...

You have cockroaches in your new place?

Puss-in-Boots said...

I'd really, really like to see your fridge...

So the cockroaches moved with you? What a bunch of freeloaders...I'd do something about that...some pyrethrim should do it nicely.

Gledwood said...

EILEEN/AUNT R: my Mum met Itchy at the weekend and couldn't believe how tiny she was!

BAINO: o yeah! she said she was surprised it never happened sooner...

AKELAMALU: they're transient and impossible not to bring with short of dumping everything I ever owned...

not that many though I'm doing a 1st rate job of killing 'em off!!

PUSSINBOOTS: o the fridge is amazing... shorthand lessons and everything go on there...

cockroaches are a plague. I'm surprised God never "smote" the Egyptians with 'em when he got Moses and the Israelites to move house that time

Anonymous said...

omg. itchy is so incredibly cute. wow. great pics. nice to find your site. dismayed by the lack of online chinese hamster resources, i started my own Chinese Hamster Network. :)

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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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