Thursday, January 27, 2011

Away Day Return

MESSED UP DR APPOINTMENT: something went wrong re the dr's appointment between me, my family, my worker, the dr, and the time but I've got another for later today so no harm done. I had to pick up a methadone script for next week anyhow. And I saw some nutters I know. And some junkies I know. Nutter-junkies are the best. Only type I truly understand.

Where me and normal junkies go off at tangents is in lifestyle as there was no way I was barging into shops every single day, multiple shops per day, stocking up, hiding it all in alleys and bins and hoping no other bastard shoplifter or tramp runs off with it all, then when all that's done having to sell the crap, probably feeling tired and your lovely customers being able to read how desperate you are (not that I've ever "sold stolen goods" but say, hypothetically, that I did it as a favour for someone else; then that someone would have been really surprised at how much cash I got, as I came in daisy-fresh and got money for their toothpaste and shampoo (when I didn't know it shocked me just how humdrum these shoplifted items are! I thought addicts nicked nice stuff. Not coffee, headache pills and razors! Another thing that shocked me was realizing that stuff on sale in small shops was often shoplifted from bigger shops, sold on at less than wholesale. The kind of shop that would go nuts if you got caught nicking from THEM, the hypocrites!) anyway shoplift thing over... what was I on about. O yeah

here's a point (at last)

how can I possibly know how much another person suffers? How good or bad they feel? That's (part of) what stopped me thinking I was clinically depressed when I was. Not having a point of comparison, even among people I hung out with and/or knew very well. As everyone's personal hell is their own, y'know...

Well I SLEPT 8 HOURS which was lovely. From about 6:30 to 2AM. OK probably 7 and a bit all told, and that... does it make up for last night's hardly any sleep? I dunno. I got up at 2am last night after taking the zopiclone late so I can't have got much more than an hour and a half sleep. I write down my sleep for this diary thing I WAS doing properly. Or going to to. You ALL won't remember; someone will.

O I hate going to doctors to describe how I am not how some physical ailment is affecting me. That's a headfucker if you think about it. Doesn't psychiatry mean "care for the soul". Does my soul need caring for? Shouldn't I myself do the caring? What can a headshrinker actually do for me? Apart from write down their medicalized version of how and who I am and think about prescribing drugs of their own. While telling me not to take ones obtained for FAR TOO MUCH MONEY from bastards on mountain bikes.

My phone is full of desperate text messages telling how THEIR gear is the best how one "runs" amazingly even though I'd never in a zillion years SMOKE THE CRAP. Unless it's H4 [for injection] I'm not in the remotest bit interested. H4 is pure white heroin hydrochloride. China White is still heroin. Heroin is shit. I wouldn't actually take heroin. But enjoy the oblique "your wares are shit" dig. Plus being way more knowledgeable than the idiot selling it. Surely if you're retailing you wanna know your product? But they don't. Hence the absolute SKANK sold during the worst part of this ongoing drought....

Khhh. My worker listened very closely when I described having once given up caffeine and cigarettes. Caffeine for more than a year. Cigs for at least 6 possibly as long as 9 months. And the mental persuasion entailed in dumping nicotine. My point was I was so intensely addicted to heroin none of that ever worked on me. Heroin was as intertwined round my soul as anything ever has been. Total and utter addiction. Never again!

And yes I do need to remember this. I'm the sort of bastard who doesn't recognize the same landscape in summer and winter. Message to self:~ Seasons change. No heroin in any season. Thank you.

I was so knackered today. I actually came down to the ground in the morning. Like coming home after a wild an whacky holiday (Vacation you Americans! Not Xmas hols)... yeah an adventurous holiday. Imagine sunning yourself on a beach on Ko Phi Phi, which is said to be sublime, somehow the walls of your own living room impinge into this scene and a sun-lounger turns into your own chair. Wow! Then I had a bit of coffee to get me through both these appointments and I was flying yummily again. On less coffee than most people take to get to Work!!! How amazing is that. Free illegal drugs in my coffee. Wow. Anyway I was so tired I was zombified on the outside, bizzy-buzzing on the inside. Which meant whenever anybody asked me a question I suddenly sprang to life and wouldn't stop rabbitting. Then stared into space again: wearied close to exhaustion. That's why I slept so very long, and it did feel like 18 hours, not just under 8... like when you wring out a sponge and wring and wring more and more water so I got all the sleep out of me I could. A nice good long lie in. Getting up early AM. Yeah I know it's stupid. It's also fantastic not to be addicted to sleep any more. Not the way I was. Not struggling to function on 10, 12, 14, 16 and even more hours. Get my attitude to sleep now? It hits me like a disease and I can't function through exhaustion, depression and sheer ukkhhh-ness. THIS is why I have a rave, an ongoing party when suddenly I'm OK, don't need DAYS of sleep don't need don't want get rid of my old shitty life... ukk. Live on fresh air! That's the ideal. Like a sky blue flower aginst a blue sky. Blue into infinite sunny blue and cool fresh air. I'd love to live in Switzerland, wouldn't you? OK I'm gonna leave it there else this will never get finished.

RESTFUL CLASSICAL MUSIC. OK the restful is sarcasm. Sometimes I am sarcastic you know. E.g. when I asked would a caramel cadbury's creme egg set me off hyper. I'm not the kind to get high off a red smartie you know. And as for caffeine... all it used to do was give insomnia and anxiety. Never got high off that cept when I was on Prozac or naturally high anyway (not drug high).

MOZART: REQUIEM TRANCED UP



MOZART: LACRIMOSA (IE SAME PIEC) TECHNOD DIFFERENTLY
oh man: well you might like it, I'm saying nothing about this one



EVANESCE: (MOZART'S) LACRIMOSA
OK we're starting to go down a blind alley with this one but here:
05:04 finally got this to play properly: what an oppressive dirge! doesn't suit my mood at all. I far prefer that On With the Story Higher than the Eiffel track (look for a tiny little box, shrunken youtube screen last Sunday) for clish-clashing waves of music. Does anybody like this?:~~~~~



Illustrated: I was trying to find bindweed to illustrate heroin and me and that's the flower ~ WHAT AN AMAZING COLOUR BLUE! The bottom shows what bindweed actually does, view from a beach, Ko Phi Phi (Thailand) which is pronounced "pea pea"

5 comments:

  1. Really hope something works for you man. You seem to have an excess of energy at the moment and not getting the sleep you need. I know it's not the same but I have gone through bouts of insomnia and found exercise a great help. Go for a 4 hour walk for example. Cut back the coffee and drink hot chocolate instead.

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  2. I've got to go to an appointment in the morning. I knew I wouldn't sleep through so I'm fine with getting up at 2am I like being at the methadonery the minute it opens...

    ... I used to get insomnia during my teens, then in my late teens it got more insistent. It meant I didn't sleep all night.

    What annoys me about drs is when I say I don't sleep I really don't.

    Even drug detox. Everyone said they weren't sleeping and I watched them do it. What did my head in worst was the night staff obviously needed to sleep on shift so there's me clucking feeling shit trying to wake nobody up with nobody to talk to.

    And I left on Day 3. The first place was City Roads in London which is an emegency clinic for "crisis" the punters are certainly interesting, if you want a lot of prison, crime and free thriller-style entertainment conversation which was well out of my league but really intriguing to listen to. One of their rules was "no prison talk" I told a counsellor "well the prison talk gives a sense of perspective" never having been inside I didn't have the "well it could be worse"s it was fucking shit

    and being told herbal teas were somehow going to help me... gimme a break!

    fair dos they're caffeine free that's about ALL they're going to do for a detoxing junkie

    if you can barely feel the best heroin any more what the fuck is cammomile tea going to do for you except make you feel a bit warmer?

    Physically I'm pretty knackered to tell you the truth my mind is going beautifully still but nowhere near as intense as last week. Even last week I wasn't the same level all the time I had to pick my moments to try and make phone calls. Then the credit ran out anyhow and now I can't find my own Money Card so I'm living on a £20 I borrowed until I can get my head round either finding or replacing that thing

    longer I don't spend, more money so it's all good

    akkk you set off a bit of a rant, i hope this answers and much more!

    ha ha

    are you not sleeping, or across the world? if I go and check now I'll never answer....


    take it easy :-)

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  3. O wow it's YOU!! Lone Grey Squirrel I saw the photo and thought "that's not very original I know someone else with that avatar" and it was you!

    i thought it said "ig-squirrel" not LG-squirrel

    MALAYSIA wow you must have some fantastic beaches out there the photos I've seen of Malaysia are sublime

    and Malaysian food was the best ever we had Malaysian Restaurant one night. Amazing. Chinese-Malysian probably like Chinese-Thai-Indian to a British person like me and better than any one. If I could only get and do Halal Malaysian food that would be for me as I'm not into prawns, don't like seafood and won't eat pork. That's why I thought when I learn to cook properly I'll do Malaysian or Indonesian I know they're probably as similar as French and Italian but... well if I came from Asia to Europe I'd think all South Europe looked the same. That's what gets me when people talk about Germany or Holland as if they're Mars, they're practically the same! The differences are minor!

    German chocolate and desserts are way better than British. We have a shop called Lidl which is a German supermarket specializing in budget food. Their savory is as good as British (probably better, considering it's a budget shop) but the sweets are amazing. High cocoa content chocolate, proper nice ice cream... wow)

    OK I'll leave it there how are you??!!!

    I'm just about to ping over and see anyhow

    :-) IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME

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  4. Hi Gleds ~~ Thanks for your comments and yes all is well at my house - no floods and reasonable health. Like you, I have been too sick once or twice to go the the doctor, so know what you mean.
    I am glad to hear when you say you are "not allowed" it is because of your self-control. Well done.
    My Dr. says we can leave the kidney stones alone for now (which suits me)Have to see a specialist next week for a second opinion.
    Sorry you have been having trouble sleeping and hope you settle down.
    Thanks for the Viva Australia for the floods and Australia Day yesterday.
    Glad the meetings help a bit- and I'm thrilled that you are craving
    (and they are more obsessed with
    drugs than you. Viva Gledwood.
    I love the Serenity Prayer. Take
    care my friend, Love, Merle.

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  5. Hi Merle

    The problem with drugs and me is I can never be too sure of myself. I feel sure now. I do entire days without thinking of taking heroin, which I never used to. But I know my mood can change. It always used to.

    I go to a mental health drugs meeting which is way better. THEY get me, NA don't, they only get half of me. But NA also talk about taking life on life's terms. They are a group for what we have in common ~ addiction ~ not everything else, and also say you do better focusing on similarities than differences. So I take them for what they are, what they can offer (serenity) ~ they can also offer a refuge if I'm craving and depressed. I'm much more likely to crave when depreseed than feeling good. I'm starting to see there was probably truth (rather than just a nice attractive idea) in the phrase "self medicating" that my old key worker used to use. I probably was self-medicating. I certainly felt vile without heroin, even on methadone and slowly realized I probably felt more vile than most people do. They talk about feeling "flat" whereas I felt suicidal. Not every day, but a lot of days. Or so depressed I just did nothing at all.

    I just heard about that Flood Tax. That's pretty clever politically. Means nobody can complain about it!

    As for the damage... don't even want to think about that one. I hope it all gets fixed soon, that's all.

    And I'm glad you're OK.

    Take care

    xx

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