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!
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
4:18 not very happy
OK this is my FIFTH attempt at posting. Posts 1 and 2 were requests for advice on suicide methods. Probably not entirely appropriate. Posts 3 and 4 had other stuff in but still wanted to know how to go about dying. I'm feeling much better having dropped my last 4 Valium, yeah man I quadroupledropped; I'm desperate). I slept from 10 till midnight. Got up. Mamma Mia my favourite film is playing. Sad perhaps but if you like Greece and think THIS is bad my simple advice: get a life. You gotta do what you gotta do. And if watching Julie Walters and Meryl Streep doing hairbrush singing to some pretty fantastic tunes (exceptions: Dancing Queen, Waterloo ukkkh) that's what I'm doing.
Michael Jackson is playing in black and white. BOTH the discs I tried did this. Why?? Is it my DVD player? How come it plays everything else in colour. Also both MJ discs do that thing when they need rubbing clean: pixelation and start-stop sound. And they were brand new, held by the edge and inserted direct in the machine. If 2 separate discs do this how do I know the other 2 copies they have aren't from the same batch? Because surely they produced an entire duff batch for it to do that.
OK Michael Jackson's on again: the BAD video and it's still black and white with jittering sound. I'm not wiping a disc I haven't touched with my hands so they can look at it and say "you scratched it" so it's going back tomorrow. Which is a look I can do without. Yeah I know part 1 is black and white but the BAD motif is bright red innit, also the "pick a track" selection was black and white as was the intro to it all. Why does this not happen to other people? Why me?
I'm not in a terrible mood but I'm not in a particularly good one either. Got a horrible feeling this is crashing lower and lower. It usually does it the same way; like a wobbly line plunging gradually down. Worst crash ever went from me phoning my Mum around 9am raging (ie very high but irritated); me having one drink en route to the methadone chemist and feeling high on coke (if drink did that to everyone every time shops would sell out overnight, trust me!) then my worker phoning around 11 when I was crystal clear. By 2pm I was curled in a ball eyes closed with vile imagery playing out like a bright inner tv picture. I saw darkness surround me and kept thinking I was in prison in some foreign country for some terrible crime. I felt really dire. It was either this crash or the next one a day or 2 later when the aerial fell off the tv and I didn't even notice the picture was barely there any more though the sound functioned. I stared into space for hours, got up, froze in the middle of the room not knowing what I was doing. Had to go out. Did it but couldn't handle anything about the situation. Got home and curled up into a ball again. That's what happens when it's bad. And I remember those days as the worst ever and I do mean worst ever in my entire life. Worse than heroin cold turkey. Worse than anything else in the endless line of mistakes, fuck-ups, misdemeanours, stupid moves and crises I've got myself into over 38 years. So if that's happening again I'm not engaging with no-one. Not going to NA, probably not going to Nutter Club. Not going to anything bar 2 appointments, one with the dr; another with the shrink, both next week.
My only hope is my jagged shaped mood pattern will whoosh up again from the low. Rather than an undulating wavy line it seems to coast gradually down then rush UP from the lowest point peaking within 3 days or so to a maximum high, coasting gradually down (the best bit, because I'm high but not disabled. Being ultra high means I can barely tie my own shoe laces, let alone "engage in activities with a strong regret potential" or however they phrase it (casual sex, compulsive spending, highly impulsive behaviour) my problem is more letting my mouth run away with me to the point of gross offence and being unable to judge what's supposed to be appropriate or inappropriate re what other people think. And I'd tend to think "fuck 'em anyway!". This high is very compelling. Unlike crack even (but more like E) I just get swept away with it all. And going with a flow, when that flow is pretty amazing, is a heady thing to do.
And you wonder why I'm terrified coming down. Coming down means feeling vile. I have had no "normality" for 9 or 10 weeks. Just ups or downs, some mild, some extreme. No "normality". I know normality is meant to be good. But what actually is it? Is it really so amazing? If it is, how come people who are "normal" appear so stressed.
This really pretty Swedish girl at an NA meeting, who seemed calm, as most anxious people appear superficially calm, said how much she worries. I could have told her how not to worry. No drugs are required. Merely a psychological tennisbat to WHACK bad thought, experience, ideas out of the head.
What Valium is coasting full-on now. Beautiful. Frankly I don't care how much I drink or how much Valium I pop. If that saves my life it's a good thing? Or is mine not a life worth saving? If so: you advise me on 100% lethal at-home suicide methods. Obvious stuff like wrist-slashing is out. It must be quick and quiet. I'll switch off my phone and make sure it's late evening so I have a good 8 hours undisturbed by unwanted landlordly callers. I need no opportunity to panic and change my mind. I need rapid unconsciousness leading to rapid death. So if you want me dead: please advise. I've put all comments on mods now so you won't get in trouble for expressing a sensible opinion. It's sensible that me and life are separated as quickly as possible.
Even God assisted suicide in the old testament. Remember the story of that weakling Samson who let a girl named Delilah rule over him. Thanks to her he lost his amazing strength and found himself grinding corn in a Philistine prison. During his "sentence" his hair grew. So when 5000 of the Great and the Bad, in a feast for their god, insisted "bring out Samson to amuse us" he was duly dragged from prison into the temple where he found himself stood between two narrow pillars. He prayed to God, "please Lord give me strength one last time" and God, who knows everything imbued Samson with strength to break these pillars down, bringing down the roof and killing 5000 aristocrats. God knows everything and was well aware that this last move would kill Samson also. Yet God engaged in Assisted Suicide. Does god EVER break his own rules? No. Meaning suicide is OK.
If I've desperately misread this situation, someone somewhere who knows intimately the issues involved, please put me right here.
O shit; past 4am; absolutely exhausted. Hope I sleep 20 hours tomorrow. I could do iwth extended bed. My I must be off I'm so val'd I'm cross eyed; night-night all!
I can't remember what i wrote. i'll check it then i'll come back to you
you know i had 3 valium and slept 2 hours, then 4 more and slept 3 hours
5 hours' sleep on 70mg diazepam; that's ridiculous
i can't believe this is still going on despite the mood-plummet which isn't terrible i just feel normal shit not horribly depressed honestly i don't. so i should be abolsutely fine, as fine as i ever get but i'm not fine
ALL THESE LIES i was told that stopping drinking would cure me, that stopping heroin would make me happy all UTTER LIES which i knew at the time. but attractive enough at least to try
hi. hope u slept some now. i wasn't doubting your word re; post office hole in wall(as in; check internet if u dont beleive me) y would i not beleive u? i'm sure lots of people make up lots of shit on these blogs, but i dint have u down as one of them. i sort of wish we had hole in wall 4 when i run out of gas/elec/bacca etc, but then again. . . maybe not. anyway i do apologise if i sounded that way. as i said before its easy 2 misunderstand with no voice or face. and yes english as a foreign language is standardized and apparently easier to learn than others .but a foreigner arriving in newcastle, birmingham, norfolk, liverpool, etc etc. will find the spoken very different to the english they have learned (not 2 mention if they were 2 visit scotland, wales etc) i read the comment above about not having 2 go thrugh this alone, and did wonder the other day if u had anyone nearby who could help u blitz your flat or sort out your forms. i know when i go a bit skewwy, paperwork just piles up and next thing its court summons or benefits withdrawn.then if u r ote like me u kind of push help away, assuring yourself u will cope and u will sort it. maybe not. thats just me. i do hope u feeling a little higher than "boring old normal";-) today. o yes sorry i just remebered what i was gonna say yesterday. u were singing the praises of lidl a couple weeks back, lidl and aldi have been here 6 yrs and i hadn't tried them, until last week and yes they r brill, my £120 week food bill was roughly £85 between the 2 shops and good quality. well chuffed with that, ta muchly must go be back later x
ps. i sorry to go on, but stopping H will make u happier, u know it will, its not a lie. H is the liar. its only just over a month since u proper stopped and recovery is a long road. and although valium and drink help at the time 2 "change" things, when they wear off,u generally feel worse than how u felt when u took them. i know its real hard work and days and nights can go on forever, but it is worth it. its not a lie x
a friend of mine just comitted suicide last night. he hung himself in his prison cell. just don't do it. its so pointless. such a waste... stick to it. chill and do some meditation... this stuff is really working.
I think I am going fix my old mountain bike. It's still rideable. I rode it all last summer but the bottom bracket is loose. The bearings are probably shot. It is really old. How is this relevant to your present situation? It isn't. I can advise you on how to fix an old mountain bike, but I can't advise you on the best method to off yourself. I don't have that answer as it is a very personal decision. The way I see things at least for myself is why not wait and see what is around the next corner. There is always plenty of time to eat a bullet. Heck if you wait around long enough, the problem will take care of itself naturally so there is really no need to go jump the gun. Sorry if my advice sounds lame. It's all I am able to offer. Here's to happiness... peace... out.
As you know I am not an expert on this at all. I read the comment above that you have really only been off of H one month? And of course you are still using other things to help you. When I spoke with B's counselor because of his constant mood changes she looked at me like I was the nutter and told me that of course he has severe mood changes - happy, angry, depressed (yes he had attempted suicide albiet 1/2 assed twice) she basically said it was normal "H" - Oxy and who knows what else he was on and how much of it that he has months of going through this as it deeply effects their shit I forgot but something in the brain. The longer you have used it the longer it will take. We don't know if part of his problems were caused from the drug use or prior and that is what got him started and it doesn't matter it is what we must deal with now. Please hang on and just write even when it doesn't make much sense which I know sometimes my blogs don't even when I re-read them I think I must have been really fucked up when I wrote it and I don't do any drugs or drink. I smoke a lot and though and I know it is hurting me but I still do it. I don't know if you realize how much YOU help me or other bloggers that you comment on. For me, you give me insight on my son which is invaluable. I like hearing from other Parents but hearing from you and other's that are going through the pain of trying to stop using helps more than you know. You are always the first one I look for on my comments. You are invaluable to me and I pray for your peace and to get well. And I also think that you shrink should see some of your writings - it makes sense that they would want to know as much about you as possible. Also, sorry to go on but I have a friend that is bi-polar and has severe depression. She actually went to a Mental place for 60 days so they could keep an eye on her and try to get her med's right. That was a problem for her because it takes a long time for your body to adjust. It took almost one year but she is doing amazing now - yes she still has bad days. She belongs to NAMI? Or at least spends a lot of time reading about her problems. It helps. Hang in there - I will always include you in my prayers.
My heart breaks you are going through this severe turmoil where you would even consider suicide, that is has gone on for some time. I too agree with above that you should hurry your appt to the dr and give him a link to your blog. It is so worth it to live, and your life is a life worth living. You have written such thoughtful comments on my blog I appreciate, and I am not even in your town. There are people you may not even know you have touched in a positive way with your life. Please hurry to see the dr, or reach out to someone who can take you. I am not an expert on the Bible... and I do not know your particular faith... but in my faith, I believe God created us in His image and I can not imagine He appreciates when we think He messed up. God loves you as much as he loves anyone else as we are all His children, He loves us equally. I can't imagine He would be okay with it. He thinks you are beautiful. This is my opinion, not trying to get into a Bible debate with anyone :) And what can be more frustrating than DVD rentals that mess up??? lol God bless.
Baino: i don't understand how anyone can help me though all i ever do to other people is drive them crazy or lie lie lie pretending i'm ok when i'm not because it's not acceptable to be me so i just lie that's why i never say "i'm ill" in real life i pretend to be well no matter how shit i feel, then i get treated as well and it's all good. except when i need a dr quick, the dr's never there, except now. they take me seriously and it's nothing to do with my acting. it's because i'm not acting
Jeannie: if i had a printer i'd print it out and highlight in yellow; he's a consultant psychiatrist so very pushed for time also i got it wrong i see ONE dr the consultant the other person is dual diagnosis and person 3 is my drugs keyworker but my gp is useless so i can't go there i was going to make an appointment to update my gp but without a word what can i say? i need the word
BUGGALUGZ: fucking machine lost a comment before i even prest return
paperwork: a total mess lost both dla forms i think they're in with phone chargers not sure
mail i never ever open unless someone eg my mum phones and says something's coming or i won't even check the envelopes the letters are full of shit or threats so i don't open anything and haven't since months on end maybe a year i don't remember and i don't care the world can fuck off
my card works on the chip ie in the PO but the magnetic strip is broken as the card split in half so it won't work hole in the wall
i didn't mean you shouldn't trust me as such but why should anyone trust anyone most people want something off you, know what i mean
i don't want anything off you but you have to be careful and be careful what machine the card goes in it's only the post office's own which is why i call it a 2nd class citizen card
lidl we have aldi i don't know where it is also i'd like to try asda they advertise heavily yet they are too far away to be practical so i do morrisons id' say tescos are most annoying having 3 levels of everything finest (ie proper) normal (shit) and value (bullshit) everything should be finest!
lidl's stuff is at least as good as a normal supermarket and the sweets & ice creams are way better, being german just be careful if you hate pork they put it in beef lasagne i can't believe they have cheek to do that so i stopped going in there also they won't even give a free bag as you may have noticed and have ONE person on a till for about 15 shoppers but apart from that it's all good
and did you know tesco/sainsbury after destroying the corner shop trade in this country had the cheek to mount a legal challenge against these shops when they wanted to come into britain! bastards!
yeah h is the liar but what about this methadone is better shit they keep saying? that's the biggest lie
i had 10x10b hit last night it blew me away which i was really glad of i like it when it has me uncinscious that's the point of heroin it should knock the shit out of you! beautiful
but i'm not bothering wtih it again
apart from a little lapse where the gear was so weak i haven't really taken heroin for about 10 weeks now and that was what gave me that manic depression in erly december ie i was manic and depressed everyone wants to think it was just 2 days of madness over 1 weekend (both sides of my family think that) that was just the spike i saw a dr on the thurs and was so out of it that day he looked really shocked i've never seen a shrink looked so taken aback: what someone in a druggie clinic seeing a shrink and actually mentally ill and not lying. maybe that's a first for him. junkies are fucking liars they have fucked me up because i told the truth and was taken to be like everyone else a big fat liar
all i lied about was how much how often i used as obviously i used all the time but they won't accept that and they won't accept that methadone is SHIT which is why i continued using heroin for years on end despite being scripted
hope this answers everything sorry if this sounds all rude
:KURT kurt you have brought up a lot of stuff i cannot say to you because you just lost your friend so i'll leave it at this i'm sorry for your loss, for the loss of his life. i know 2 people who killed themselves about a year ago and it caused chaos because person 1 was best friends with person 2 who followed suit; person 3 was person 2's girlfriend but she's still alive which surprises all of us as person 3 has the most fucked up life of any of us she's a true survivor
MOLSON: yeah: way i always saw it is you die anyhow so might as well go on to the bitter end like one of those fucked pigeons you see on the street that is scared and cold and wet and can't fly and waiting for some dog to savage it or just to die or be kicked by some kid. that is life
zen and the art of bike maintenance!
TORI: that's why depression after or during opiate detox is considered separate to "clinical depression"... but i'm not in detox i'm on methadone which is more addictive and stronger and i go HIGH on it, low then high which is why they think it's bipolar. by high i mean too fast to think hearing voices not sleeping for days on end all that stuff it feels great though but it's more chaotic than depression ever was, now i'm down again but not that bad i just don't want to be awake id rather have living death if the real thing is unacceptable i'm not surprised michael jackson was into that propofol
i'm glad i help someone
you know i was only on heroin from age 28 to age 38 with about 2 years or so tilting down into it but not addicted at the beginning
the depression was bad enough that i tried to die twice and thought i was dead when i woke up i only bodged it esp the 2nd time because i had drunk so much to intensify the pills and i tried to drown but floated!
as for mood swings i had them increasingly but bipolar books/sites put down confusing stuff and it just does not feel like a mood swing when you have one it feels like having too much energy, i only truly felt high when i was so out of it i couldn't follow a simple conversation, the rest of the time the euphoria came and went, like when you're drunk on your own you think you're ok but someone calls you and you're laughing etc it was a bit like that; the depression i find even harder to know whether it's real as i pretend to be ok all the time and only when i'm so far gone i stare all day into space do i really know i'm depressed and that only happens for very short periods maybe one entire week out of my life whereas i've been depressed and suicidal for months and years
sorry to depress you, basically the professionals who see me think it looks v like bipolar rather than just drugs. nobody i know on heroin/crack/drink has ever got in the mess i got into this might sound self-pitying but i realized it's true and i have to help myself any way i can. i know people with far worse problems but they're schizophrenic which i don't think i am
i always found the problem with moods is your mood feels "normal" nearly all the time no matter how extreme it is especially when you're on your own
i hope your B sorts himself out he sounds like a good kid with a slew of problems it will take him years to get over having said that i bet 95% could be prety much sorted within 6 months 98% within a year... and so on so it's not as terrible as it sounds i think he needs a mentor figure which probably wouldn't be you, you're too exhausted, too emotionally drained and you need to detach with love as they say i hop you both are OK
AKELAMALU: i think i need to print it out and highlight the pertinent stuff in green bc he just won't have time to trawl through he's so busy when he comes in it's like royalty with a train of people asking for this that and the other eg he hsa to sign every script when a worker actually makes the prescrption and could sign but that's the law!
HEATHER'S MOM: I was a bit careful with the Bible stuff I didn't want to be blasphemous but it plainly says God gave power to Samson to push down this temple and in doing so he killed himself. Suicide wasn't the prime motive but by this time Samson was blind and a prisoner and his life was over I think the parable is about physical vs mental strength he had very little of the latter!
i never know what to put about my "recovery" usually i don't even think about heroin and when i did take some last night i just posted up what happened only editing the strings of ddddddddddddddd because there were so many the machine wouldn't accept them. If heroin does that to a computer what is it doing to my brain?
I hadn't realized how much I put about suicide. The other trashed posts were way worse asking for detailed methods etc v dangerous i don't want anyone using my site for suicide advice thats not what its about
i decided if i have the label bipolar i will die then someone family pointed out it is just a word and if i am that i am it anyhow ~ what difference does a name make?
i see the dr in 8 days time ie not tomorrow but next thursday then maybe i get different meds
it feels weird to be a drug addict on meds but i recognize i had mood swings so intense they only treat them with medication it literally felt at times like my brain had gone in a blender on high power, it's not feeling ok then angry then upset it's feeling so fast so high it turns into nonsense then so low everything is meaningless so apart from popping the dr's pills i don't know what to do
Write out what you are feeling in a daily journal and take that to the doctor. It has really helped me to keep a daily journal of what I am thinking and feeling. Hang in there.
I WANT OFF METHADONE AS QUICK AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE!
METHADONE ~ A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH
Heroin Shortage: News
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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
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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.
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!
Nosey Quiz! Have you ever heard voices when you weren't high on drugs?
Here's the 4-methylmethcathinone molecule. This is the "cocaine plus ecstasy"-style "legal high" I took that time and didn't even know what it was... After a brief but intense craze for meow, it was eventually banned in the UK in April 2010
If you wanna see what manic looks like, watch this. If this is the mood she stayed in all day she'd be moderately manic (severely manic is literally all over the place verging into complete incoherence)... I have been known to yell the same stuff over and over, which is why I like this:
Ferry Corsten remix. William Orbit performance. Samuel Barber's Adagio
DJ Seduction: Starlight August 1992
I love this style of music and WHY do kidz today call it OLD SCHOOL? MAKE ME FEEL ANCIENT WHY DONCHA! I really like that ting-ting-tong tune that comes into it about 3 mins in "release the spirit" yeah....! Respect goin' out LizzyD Yeah ;-)
Angelina Joelie: Crazy Chic
Girl Interrupted: best scenes
Mozart's Requiem Tranced Up
I like danced-up tunes now that I'm "OLD". Like this one... The actual name of the tune is "lacrimosa" which means sad. Which is weird it actually sounds uplifting. but there ya go:~~~~~~~~
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Too Bad Its Monday Humor + KATZ
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Sometimes Saintly Nick hasn't been feeling well recently. He spent most of
today at hospital having test run. As you know, he has cancer and the tests
ar...
Great article about addiction
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Drug use is common, drug addiction is rare. About one adult in three will
use an illegal drug in their lifetime and just under 3m people will do so
this ye...
Obat Herbal Stroke Berat dan Ringan
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*Obat Herbal Stroke* - Penyakit ini terjadi karena peredaran darah didalam
organ otak mengalami penyumbatan atau gangguan. Penyakit Stroke ini adalah
adany...
The People You Meet
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Not saying this is a come back of any type, but after farewelling my
darling friend Jeffrey today, I felt the overwhelming need to blog. Met a
weird Japan...
Despair and Dissolution
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I haven't written partly because I was confused by the new setup. Took me
ages just to get to my blog. Frustration.
Everyone can say "I told you so". Hate...
A long time coming....
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I cannot believe I have neglected this blog for so long.
Just to let you know I will be uploading a post in the next couple of days.
Things are good.
My hea...
Gone but never forgotten
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Hello everyone....
Saturday the 24th May would of been Merle's 80th birthday...
Unfortunately she is gone, but never forgotten...
I just thought I would ...
Everything in it's place
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Yum.That people are reading this in Israel and Indonesia, as well as so
many other places around the world that I never would've expected is pretty
fuckin...
How to Negotiate With Used Cars Dealers
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Car traders have excellent discussing abilities. They know how to deal with
their clients with their methods and methods to make sure that they shop.
Amazi...
starry starry night…
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Ho Ho Ho! Hope everyone had a merry fucking Christmas and will enjoy a
drunken orgy of pleasure on New Years Eve. I had a nice Christmas Day with
Melinda(a...
byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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.....I think the time has come to acknowledge that I'm not actually
blogging any more.....
PLUS
I'm off on Sunday for a Big Adventure Down Under, with L...
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Before we dive into another cracker from Paul Gallagher, I first must
congratulate Scott Rush for having his death penalty annulled and the
sentence been ...
Daze of Summer
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Her mentor is one of the most gentle people on the planet. He catches flies
in his hands and sets them free outside his studio, and he flicks
mosquitoes a...
Musings
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A week has passed since my last post and it's been a week of contrasts.
Right smack bang in the middle of week, Wednesday, was Australia Day, a
public holi...
Who buys CRACK without Brown ?
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See these F.cking dealers up here they cant get the brown sold cause its
shite so lots of people are just buying Whisky and im thinking to myself No
For Me...
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Would you trust someone who was never sure if they loved you?
I want to be held (or posses a large amount of drugs)
I want to be skinny and pretty
I want...
The Neighbour's Gun
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I remember those lazy summer nights. In my light, light dress, I would open
the window and gaze at the moon in the night. I would look and almost feel
th...
THIS is classic slice-of-life video; filmed from a sushibar conveyor belt in Japan. You don't need sound for this one (unless you speak Japanese...)
Never Mind The Balearics...
LOST WEEKENDS... Lost weeks... Lost lives...
THE SPANISH ISLE of Ibiza is the "spiritual home" of much British dance music...
Eva Cassidy: Autumn Leaves
I wonder if Autumn is as miserable your end as it is here..? This song wonderfully reinterpreted by Eva Cassidy (I think) brought tears to my eyes when I first heard it. See what you think ...
Christiane F
Christiane F
("Wir Kinder vom Bahnhoff Zoo")
Berlin has long been a centre of "alternative" living, attracting the artistic and dejected. And of course heroin rushes into such a void:
You can see the film in its entirety by clicking HERE.
These are my 3 roborovski hamsters!
(And now there is one...) Itchy, Bashful and Spherical... Itchy, the scruffy, dopey (and tamest one) died a few weeks ago. I was very ****** off (no swearing on this blog (or I'd be effing and blinding all the time...)). Spherical and Bashful were the remaining "Trotters" aka Hamsta MCs, Carrot Nose and Trotter Donkey ... until Trotterdonkey died and now poor Spherical Carrot Nose remains alone ...
What name should I give to my fictional slavering English mastiff hellhound..??
Name the Uncooth Doggie...
NOW I'M PUTTING UP A NEW POLL...My forthcoming fiction shall feature a giant, ill-tempered slavering hellhound of an English Mastiff who spends her time savaging pram wheels, dolls, etc; pulling soft toys apart... growling at houseguests, baying at the light fittings etc etc. She has a total personality change, however, when she gets "raped" down the park by a local rottweiler... leading to a howling, baying, snaggle-toothed litter of puppies!Anyway, which of these three names do you think fits best?(In alphabetical order)GwendolinaPansyTinkerbelle???Vote now ...!!
London Time
GMT (aka "Universal Standard Time"):
ahead of the Americas; behind everywhere else...
Trisch & Jen on the phone
Real life spooky phone call. Trisch Li is speaking to her friend Jen, who has a stalker sneaking round the side of her house. I Love the film exposure. I love the funky background. And I love Trisch. She had bipolar. She died. She left some amazing stuff behind ...You can see Trisch manic here.
Moby: Go
Anyone who was a Twin Peaks fan will know this tune: the in-sequence floaty tune played in-episode (not the theme tune) that made that tellyprog so dreamy.
This tune is something else:~~~~~~~
Future Sound of London: Papua New Guinea
THIS tune is transcendently beautiful.
Thank you to Lizzy who reminded me:~~~~~~~
The Orb: Little Fluffy Clouds (Danny Tengalia)
Archetypal triphead/herb-tokers' tune ...
Urban Shakedown: Some Justice
One of my all time favourite "hardcore" rave tunes. The "woman" singing "we live as one family" is actually a man speeded up. The primal line "Now eeeee-yeah-oh-eeeee-yeah we live as one family," sounded to me like the sun rising at psychedelic dawn. For a long time there was forever a part of me left from this 1991-1992 era, still out there, tripping in a certain corn-on-the-cob field at dawn...
Praga Khan: Injected with a Poison
Sums up what my attitude used to be and is once again to gear. That because, "There's a rainbow inside your mind ... Injected with a poison.... we don't need that any more."
Scott McKenzie: San Francisco
I really used to believe all this crap with all my heart. Peace and love and chemical dreams. If you've ever tripped out high upon higher and sublime upon sublime there is no way of bringing the beauty of the experience back with you... I once had a friend down who brought some cocaine. I did some lines and was soon stuck to the ceiling. I had tickets for a rave in south London. He was too wasted to go. So I had to negotiate an hour and a half nightbus ride all the way down. By Trafalgar Square I was eeing out on 2 pills as well and my eyes such massive discs I couldn't read the bus time tables and had to tell passers-by I'd "forgotten my reading glasses" (how embarrassing)... then I arrived around 3pm. DUR! Not pm (wasn't THAT late 3AM): though these pills didn't wear off till well after 11am which made them superstrong... anyhow... Security let me straight in I'd obviously taken all my drugs (indeed I had: felt like I was flying by this point)... first person I encountered was a middle-aged woman in a ball gown swaying back and forth in the foyer (Brixton Academy: a venue for 5000) I told her: "you are so cool". We subsequently made friends. Watching this video and seeing how stuck in the neverending moment of bliss some "flower kids" are I remember this lady having to tell me: "there's the party. Then the party's over. You have to accept that." But I never could. I wanted happiness to last for ever...
SCOTT MACKENZIE HAS GONE (copyright reasons)
HERE'S JOE BELTRAM 1990 ENERGY FLASH
Who is the superior writer? (From... in no particular order...)
Itchy's "Windy" Face
Not because she has the "farts" but because she "runs like the wind on a windy day" this is Itchy's look when she is nervous...
Bashful and Spherical look like this
(Itchy is a bit smaller)
Bashful's Lookie-Lykie
Hello you Tiny Tubby! Roborovskis are the tiniest of all hamsters, being a mere 5cm/2" fully grown... "Bashful" is pulling a bit of a grumpy face here; but hey!
Should my daily videos stay giant on the top or go mini on my sidebar? (You can only vote once.)
Doggie or Kittie?
You Are: 50% Dog, 50% Cat
You are a nice blend of cat and dog.
You're playful but not too needy. And you're friendly but careful.
And while you have your moody moments, you're too happy to stay upset for long.
38 year-old guy, 6 blogs (the main one is gledwood vol 2 so go there for new postings: blogs are linked via my sidebars), I also have 3 video blogs. One mainly music vids, the other random "novelty" clips from Youtube/etc. The third is my Fabulous Celebrity Blog for fans of trash culture. Unfortunately addicted to drugs - yes it was my own fault but what can I do about it now? Addicted means trapped & can't stop. That's how addicted I am. But that's not ALL I blog about. Apart from drugs I love drink. Apart from drink I'm into little furry animals like Pingpong, my Chinese hamster, and my 3 roborovski hamsters: Itchy, Bashful and Spherical... and ... er, food. Lately there has been a drought of the substance that enslaved me for so long. Will I clean up? Only time will tell...
Fun, comforting, and friendly.
You are a true classic, and while you're not super cutting edge, you're high quality.
People love your company - and have even been known to get addicted to you.
16 comments:
Gleds, I really hope you're telling your drs all you write here in this post - try to get an earlier appointment ... ring them without delay please*!*
I can't remember what i wrote. i'll check it then i'll come back to you
you know i had 3 valium and slept 2 hours, then 4 more and slept 3 hours
5 hours' sleep on 70mg diazepam; that's ridiculous
i can't believe this is still going on despite the mood-plummet which isn't terrible i just feel normal shit not horribly depressed honestly i don't. so i should be abolsutely fine, as fine as i ever get but i'm not fine
ALL THESE LIES i was told that stopping drinking would cure me, that stopping heroin would make me happy all UTTER LIES which i knew at the time. but attractive enough at least to try
what a waste of time
Nah not a waste of time, you just need some company while you go through it. You don't have to do it alone you know.
I think you should give the docs your link so they can read themselves how you go up and down.
hi. hope u slept some now.
i wasn't doubting your word re; post office hole in wall(as in; check internet if u dont beleive me)
y would i not beleive u?
i'm sure lots of people make up lots of shit on these blogs, but i dint have u down as one of them.
i sort of wish we had hole in wall 4 when i run out of gas/elec/bacca etc, but then again. . . maybe not.
anyway i do apologise if i sounded that way. as i said before its easy 2 misunderstand with no voice or face.
and yes english as a foreign language is standardized and apparently easier to learn than others .but a foreigner arriving in newcastle, birmingham, norfolk, liverpool, etc etc. will find the spoken very different to the english they have learned (not 2 mention if they were 2 visit scotland, wales etc)
i read the comment above about not having 2 go thrugh this alone, and did wonder the other day if u had anyone nearby who could help u blitz your flat or sort out your forms. i know when i go a bit skewwy, paperwork just piles up and next thing its court summons or benefits withdrawn.then if u r ote like me u kind of push help away, assuring yourself u will cope and u will sort it. maybe not. thats just me.
i do hope u feeling a little higher than "boring old normal";-)
today.
o yes sorry i just remebered what i was gonna say yesterday.
u were singing the praises of lidl a couple weeks back, lidl and aldi have been here 6 yrs and i hadn't tried them, until last week and yes they r brill, my £120 week food bill was roughly £85 between the 2 shops and good quality. well chuffed with that, ta muchly
must go
be back later
x
ps. i sorry to go on, but stopping H will make u happier, u know it will, its not a lie. H is the liar.
its only just over a month since u proper stopped and recovery is a long road.
and although valium and drink help at the time 2 "change" things, when they wear off,u generally feel worse than how u felt when u took them. i know its real hard work and days and nights can go on forever, but it is worth it. its not a lie
x
a friend of mine just comitted suicide last night. he hung himself in his prison cell. just don't do it. its so pointless. such a waste... stick to it. chill and do some meditation... this stuff is really working.
I think I am going fix my old mountain bike. It's still rideable. I rode it all last summer but the bottom bracket is loose. The bearings are probably shot. It is really old. How is this relevant to your present situation? It isn't. I can advise you on how to fix an old mountain bike, but I can't advise you on the best method to off yourself. I don't have that answer as it is a very personal decision. The way I see things at least for myself is why not wait and see what is around the next corner. There is always plenty of time to eat a bullet. Heck if you wait around long enough, the problem will take care of itself naturally so there is really no need to go jump the gun. Sorry if my advice sounds lame. It's all I am able to offer. Here's to happiness... peace... out.
As you know I am not an expert on this at all. I read the comment above that you have really only been off of H one month? And of course you are still using other things to help you. When I spoke with B's counselor because of his constant mood changes she looked at me like I was the nutter and told me that of course he has severe mood changes - happy, angry, depressed (yes he had attempted suicide albiet 1/2 assed twice) she basically said it was normal "H" - Oxy and who knows what else he was on and how much of it that he has months of going through this as it deeply effects their shit I forgot but something in the brain. The longer you have used it the longer it will take. We don't know if part of his problems were caused from the drug use or prior and that is what got him started and it doesn't matter it is what we must deal with now. Please hang on and just write even when it doesn't make much sense which I know sometimes my blogs don't even when I re-read them I think I must have been really fucked up when I wrote it and I don't do any drugs or drink. I smoke a lot and though and I know it is hurting me but I still do it. I don't know if you realize how much YOU help me or other bloggers that you comment on. For me, you give me insight on my son which is invaluable. I like hearing from other Parents but hearing from you and other's that are going through the pain of trying to stop using helps more than you know. You are always the first one I look for on my comments. You are invaluable to me and I pray for your peace and to get well. And I also think that you shrink should see some of your writings - it makes sense that they would want to know as much about you as possible. Also, sorry to go on but I have a friend that is bi-polar and has severe depression. She actually went to a Mental place for 60 days so they could keep an eye on her and try to get her med's right. That was a problem for her because it takes a long time for your body to adjust. It took almost one year but she is doing amazing now - yes she still has bad days. She belongs to NAMI? Or at least spends a lot of time reading about her problems. It helps. Hang in there - I will always include you in my prayers.
Gleds I'm really worried about you. I think Jeannie's idea of giving your docs a link to your blog is a good one. Please take care of yourself. x
My heart breaks you are going through this severe turmoil where you would even consider suicide, that is has gone on for some time. I too agree with above that you should hurry your appt to the dr and give him a link to your blog.
It is so worth it to live, and your life is a life worth living.
You have written such thoughtful comments on my blog I appreciate, and I am not even in your town. There are people you may not even know you have touched in a positive way with your life. Please hurry to see the dr, or reach out to someone who can take you.
I am not an expert on the Bible... and I do not know your particular faith... but in my faith, I believe God created us in His image and I can not imagine He appreciates when we think He messed up. God loves you as much as he loves anyone else as we are all His children, He loves us equally. I can't imagine He would be okay with it. He thinks you are beautiful.
This is my opinion, not trying to get into a Bible debate with anyone :)
And what can be more frustrating than DVD rentals that mess up??? lol
God bless.
Baino: i don't understand how anyone can help me though all i ever do to other people is drive them crazy or lie lie lie pretending i'm ok when i'm not because it's not acceptable to be me so i just lie that's why i never say "i'm ill" in real life i pretend to be well no matter how shit i feel, then i get treated as well and it's all good. except when i need a dr quick, the dr's never there, except now. they take me seriously and it's nothing to do with my acting. it's because i'm not acting
Jeannie: if i had a printer i'd print it out and highlight in yellow; he's a consultant psychiatrist so very pushed for time also i got it wrong i see ONE dr the consultant the other person is dual diagnosis and person 3 is my drugs keyworker but my gp is useless so i can't go there i was going to make an appointment to update my gp but without a word what can i say? i need the word
BUGGALUGZ: fucking machine lost a comment before i even prest return
paperwork: a total mess lost both dla forms i think they're in with phone chargers not sure
mail i never ever open unless someone eg my mum phones and says something's coming or i won't even check the envelopes the letters are full of shit or threats so i don't open anything and haven't since months on end maybe a year i don't remember and i don't care the world can fuck off
my card works on the chip ie in the PO but the magnetic strip is broken as the card split in half so it won't work hole in the wall
i didn't mean you shouldn't trust me as such but why should anyone trust anyone most people want something off you, know what i mean
i don't want anything off you but you have to be careful and be careful what machine the card goes in it's only the post office's own which is why i call it a 2nd class citizen card
lidl we have aldi i don't know where it is also i'd like to try asda they advertise heavily yet they are too far away to be practical so i do morrisons id' say tescos are most annoying having 3 levels of everything finest (ie proper) normal (shit) and value (bullshit) everything should be finest!
lidl's stuff is at least as good as a normal supermarket and the sweets & ice creams are way better, being german just be careful if you hate pork they put it in beef lasagne i can't believe they have cheek to do that so i stopped going in there also they won't even give a free bag as you may have noticed and have ONE person on a till for about 15 shoppers but apart from that it's all good
and did you know tesco/sainsbury after destroying the corner shop trade in this country had the cheek to mount a legal challenge against these shops when they wanted to come into britain! bastards!
yeah h is the liar but what about this methadone is better shit they keep saying? that's the biggest lie
i had 10x10b hit last night it blew me away which i was really glad of i like it when it has me uncinscious that's the point of heroin it should knock the shit out of you! beautiful
but i'm not bothering wtih it again
apart from a little lapse where the gear was so weak i haven't really taken heroin for about 10 weeks now and that was what gave me that manic depression in erly december ie i was manic and depressed everyone wants to think it was just 2 days of madness over 1 weekend (both sides of my family think that) that was just the spike i saw a dr on the thurs and was so out of it that day he looked really shocked i've never seen a shrink looked so taken aback: what someone in a druggie clinic seeing a shrink and actually mentally ill and not lying. maybe that's a first for him. junkies are fucking liars they have fucked me up because i told the truth and was taken to be like everyone else a big fat liar
all i lied about was how much how often i used as obviously i used all the time but they won't accept that and they won't accept that methadone is SHIT which is why i continued using heroin for years on end despite being scripted
hope this answers everything sorry if this sounds all rude
:KURT kurt you have brought up a lot of stuff i cannot say to you because you just lost your friend so i'll leave it at this i'm sorry for your loss, for the loss of his life. i know 2 people who killed themselves about a year ago and it caused chaos because person 1 was best friends with person 2 who followed suit; person 3 was person 2's girlfriend but she's still alive which surprises all of us as person 3 has the most fucked up life of any of us she's a true survivor
MOLSON: yeah: way i always saw it is you die anyhow so might as well go on to the bitter end like one of those fucked pigeons you see on the street that is scared and cold and wet and can't fly and waiting for some dog to savage it or just to die or be kicked by some kid. that is life
zen and the art of bike maintenance!
TORI: that's why depression after or during opiate detox is considered separate to "clinical depression"... but i'm not in detox i'm on methadone which is more addictive and stronger and i go HIGH on it, low then high which is why they think it's bipolar. by high i mean too fast to think hearing voices not sleeping for days on end all that stuff it feels great though but it's more chaotic than depression ever was, now i'm down again but not that bad i just don't want to be awake id rather have living death if the real thing is unacceptable i'm not surprised michael jackson was into that propofol
i'm glad i help someone
you know i was only on heroin from age 28 to age 38 with about 2 years or so tilting down into it but not addicted at the beginning
the depression was bad enough that i tried to die twice and thought i was dead when i woke up i only bodged it esp the 2nd time because i had drunk so much to intensify the pills and i tried to drown but floated!
as for mood swings i had them increasingly but bipolar books/sites put down confusing stuff and it just does not feel like a mood swing when you have one it feels like having too much energy, i only truly felt high when i was so out of it i couldn't follow a simple conversation, the rest of the time the euphoria came and went, like when you're drunk on your own you think you're ok but someone calls you and you're laughing etc it was a bit like that; the depression i find even harder to know whether it's real as i pretend to be ok all the time and only when i'm so far gone i stare all day into space do i really know i'm depressed and that only happens for very short periods maybe one entire week out of my life whereas i've been depressed and suicidal for months and years
sorry to depress you, basically the professionals who see me think it looks v like bipolar rather than just drugs. nobody i know on heroin/crack/drink has ever got in the mess i got into this might sound self-pitying but i realized it's true and i have to help myself any way i can. i know people with far worse problems but they're schizophrenic which i don't think i am
i always found the problem with moods is your mood feels "normal" nearly all the time no matter how extreme it is especially when you're on your own
i hope your B sorts himself out he sounds like a good kid with a slew of problems it will take him years to get over having said that i bet 95% could be prety much sorted within 6 months 98% within a year... and so on so it's not as terrible as it sounds i think he needs a mentor figure which probably wouldn't be you, you're too exhausted, too emotionally drained and you need to detach with love as they say i hop you both are OK
AKELAMALU: i think i need to print it out and highlight the pertinent stuff in green bc he just won't have time to trawl through he's so busy when he comes in it's like royalty with a train of people asking for this that and the other eg he hsa to sign every script when a worker actually makes the prescrption and could sign but that's the law!
HEATHER'S MOM: I was a bit careful with the Bible stuff I didn't want to be blasphemous but it plainly says God gave power to Samson to push down this temple and in doing so he killed himself. Suicide wasn't the prime motive but by this time Samson was blind and a prisoner and his life was over I think the parable is about physical vs mental strength he had very little of the latter!
i never know what to put about my "recovery" usually i don't even think about heroin and when i did take some last night i just posted up what happened only editing the strings of ddddddddddddddd because there were so many the machine wouldn't accept them. If heroin does that to a computer what is it doing to my brain?
I hadn't realized how much I put about suicide. The other trashed posts were way worse asking for detailed methods etc v dangerous i don't want anyone using my site for suicide advice thats not what its about
i decided if i have the label bipolar i will die then someone family pointed out it is just a word and if i am that i am it anyhow ~ what difference does a name make?
i see the dr in 8 days time ie not tomorrow but next thursday then maybe i get different meds
it feels weird to be a drug addict on meds but i recognize i had mood swings so intense they only treat them with medication it literally felt at times like my brain had gone in a blender on high power, it's not feeling ok then angry then upset it's feeling so fast so high it turns into nonsense then so low everything is meaningless so apart from popping the dr's pills i don't know what to do
Write out what you are feeling in a daily journal and take that to the doctor. It has really helped me to keep a daily journal of what I am thinking and feeling. Hang in there.
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