Author: chinagirl

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:18 am

Katherine,

I am so sorry for your loss. Even though you don’t know me I empathize with what you are going through…and what your son went through. Thank you for having the courage to come to the forum and tell us. In your pain you are reaching out to help others…that’s an amazing gift you have.

As a therapist and also on Sub I believe that we need more than just suboxone. Suboxone helps stop the cravings, helps our brains heal from the daily up and down of active using. Sub isn’t perfect, but it is a tool. One tool out of many that we need I believe.

Except for pain patients, most of us used to stop feeling. Escape from uncomfortable emotions. Many of us have had childhood abuse and have not grown up with healthy ways to deal with life. So we need help. Good therapy with someone who understands addiction and Sub is vital for us I think. We can go to AA or NA, SMART recovery…those are free and I believe those things work, too. There is no ONE way to recover. We all decide individually what works for us. But it does call for action.

I believe Sub shouldn’t be used alone. I believe we need more. You said your son was tormented by his emotions….I think most of us relate to that. I still suffer from thinking too much at times, or not having the behavior I am trying to change. I’ve felt like giving up at times. And if it wasn’t for my recovery program, which happens to be AA, I wouldn’t be willing to look at my behavior…I’d probably be an angry, tormented, unhappy individual.

Opiate addiction is deadly. It has a low recovery rate. We need to reach out and get all the help we can in order to get out from under this disease and to change how we cope. Our best thinking got us on Sub. so what makes us think that just being on Sub will make everything better? It doesn’t. I think at the very least we need someone safe, and healthy that we talk to daily, get advice from, bounce our thinking off of….someone to give us reality checks…but I also believe that in order to change our behavior we need to change our behavior…and doing that means changing how we think. It’s pretty hard to do that alone.

Thank you, again, for coming to the forum, Katherine.

Author: chinagirl

Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:18 am

Katherine,

I am so sorry for your loss. Even though you don’t know me I empathize with what you are going through…and what your son went through. Thank you for having the courage to come to the forum and tell us. In your pain you are reaching out to help others…that’s an amazing gift you have.

As a therapist and also on Sub I believe that we need more than just suboxone. Suboxone helps stop the cravings, helps our brains heal from the daily up and down of active using. Sub isn’t perfect, but it is a tool. One tool out of many that we need I believe.

Except for pain patients, most of us used to stop feeling. Escape from uncomfortable emotions. Many of us have had childhood abuse and have not grown up with healthy ways to deal with life. So we need help. Good therapy with someone who understands addiction and Sub is vital for us I think. We can go to AA or NA, SMART recovery…those are free and I believe those things work, too. There is no ONE way to recover. We all decide individually what works for us. But it does call for action.

I believe Sub shouldn’t be used alone. I believe we need more. You said your son was tormented by his emotions….I think most of us relate to that. I still suffer from thinking too much at times, or not having the behavior I am trying to change. I’ve felt like giving up at times. And if it wasn’t for my recovery program, which happens to be AA, I wouldn’t be willing to look at my behavior…I’d probably be an angry, tormented, unhappy individual.

Opiate addiction is deadly. It has a low recovery rate. We need to reach out and get all the help we can in order to get out from under this disease and to change how we cope. Our best thinking got us on Sub. so what makes us think that just being on Sub will make everything better? It doesn’t. I think at the very least we need someone safe, and healthy that we talk to daily, get advice from, bounce our thinking off of….someone to give us reality checks…but I also believe that in order to change our behavior we need to change our behavior…and doing that means changing how we think. It’s pretty hard to do that alone.

Thank you, again, for coming to the forum, Katherine.