Author: tearj3rker
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:11 am
Hope, you’re really doing great! It sounds to me like you’re in the tail end of your acute withdrawal. Given you jumped off approx 1mg, it makes sense that you have a smoother ride than I did.
A coupla things I noticed when I moved far away to get clean… Is that you can’t rely on "geographicals". Like Romeo said, surviving acute withdrawal is only a part of a greater journey. Challenges will lie ahead. You may have periods of craving, and if you allow yourself to feed into it, being away from your stomping ground won’t be much of a barrier.
Something that’s really helped me is … that the moment I have a desire to move backwards in my life, or get destructive… I immediately focus / think about / work on something positive in my life. Maybe I think about my desire to get a good career, and open up my text-books, learn or build something. Or I listen to an inspiring self-help tape. Get into some Tony Robbins sh*t. Do a recovery group. 
Just something that redirects my thoughts to recovery / life-building stuff. Using any drug = backwards. Life = forwards.
If you can get to a point where it’s like a knee-jerk reaction… the moment you have any kind of negative addictive desire, you immediately without 2nd thought direct yourself to the positive. I think you’ll be in good stead. For me, it came from doing a difficult treatment to repair the damage to my body from my heroin. It made me realise that I truly wanted to live, and that using always leads to being sick, and to losing out.
Good luck!
