Author: Bboy42287
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:58 pm
| Lillyval wrote: |
| Bboy, I think you said you were training to be a drug and alcohol abuse counselor, is that right? If so, you probably know that one of the techniques they use a lot is having people write a letter to the person(s) or drug that they are angry at. I’m starting to see the bigger picture of what you are saying, and I can see that you are angry at a lot of different people/things for different reasons. Even though you got al lot of it off of your chest here, I would take out some pieces of paper and put the headings: DOCTORS, MANUFACTURER, SUBOXONE, FORUM MEMBERS, etc. and under each heading write out all the reasons you are angry at them. Maybe it can help you unload all of the negative feelings you have and then you can just move forward with your methadone treatment without dragging around all that regret over the last 5+ years. Does that make sense?
I know older people like me always say stuff like this, but I have to say it because it’s true. You have a lot of good years ahead of you. You’re taking control of your recovery and your life now and it looks to me like you have a great future ahead. So do whatever it takes and kick those bad feelings about the last few years to the curb! Don’t let it drag you down. Keep your eyes on the prize. |
THANK YOU SO MUCH LILLY!!!!!!!!!!
You speak the truth Lilly and I thank you for that. Your words of wisdom really just clicked with something in the back of my brain. Because you are so right and to hold all this anger with me is not healthy for my recovery and I need to learn how to kick it to the curb. But like Romeo said turn this bad experience into knowledge for new comers to see both sides of suboxone but the proper way. I also need to talk about this with my counselors and group members because that is the whole point of seeing/attending is to talk about things that are on my mind and hear numerous ways to cope with these feelings. I guess the anger is so strong because it was 5 almost 6 years of my life and I lost another 6 to addiction so the last 12 years that’s half my life I lost to this shit. And when I finally found suboxone I thought that was all over but that wasn’t the case and that is why I hold so much anger because the false hope and lies. But I do plan on writing this letter out because I think reading it/slash seeing it might really be great therapy for me and to bring this letter to go over with my counselors. So now I guess I got to think of how I can turn my knowledge into helping others not pissing people off lol and choose a better choice of words.
John boy I don’t drink so I couldn’t tell you if you would be able to drink more if you were on methadone but I do know people are drinking on it because some people get breathalyzers each day if suspected and only get like a quarter of their dose if failed and after 3 times you are detoxed and kicked to the curb. But really put your pain into perspective man and track it for the next couple months if you see no improvement what so ever than bring up the idea of methadone to your suboxone DR and see what he has to say. But really listen because some DR wont be honest with you about methadone because of the stigma that follows it and if you don’t think you got the right answerer. Call a methadone clinic and ask to speak to the RN and go from there.
Stay tune for a update tomorrow now that is over I would really like for you guys to continue to post in this thread and share what you have to say or what you are thinking when you read my post. And I ask be as honest as you want I can take it.
