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Helpful Activities for Recovery
by SoulfullyAButterfly
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 September 1st
...See more What hobbies or activities have you found helpful in your recovery?
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Recovery Journey Tips
by SoulfullyAButterfly
Last post
 August 31st
...See more What tips would you give to someone who is just starting their recovery journey?
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Alcohol & Drug Addiction Automated Taglist!
by tommy
Last post
 August 24th
...See more Welcome to the Alcohol & Drug Addiction Taglist This thread is an auto-updating list. The list is regularly updated by forum leaders and can be found below. Having issues? Reply to this thread and someone will help you! Why should I join the taglist? ✔ Never miss out on sub-community check-ins, discussions or events ✔ Get tagged and notified by community leaders whenever a new relevant thread has been posted ✔ Become a more active member of the community. What do I need to do? ✅ To add yourself to this taglist, press the Post to Thread button below and write the exact words Please add me. ❌ To remove yourself from this taglist, press the Post to Thread button below and write the exact words Please remove me. ------------------------- Current taglist as of 26 August (updated by @tommy) @blueFan4699 @braveHuman6773 @jrk27 @Kitamean @PeanutButterMurph @texaswily @tommy @tornwillow @transurvivor @veronikamalik
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i think i need help
by vampyrelli
Last post
 August 25th
...See more Hi, I'm new here and I decided to join because I think I can't control addiction anymore, for a long time I feel that my life is going much faster than I can control, I took refuge in substances that I shouldn't and now I think I get worse and I became addicted, I'm 17, I genuinely don't think I should feel like this at this age:(  I just need words of support or something that can help me, I don't want my life to be like this, but I don't see another way
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Maybe its too soon?
by AGirlWithAWeirdName
Last post
 August 6th
...See more I have been smoking for a while now. Not at a stretch though, just when life starts life-ing and i cannot cope on my own. Pills used to be my thing as well as alcohol but i decided to quit. I was sober for a while but i fell off the wagon again. Feels like i traded one addiction for the other. I really want to stop....I really do I want to throw this pack of cigarette i have stashed in my cupboard away but i am so scared. I am scared that this act of courage - throwing away the cigarette, would be shortlived. I worry that by the time life starts life-ing again, i am going to back at this point. 
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Family member is addicted
by Chardonny123
Last post
 July 30th
...See more Hi. My husband is battling heroin addiction and I don't know how to help him.
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12 Steps
by ListenerRick
Last post
 July 7th
...See more Step 1: We admitted that we were powerless over addiction and that our lives had become unmanageable. When we fall away from the plan God has for us, our despair, chaos and disorder can cause us to feel physically sick and may result in serious illness. From friends in Recovery.
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I have a high pressure software job and severe adhd
by considerateSpruce6517
Last post
 May 6th
...See more As I’m sure you can gather from the title. I have a stimulant addiction. But I also have a medically necessary reason to have them with my adhd. I’ve tried tapering off and alternative medications but it all comes down to the same thing every time. My work performance suffers so strongly that I risk losing my job and then I would be in a much bigger problem. I just want to not need them as my crutch but I can’t stop them. When I lost my insurance and ability to get my adderall I started buying armodafinil as a cheap substitute from online Indian pharmacies. I just hate feeling like I’m not in charge of the controls anymore. It feels like I’m John Malkovich in the movie Being John Malkovich. I can see everything happening but I’m not consciously controlling it. I could reach out and stop at any time but doing so would throw my life into turmoil.
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How do you get out of the spiral?
by ResetRebel
Last post
 April 29th
...See more Hi all, Im currently in recovery for alcohol and cocaine. Its been going well but currently im in a 4 day spiral of solid use that I cant seem to stop.  What do you guys do to break the momentum of a binge like this, get to sleep and start sobriety again tomorrow?
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Narcissistic parent
by Silentlioness
Last post
 February 23rd
...See more I’m dealing with severe stress, anxiety and depression because of my narcissistic mother and father who happily stands by her side. I feel like I’m under constant under attack. I don’t work because I’m emotionally and psychically drained. Feeling like this for years! I take drugs daily to cope with all of this. I hate what it is doing to me inside and out. I feel ashamed and nearly come outside. I want to go back to my life before the drugs but the addiction is getting the best of me day by day.
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Crossed
by jboy19
Last post
 February 14th
...See more I’m freaking out. I hate getting crossed faded, but I’m so convinced that it will make me feel better that I do it anyways. Now I’m just scared I’m going smth bad will happen to me.. I wish I could stop myself. A doctor warned me that if I didn’t take the “recovery road” while dealing with bipolar disorder that I would continue to fall into this cycle with substance abuse being one of the stops. I just can’t deal with the world sober. I feel like I have to be high, or if I survived I week I HAVE to be hammered on the weekends. I wish I could find joy sober.  
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Why do I keep on coming back to meth?
by JustaJunkie
Last post
 January 27th
...See more I've been trying to quit this *** for the better part of 3, coming up on 4 years. I've learned a lot about what triggers me, I know how to play the tape all the way through, I know box breathing and all it's variations, I know just about everything that should be able to keep me from relapsing. But time and time again I find myself back in the exact same ***. I was clean about 3 months this time around, never had much longer than 8 months consecutively. I've seen this drug take everything from me and leave me with nothing but a Stockholm syndrome with meth at the helm of my obsession. It's not like I don't want to quit... I want nothing more in this life than to be free of this damn drug. I don't want to live in chains my whole life, so why do I always, always, always make the same decision to lock myself right back up into the *** I know will destroy me? My mom found me out the other day. She called me a "*** idiot" and said I "deserve to feel like ***" and I'm thinking she's right. Because no man in their good sense and honest word could be in the situation I'm in and have been for so long. Most of my entire adult life has been taken by this drug, I'm 23 and have been struggling with addiction since 19. Who can I really blame but myself though... Nobody put the pipe to my mouth. Nobody held me down and stuck a needle in my arm. Nobody forced me to sniff a line. I do it all to myself just fine enough and every day too. Childhood trauma can only excuse my severe intellectually lacking self destructive decision making for so long... I wonder who I would have been if I had never decided to take this awful drug. Will this ever end?
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Drug addiction
by compassionateCar7091
Last post
 January 27th
...See more beneath every behavior there is a feeling, and beneath each feeling is a need and when we meet that need rather than focus on the behavior, we begin to deal with the cause, not the symptom
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Addicted to Adderall
by faithfulSky8060
Last post
 December 28th, 2025
...See more 60 bi married male live alone struggling with being bipolar and ADHD and bisexual use to love running long time ago
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Percocet
by ladyelliemae
Last post
 December 19th, 2025
...See more Hi Can someone message me who has an addiction to Percocets or know of someone who is and can help me with questions?

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