im new to this so its probly going to be a hue rant. so much has happened and its so hard to talk about. i dont know how this is going to go but …… ill start by saying my name is kyle im 25 and live in DE. i guess the core of my issues comes from the way i was treated as a child, i came from a well to do family with two drug addicted parents. even being fucked up all the time they were loving parents who provided everything material i ever needed but the emotional support was hardly ever there. i was the first born(of 3), the prodigal son with the 154IQ my whole childhood no one worried about me i was the intelligent self reliant little kid that every partent hoped for. while my terror younger brother constantly needed to be watched and reprimanded. my like continued in this way untill 8th grade. i wanted somthing to get me attention, to make me more popular get me noticed. my parents were really into pharmys(pills) i could just go in the closet and take a couple bong rips, grab some pills and they never noticed. what i thought would get me introuble with my partents and get me in trouble they barely noticed at first, but i loved it the highs, the addrenaline so i started to study cuz hell thats what i was good at i learned everything there was to learn about pills and pot first. and i mean everything…. i started out getting my first PDR (doctors drug guide) for christmas of freshman year. they still had no idea at this point my sister was starting school we were starting to have financial probs but no one noticed me still except at high school. there i was popular. quickly gained the nickname “doc” and it felw from there i ran the whole pill raquet in my school including selling to teachers janitors. i loved the attnention and respect. i was invited to every party even if i didnt stay it was a big deal for me to show up. but by junior year i hit a wall i had started seeing a doc to get scripts of 200 OC 40mg a month. by this time i had shared my addiction with my partents, i wasnt making any money, stopped oing to school as much as i should have and withdrew to my room, i ended up getting kicked out of my private school with a 3.4 lifetime gpa(damn french) not for grades or selling drugs but cuz i was to high to be there. shortly after i told my parents i wanted to end my addiction and that i needed help,(in there defence i only think my parents knew i took them not how addicted i really was to pain killers) i was sent to father martin’s ashley at the time the second most expencive rehab on the east coast.. i mean the place was a former governers mansion. i came out of there off the pain killers but went back to pills right away, i litterally called in a xanax refill on my drive home from hab. well…. that is the start of what i call the xanax years. i dont remember much here except the end for almost 3 years i was taking 32mg of xanax a day i got to 8mg 4x daily just to get by. so off to rehab i went again… things went better when i got out this time. i was finally straightening my life out and was going to use all this potential people kept telling me about. still i wasnt happy but this was the closest i have been since i was little and naive. but that period didnt last long dad got really sick they didnt know what was wrong with this wound on his foot it wouldnt heal but it wasnt diabetes.. the docs were stumped for a while by the time i got them all to agree it was periferial arterial disease he had lost his leg and my dad fell into a deep depression we were hardly able to take care of him being that he was 6’4″ 300lbs and couldnt move much. he gave up on his physical therapy, all the money was gone by now eaten by medical bills and years of unemployment. twice we went on to loose our house and live in hotels for months during these times dad would be placed in various facilitlys each one messing with his medication list more and more. till may 27th 2007 my father was in the new rental house we had just moved into…he had a seizure and arrithmia at the same time like he had several times before. mom thought we were just on the way to get him cardioverted and discharged in 24hours like normal. but this time it was v-tac and he went into a coma and his systems started shutting down. he was basically a veg for a week before passing away. for 33 years my parents had been together and now my mom felt alone. my father had no life insurance and the funeral put us so far under we lost the house we had just gotten now we were homeless again. a car accident in 2006 had started up my pain killer dependancy again which didnt help things for mebut the 5000$ settlement put mom up in a hotel for a while. i had to leave the hotel to stay with a friend at the time because my brother and i couldnt be in the same room and he had a valid drivers liscence.(i had lost mine driving dad to the hospital with out insurance or registration and it was BS but thats yet another story.)so my brother stayed with my mom and i moved in with a friend and then eventually started renting a room at a flop house(too dangerous to bring mom too). well while i was at the flop house i managed to find myself a great friend and roommate and find mom a house. so rob(roommate) and i got a place not far from moms new house. she was so excited to be back in a house,she seemed happy on the outside when i visited but torn inside, i figured it was feelings about my fathers death that she hadnt dealt with,i was wrong. about 6 months later rob and i got into it with our landlord and moved in with mom.i had no idea what was really going on the past year and a half though. my brother had gotten him self addicted to pills and was beating my mother and taking hers leaving her in more pain..this is a diff subject to write about right now……. so ill end for now and fill in more later…… i could go on about my pride and joy little sister:) and how i feel horrible for not being there even more than i was or all my past fucked up relationships… jesus i could probly write a book here but this is good for now. when i started this today it was actually because i was online looking for a better way to kill myself using pharms but instead ended up coming here to vent rather than make a plan. and wow i actually feel a lil better after writing just that little bit of my life. however i do feel that i could have easily taken myself back to a bad place talking about my brother. i think my biggest prob since my father died has been this feeling that im responcible for everyone and everything and this damned addiction, i dont know if i will ever be rid of it, i dont know if im ready. mail me at obiKYLEkenobi@gmail.com if you wanna talk about anything. peace. kyle
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you need to get over this addicton. get your bro help. get your family help. there are many people out there that would be willing. you could. trust me on that. as for relationships. 😛 everyone has those. *rolls eyes* trust me i had an abusive ex lets just yeah leave it at that. 🙂 hang in there
i currently see a therapist who i have told about my brother the only way to get him help is to have him arrested which i have talked to my mom about and she says she will kill herself if she loses one more peice of her life. she actually attempted last month with a couple handfulls of tylenol PM and the hospital released her as soon as the tylenol was out of her liver, didnt even set her up with a psych. and as far as getting over the addiction it dosent work that way addiction is a disease i have to live with the rest of my life how ever i dont have to use the rest of my life. i tryed going to the methadone clinic last week but they turned me away. i keep getting two days or three days clean but when i do all my emotions run back in and its overwhelming. and i repeat the cycle. now compaired to where my addiction was a few years ago im doing great and should be happy just about the improvement but im not. i just dont know what to do
Julie 24 from NY. I just wanted to let you know that getting over an addiction is hard, but if you have support from family, friends or even an support group, it makes it a lot easier. I was addicted to painkillers, muscle relaxants and anti anxiety meds for a long. I used to steal them from the pharmacy I worked at. But I got caught. I wasn’t ‘ready’ to give it up, but in a way forced to. Some people need that push. They have a lot of resources out there for you, you have to advocate for yourself. You are so worth a life of sobriety and happiness. While I still struggle with Bipolar and self mutilation, I at least don’t have to worry about an addiction. You can focus on your emotional well being when you get rid of the drugs. The best way to stop is to cut yourself off from the source of you addiction, then consult an in or outpatient rehab clinic to see if you need medical detox. That’s all you need to do for now. Everything else falls into place after you get the ball rolling. It is scary to get rid of the ‘coping mechinism’ you have used for so long. But you learn so many new ways to help yourself. Having someone who has been through it and can listen to you is so helpful. I know you can do this. If you ever need someone to talk to, you can always e-mail me if you any questions or concerns. Juliet61085@aol.com I know you can beat this. Besides, it’s just a pill – don’t let that tiny thing change you.
you CAN get over addictions, its hard and it takes time but it can happen. im addicted to biting myself, i almost got rid of it… but idk if im ready to give it up yet. i quit for 2 months, thats my record since i started. 2 weeks clean right now, we can work together if you like. murtaugh3@gmail.com email me, we can see who can go the longest without =) DONT let your mom kill herself… but you do need to get your brother some help. talk to her about it some more, see if you can change her mind. after all, she wouldnt really be losing him, he would just be going away for a while to get better. hopefully. your little sister can help you too… have her be your inspiration. if you have no one else, your family can be your reason to stay clean. try it, see where it goes.