Popular Post Greg Posted February 4, 2015 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 i haven't posted here for awhile but I want everyone to know I'm doing good, I've posted at least 1700 times on this site and I would never have been able to get clean without this site. For all the veterans and all the newbies I thank you for being a part of this amazing site. Any new people here I encourage you to post and read and read and post because it's therapeutic and by reading you will learn so much about your addiction and understand how NOT alone you are. You will read stories upon stories and say "holy cow, that is me!!' And you will hear so many different perspectives on how they overcome. Every story is linked with a common theme and that is an undying desire to quit and the willingness to do whatever it takes and have all the persistence in the world to get clean because enough is enough already. I look back and I am upset about the years and years I wasted in an adderall haze, about the days I woke up and the only thing I looked forward to was my adderall pills, how I justified so many ways that I needed to take them whether it was to fend off lethargy or because I needed it to feel invincible in life because I couldn't do it on my own will and fortitude. Now being four years clean I am so aware of how ridiculous my thinking was and how much my thoughts were driven by a physical and psychological dependency on a drug I never needed in the first place. But what I want to say in this post, being someone four years out from addiction, is that I've learned a lot from my time being an addict and that has done so much to shape my future going forward. I learned what it was like to hit the lowest of lows, to be hospitalized, to lose my job, to frighten the people who cared most about me. I now know what rock bottom is and that has motivated me to work hard-ER in life to get as far away from rock bottom as I can. It's made me so much more grateful about being sober, more grateful than anyone who has has never dealt with addiction could ever know. I am grateful for my sobriety, and every success, and every step in the right direction. I am proud and I am grateful and I am grateful that I have overcome my adderall addiction and have an opportunity to continue to carve out a future for myself adderall free. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LILTEX41 Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 Wow, BEAUTIFUL post Greg. You have given me so much inspiration for today. So grateful to have someone with the same amount of time!!! So proud of you!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassie Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 It's amazing what you've accomplished in only 4 years off Adderall. I agree with looking back on how ridiculous my thinking was on adderall. After a few years sober you realize life is long and nothing is permanent and on adderall (and newly sober) you just can't see the forest for the trees. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeHereNow Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 Greg thank you for so much inspiration-- both as my fellow quitter and in the 12 miles a week running club I'm so proud to know you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doge Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 Awesome to hear you are doing great. Honestly I am so happy to hear success stories because one of the biggest problems I have as a newbie (and I think others probably share my feelings on this) is that I literally have no faith.Thanks for being an awesome example! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idontcare Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 Whether or not we get better requires no faith. That's the beauty of science. The brain is plastic and our receptors will upregulate over time. The part where faith comes in is believing that we can get through the often slow and grueling process. Congratulations on getting this far. I've got a long way to go, I feel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searchingsoul9 Posted February 8, 2015 Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 GONGRAATSSSS!!!! Did you still continue to feel change after the 1st year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searchingsoul9 Posted February 8, 2015 Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 CONGRATSSSSSSSSSSSSS*** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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