1 Year Sober!!!
Last April my wife found out about my 2.5 year addiction to Kratom/7OH. It was a “get sober or it’s over” kinda talk and luckily she after that talk, she jumped in the trenches with me every single day because I chose to go cold turkey detox.
I was using 850+mg of 7OH tabs. Just burning through money and being oblivious that I could have easily killed myself with the doses I was doing every day.
I won’t downplay it for anyone out there, the first month was nothing but withdrawal survival. Then months 2-6 were weekly therapy with an addiction specialist while making the conscious choice every day to remain sober.
Sometimes it was so hard, I had to watch the seconds tick by to help me feel the passing of time.
I needed to distract myself a lot and be extremely open to changing some massive behavioral patterns I had built.
I had forgotten how to live without thinking I needed a high.
I promise to everyone that is reading this, you can do it. And you need to be proud of however long you’ve been sober. It’s a brutal path but eventually, IT DOES GET EASIER.
When struggling, do something to naturally stimulate dopamine release and then focus on the second, minute, hour….