Entering rehab soon...really nervous..

[--Danny--]

Hi everyone, I've battled alcohol & marijuana addiction for last 16 yrs...binge drinking 3/4 times a week & for the last 8/9 years I have smoked weed daily..  well, I quit drinking alcohol 85/86 days ago.

But now I've made the decision to quit weed! Tomorrow morning I'm booked in for a 2 hour assessment at the drug & alcohol dependance center.. there they will book me into a drug rehab clinic for 7 days..hopefully I can quit this drug that has ruled my life for 8 years!! The usual waiting time is 2 or 3 weeks.. I'm really nervous about the whole thing.. this is definately going to be the biggest battle I've had in my life!! If I can overcome this then I can conquer anything put infront of me!! 

There is 2 pieces left in my life that I feel are contributing to anxiety & depression & all them awful things..that's my marijuana habit & my high pressure job..I'm looking at changing jobs in the new year & hopefully quit the weed for good!! At the end of all this, I'm hoping that beating my demons I can finally find my inner peace & escape the strange hold that is anxiety & depression!!

Wish me luck for a healhier & longer life!

Danny

[KAJ]

All the best Danny.

I hope the treatment is going well for you. 

🙂

[AGrace]

Hi Danny,

Firstly Congratulations on your Sobriety. What an incredible achievement!!

It's with the knowledge that you managed to get yourself not so dependent on alcohol, that I have faith you will also be able to give up the marijuana. You've shown such strength, determination, and resilience already, take these 3 qualities with you when you begin your rehab, and you'll do fine.

I wish you all the best, and look forward to some updates on your progress.

AGrace

[--Danny--]

Hi AGrace/KAJ, thank you so much for the kind words & positive support!! I still haven't drank in 90+ days & am feeling a lot better physically for it! I wasn't aware of how much damage alcohol did to my skin....as I've had quite a few people mention to me how much better my skin looks since drinking..my dates for the detox centre have been pushed back a month or so...I have cut back 1/3rd of what I was smoking since the day I met the drug counseller...I'm going to try & boot this habit by myself before the detox centre...I can't tell you how much I appreciate your support AGrace:-) I posted this thread like nearly 2 weeks ago & you're the only one who took the time out to show me some love!! Marijuana has got it's teeth trully stuck into me!! It's very hard to explain to you how hooked on the stuff I am...everyday without fail..just like a typical addict I spose...AGrace, can I turn to you for support as I try & fight this battle..I have no one else as I try not to put my marijuana problems on the rest of my family..

Let me know how you have been going.

Thank you once again 🙂

Danny

[Snoman]

Hey Danny,

Sorry you haven't had much response.  I have no experience with rehab, but I am impressed with your determination.  You sound like you have what it takes to beat it.

I like your plan of trying to beat it before the detox centre.  Is there some way we can help?  Dropping back already by 1/3 is huge.  I am wondering if there are certain activities or times when you smoke?  Those activities and times can be part of the addiction triggers.  Perhaps changing your routine would help?  Perhaps a target of waiting 1 minute after the initial craving, then slowly extending it out?

I don't know much about marijuana addiction, so my suggestions may be completely off.

Sno

[geoff]

dear Danny, I'm so sorry that I haven't picked up your post when you first posted it and feel as though I have let you down, but Amber found it and responded to it, so she is great in doing this, but please we want to join her in her replies back to you.

It's terrific that you have given up the alcohol as this can be difficult to do, but now you have problem of smoking weed, which I haven't smoked, but certainly had the problem of alcohol which now I can control.

It's such a difficult drug both of them to be able to give up, but your determination is so powerful which is the point here because now you have decided by yourself to stop both together, well not really, but in the general context, yes, even though you have stopped alcohol.

Weed is really an awful substance and for people to want to legalise it, I don't understand, however if it can be used for specific illness then that's good, but then there are people who take advantage of someone they know who uses it, but we aren't talking about that here, this is post is about you.

Danny you have replied to many people with the knowledge and experience of having had to try and cope with their depression, so that's very formidable from you and I would like to thank you for participating, but now it's your turn that's needs this return help.

My son had smoked weed when he was upset but more depressed, and it has taken a year or so for him to stop, and I'm talking about a few years ago, so it's now history, but you had to try and convince him if it was doing him any good, but in much more detail than this, so eventually it hit the spot that he wouldn't be able to achieve anything while he was smoking it, and he realised this, but it took a while for it to register, but now it's done this for you, so that's the most important step before you can do anything.

If you can cut down or stop before you go to rehab then that's brilliant, it then puts you on the starters block, knowing that you prepared to give up.

Danny again I'm sorry for not picking up your most important post, and we are all behind you every step of the way.

Please let us know how you are going, and remember if you can stop before you go then imagine what influence you can have on the rest of the people. Geoof.

[--Danny--]

Hi snoman! Thank you so much for replying to my thread!! I appreciate all your well wishes & all the advice!! I take it all onboard! There are certain times when I smoke more..that's mainly at night..& if I go to long without smoking I start feeling nauseas & sick & can't eat, sleep, nothing...really hard to quit because of the withdrawals I get. I keep active by lifting weights in the gym & cardio..plus I play sport in summer..

Thanks again for your support snoman!! 

Danny

[ausmock]

Hi Danny,

I have just come out of rehab.  I was not in there for drugs, but for depression etc.  I was in there for 3 weeks and all I can say is that it saved my life and saved the lives of the people that I got close to during my stay.  

Many people enter rehab thinking that they need to stop before hand.  This is not true, but it will help during the first week.  When I was there a guy had 3 bottles of red wine at the front door before he entered and then after that he has been sober for 90 odd days now.  

The main reason why I am reply say that you will survive, but you need to find out why you are taking the drugs.  I would say by reading your comments that 7 days in rehab is not long enough.  Please really consider going longer 

All the best

Ausmock

[--Danny--]

Hi Geoff, I replied to your post but for some reason BB declined it? Not sure why but it took me a long time & I put a lot of thought in it! I'm so appreciative of your support Geoff!! All your experience & knowledge is very helpful to a lot of people on BB! You're a very kind man! No need to apologize mate! Just wish me luck in my quest to quit!! Weed isn't doing much to me these days anyway...I barely can get stoned anymore...& it's costing an arm and a leg to buy it!! & it's so bloody frustrating trying to score the crap!! It's just the withdrawals that do my head in!! Anyway mate, enough of my dribble...how have u been buddy?? How's life treating ya buddy?

Take care,

Danny

[Cbk]

Just want to swish you all the best in rehab. I quit marijuana after a long addiction 15 years ago and know how insidious it is. Be gentle on yourself and find out as mich as you can on withdrawals. Knowledge is power and once I knew it took up to 3 months to leave my system and some of the withdrawal side effects it made it much more tolerable. I found a lot of support through Marijuana Anonymous meetings too, which I think are in most states and even on line, good luck!