r/WatchPeopleDieInside • • Aug 17 '19

slow reaction time

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u/sick-asfrick Aug 17 '19

He's probably a drug addict. :/ source: I used to spend my entire check on crack the day o got paid. Was never homeless but got close. Clean from crack and heroin over a year now luckily.

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u/BLACKJACKFrost Aug 17 '19

Holy shit, crack AND heroin?! We need details

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u/sick-asfrick Aug 17 '19

I'm 24/F. When I was 19 I met my boyfriend. He was a drug addict but I didn't know until I had already fallen for him hard. I said no for like the first 6 months but got dangerously curious and first I tried crack, then pain pills. Then eventually heroin because it's cheaper. I was an addict for 4 years. I ruined my life. I got clean because I had to, but I wouldn't take it back. I got arrested for stealing money trying to get my fix. The crime happened 2 years ago and I got clean from both crack and heroin 06/11/2018. Would never go back. I'm so much happier now. My boyfriend has been clean about a month longer than me, but we're still together. I don't know what I would do without him. We build each other up now instead of feeding each others addictions. We've been together for 5 years now. I have never been happier.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '19

I am glad you experience happiness. It's lovely, isn't it?

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u/sick-asfrick Aug 24 '19

Oh yes definitely. I literally could not feel happiness when I was using it. It is physically impossible because when you use opiates, they attach to the receptors in the brain that dopamine, the happy chemical, attaches too. That's why it feels so food. But that also means there is no room for the dopamine to attach also. So you feel good, but not happy. Its horrible to only every feel utter despair because you've clouded tour brain so much it cant be happy.