August 9th 2024
Haven’t been on this app in probably a year or more… idr what all happened after January of 2023 but I will say I started using again, mostly in the summer where I entered residential treatment for the 8th time in 5 years. I stayed from July to November and was given the choice to go back home or go to a TLP… being that it was around the holidays and most definitely just as an excuse, I wanted to go back home to be with family and “help” my mom. Such bullshit. Relapsed immediately and by the end of January 2024 I brought myself to the psychiatric unit at the hospital because my depression had got so bad. I even got high while I was in there. One day after getting released I was taken to jail for two months. It was extremely hard because as I said, I never wanted to go back… but before I got taken to jail I asked my probation officer about Drug court and while I sat (with the possibility of revocation, prison time if so…) in OCJ, she filled the paper work out and I got accepted in march. I am on an ATR(alternative to revocation) and if I fuck up, well imma just not fuck up. But I’m now almost 7 months clean (longest time of sobriety ever!!), working with a sponsor and doing the steps. Chairing and sharing at meetings. I stay at a women’s shelter and work a pretty lame paying job atm BUT I can absolutely 100% say I haven’t been happier then I am right now in my entire life. My confidence, which was never good, is getting better. I’m not on any psych meds which is crazy cause I’ve been on those since I was 12 and I’m now 30… I am on Vivitrol but it’s nothing like being on suboxone. I’m working on my relationships with my babies and things are just really good right now. I really have Drug court to thank for a lot of it. It holds me accountable and I hate to say it but I needed that. I’ll be in the program for at least another year and a half and I’m pretty okay with that. I got my Ls back in November for the first time ever. So I can drive without freaking out and idk. I feel like I’m growing up which is great cause the world doesn’t stop spinning for no one. I won’t lie and say there aren’t days that I don’t think about going back out for just one more time. Some days are harder than most which I’m grateful for the majority not being like that. Idk. People can change. Things DO get better. All it takes is consistency, determination, and ALWAYS getting back up after falling. I remember thinking being a dead beat drug addict was just who I was always gonna be and that my children would be better off without me in their lives. And now… I can’t imagine leaving them ❤️
*clean since 1/23/24🙏🏽













