Category: General
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I Got My 5 Years — Then Accidentally Overdosed
Don’t Worry — I Still Have My Clean Time (A lesson on Essential Vitamins) Five years sober.No alcohol. No drugs. And somehow… I still managed to “overdose.” Now this sounds very dramatic. I still have my clean time. It wasn’t an overdose as what probably comes to mind when you hear that. It was an…
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It’s Been 5 (Long) Years!
I Didn’t Think I Would Survive — But I Did I didn’t hit rock bottom the way people think. There wasn’t just one moment.It was a series of them—stacked so close together that I stopped believing I was going to make it out at all. At one point, I truly believed I was going to…
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Addiction by the Numbers: What We Need to Talk About More
Content Warning: This post discusses addiction, substance use, overdose, and related health impacts. Please read with care. 💜 Introduction Considering I am almost to my 5 years since my last drink, illegal/abusing pills, or illegal drugs (and longer since alcohol, which was my DOC) is coming up in the next week, I wanted to dig…
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The Reality of Triggers
I Thought I Was “Past It” — Until I Wasn’t We have been talking about triggers a lot over the last few weeks, but we haven’t really talked about what that actually means. When people hear the word trigger, they often picture something dramatic.A panic attack. A breakdown. A visible reaction that makes it obvious…
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