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An Update

By: Quirk
Mood: Tired
Date: Oct 14, 2007
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My OCD has become a lot worse in the past two weeks or so; I don’t know whether or not this is any relation to me having stopped dope, but it seems so. Fifteen days- I hope you’re all proud of me J. It’s strange, but despite my initial hostility towards the NA meetings, I have grown to enjoy them. There is another man there with OCD, and we’ve talked a bit. The NA blurb mentions addiction as an obsessive-compulsive behaviour, and I believe that’s true. I have also decided that I was an addict years before I started smoking, if that makes any sense. There is a line from one of my favourite movies, Thumbsucker, which perfectly describes me: “I was born addicted to fantasy.” It was spoken by a recovering addict, and is so true. It seems that I saw everything, including what I now see as a drug addiction, as another chapter in my autobiography, as merely a story to keep myself entertained. I don’t know how much of my life is true any more, so tangled it is with my stories. Apparently my need to make up stories about my past is part of my OCD; I don’t know. I made a breakthrough recently when I ‘killed off’ my closest imaginary friend, or so I told my psychologist- he still haunts me. I cried for a week and subsequently made a pathetic attempt at suicide. It seems my attempts get more pathetic each time. More grounding, more therapy… I have realized I feed off these crises like a sick parasite. I am making a conscious decision to blog more, you shall be hearing from me soon. Excuse the lack of paragraphs.


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From: JC
October 15, 2007, 9:59 pm

Congratulations!  Yep--been there too but with tranquilizers and before that alcohol and w/o them the OCD gets worse.

You can do it! Hang in there!  I've been suffering with OCD

for 47 years--before they even had a name for it!  Keep posting! 

JC



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From: Mono1115
October 15, 2007, 6:22 am
Congrats on the clean time! OCD tends to get worse when you get clean because all those thoughts and feelings you were medicating with dope come crashing back (same thing for me when I'm off the booze).  Hang in there, and keep it up!

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From: nummie
October 14, 2007, 12:53 pm
im proud of you too !!! it is nice to know my friend is doing better in their life. just remember we are all pulling for you and willing to lend an ear whenever you need !!!

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