Finding happiness after addiction
You can't understand this post if you've not had a drug addiction. I'm lucky enough to be in a great RX group, but for the past 3 years I've just felt horrible. I used to be addicted to drugs in college like a severe alcohol addiction and MDMA, though I've never had heroin.
The feelings I've had while super high surpass anything that any natural event could ever hope to provide. It's hard to explain, but someone else once told me to imagine it like every moment of happiness being like a flash of light or a candle light. Then these drugs are like staring into the sun. You get blinded and now nothing will work. I've felt like a droid ever since I started. Have tried therapy and medication but have given up. I do find my work very interesting, and the only joy I get now I by being the best at my job I can be. Even broke up with my college GF as I did not find it interesting anymore. Anybody else like this? Please don't just say "get help" or therapy or some this like that. I tried.
I feel like nothing short of deleting my memory would help.
Yeah I'm gonna teach you something, you can't be addicted to MDMA. You just fried your dopamine/serotonin receptors, and they take a long time to regrow (understand: a decade at least). Look into LSD/shrooms, they may help to create new connections in your brain.
You came to the right place. A bunch of aspiring financiers is the perfect focus group for qualified guidance in overcoming addiction.
Now watch me sink this putt.
Never happened.
What's with you and the 'Never happened' train?
Not all hero’s wear capes.
Plan out some 6 month 1 year and 5 year goals. Write down everything you want in life. Start lifting and exercising regularly. Baby steps, you got this.
Challenge and push yourself daily. I would recommend MMA (Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai) and Triathlon. HIIT and Endurance sports will flood your brain with positive chemicals.
Agreed. Start running and/or triathlon. Recently read Ultraman by Rich Roll, where he discusses his alcoholism and subsequent recovery. Even if you tried therapy, I would suggest trying a different approach or psychologist/psychiatrist, specifically one who has a track record of treating addiction and creating lasting recovery.
Isaiah is right. I've done coke, mdma, and alcohol. More than most people in this forum. You have to have another outlet for your dopamine. Long Slow Distance cardio is one great way to reroute your brain receptors. I played D1 sports while in college, and that was a huge help in keeping a good path. I'll never been an addict because other interests have given me a greater "high" than drugs. Drugs get boring after a while.
I think I'll find a chemical dependency message board, make an account, then kick off my new membership with this bit. Folks who are aspiring chemical dependency professionals should have qualified experience guiding a young aspiring investment banker.
Hello all, I work in IT but my undergrad is in History from an online University less than 50 years old, paradoxical I know but hear me out before you berate me with insults. I work down the hall, and three floors down from the deal team of my firm and I was wondering how hard it would be to make the transition from IT with a degree in History from a paradoxically youthful university to investment banking. The IB Analyst I spoke with mentioned that I should earn my CFA designation, while the Managing Director gasped when he heard me repeat what the IB Analyst had told me and said that the only reason why anyone would say such a thing would be to befuddle the truth. The MD said that the CFA is the poor man’s MBA and it will never get you serious consideration from clients. With this knowledge in hand, I returned to the IB analyst to challenge him on his assertion that the CFA was indeed superior and you know, he told me that the most important thing to remember is that the only reason why universities created the MBA is so that people with more money than brains could have a credential as well. With that as a backdrop and keeping in mind that while I can probably attain an offer from a Tier 1 B school while only attaining funding for a Tier 2 out of state school, which is my best route to take if my career objective is to become a successful investment banker?
Never Happened
you're seeking fulfillment from external things, have you worked on yourself?
johann hari had one of the best takes on addiction (only ever been addicted to tobacco but have known a handful who've died from heroin/fentanyl and alcoholism), basically that drugs allow you to numb the life you're currently living because it's misery/unpleasant. so rather than treating the addiction, let's remove the reason you want to be numb in the first place.
look inward
I'll tell you now its a constant battle, but its one worth fighting. I quit drinking for 18 months while still going out with my friends and it was always super difficult. They key is to find your dopamine elsewhere and keep yourself busy with other fufilling things. For me, this involves things like going 60mph on my skis to get that adrenaline/dopamine rush I'm always craving. Find ways to push yourself and try new things you always found interesting. Unlike college, you're sitting here with a god job and now have the means to do more activities than you could have imagined before, invest some of that money in making yourself happy. Good luck man and don't give up the good fight!
when I first got interested in IB, I thought RX group meant a group for medicine.
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