Comments by "Ida Larsen" (@idalarsen2540) on "College Athlete Loses Everything and Becomes Addicted to Drugs (4 of 5)" video.

  1. Good job! Finally clean as well, working, taking care of my two pets and have a good place to live. I still smoke weed and I'm on medications, but going from being homeless for years, shooting up heroin, amphetamine, taking all kinds of pills, coke, acid, ketamine etc., a lil' weed to be able to sleep + buprenorphine to prevent me from using heroin as well as oxazepam for anxiety and PTSD is no biggie! If that's what I need to stay sober, so be it. I know I'm proud of myself. I've OD'd several times, one time I died; my heart stopped and needed serious interventions for a long time after just to be able to breathe again on my own. So I'm very lucky to be alive! I can't think of anything more difficult than fighting to become sober, and I've been through a lot. Homelessness, even in the middle of norwegian winters is nothing compared to getting and staying sober. It's incredibly difficult and in no way as easy as so many people make it out to be. You can't just quit as so many people claim. Just quitting cold turkey can be fatal, depending on what you're addicted to. The most dangerous time for any addict is while you're getting clean, because if you relapse your body can't take it as well as it used to. The first few weeks of recovery is when the risk of overdose is at it's peak. Congratulations to all of you here who's been through the struggle and has managed to kick addiction in it's butt! You all deserve so much credit and I'm proud of you! Keep going! 🤘❤
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  2.  @achillestitan989 Absolutely correct, but.. how was it unsympathetic?
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  3. Absolutely. That's just not how our minds work when we're addicted and/or homeless. It may seem illogical, but to those of us who's been through that know that it doesn't work like that. It's really hard. We may know deep inside that out thinking isn't logical, but we usually feel too trapped and scared. This is extremely complex. Just like many people say that if you're hungry enough, you'll get motivated to find a job. Not true. When you're too hungry, you only get desperate and your body stops functioning, leaving you severly demotivated. You just can't think clearly. Same thing goes with addiction and/or homelessness.
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