Help encourage a drug addict CAF'r

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Wrong post, excuse me! I had the answer to another thread still open when switching the tabs. I deleted it.
 
Hey spy, can you check in just so we know you’re okay? You don’t need to provide a full update or anything (although that would be great) but just let us know you’re alright.
 
That’s fantastic. You just have to get through this day for now.

I really hope you have a support person or group there who you are turning to. A sponsor. A counselor. Meetings to attend. That sort of thing.
 
Michael. Do a couple of rosaries if you can. Your namesake, St. Michael is a powerful Angel.

Blessings,
 
I was so relieved to hear that you are still fighting! I am praying for you my brother.
 
Praying for you Spyridon. I know you have been giving it your all to beat the addiction, do not let today tomorrow, or the next, be the day you ruin your clean streak which you have worked so hard on. Best wishes!
 
Spyridon said:
I’m not sure what you mean by that, but being prescribed methadone is not equivalent to usage.

MAT - Medication Assisted Therapy - is the gold standard in treating opioid addiction.
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These thoughts might not be for you, but they helped me when I gave up smoking. Nicotine patches were available, but in my mind I would become just as dependant on the patches. It felt as if I was not mentally strong enough on my own to give up. When I eventually gave up on a Sunday, I had a relapse a couple of days later, and had my final smoke on the Wednesday, thirty seven years ago.

When I had given up for a few days, I developed a fear of cigarettes, I knew if I had just one drag, I would be back to smoking full time. I knew that cigarettes are stronger than I am. The analogy that worked for me is this, I would not stick my hand in a fire to pick up a burning coal. I have had this same fear of smoking, even though there were times even twenty years later, when I fancied a smoke.

The other emotion that helped me was anger. I was angry that a white stick should control my life, I never wanted to smoke in the first place. When I gave up, my life was in a mess, and things were out of my control. I felt the only way to get a little control back in my life was to give up smoking.

Fear and anger helped me, you also have prayers which I did not have at the time.

blessings
Eric
 
I am so grateful to all of you on CAF for your prayers and kind words.

I have grown TREMENDOUSLY in my spirituality in just these past 2 weeks, and I feel my CAFamily played a large part in it.

So many prayers ascended to heaven and God received them as sweet incense, allowed the devil to tempt me and me to fall to that, then brought me back to repentance and raised me to a higher spiritual level than I was on before.

God is glorious in his Saints, glorious in all his ways, all his ways are mercy and truth, and his goodness knows no limits.

St. Spyridon, pray for me
CAFamily, pray for me
 
Absolutely, look at my thread history and I gave an update a few weeks ago.
 
I actually think it’s an incredible painting. I immediately was moved by it.
 
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