What is this fresh hell

People out here just rawdogging life in the early 20s. Good luck to them.
- "Drugs? No thanks. The high I get from the micro plastics is enough."
- I don't need drugs, I was shot as a child, and I have enough adrenaline from that for the rest of my life.
  
  I don’t need drugs. I’m on a steady diet of caffeine and nicotine and meth and life, thanks.
- Well hello mister privileged. Be happy you had such a nice life nothing pushed you towards drugs and please be more sympathetic to people who don't/didn't have/had that luxury.

I went from heroin to methadone, and methadone to nothing. It fucking SUCKS. I hate being around people. I used to be quite the social butterfly. I have hacked away at the people I let into my life down to one friend. I hate people so much that it’s hard to put up with my partner and kids. Loud noises make me irrationally angry. I don’t leave the house unless I HAVE to. Since I got sober I have dreams where I talk to my friends that died from overdoses.
I had a dream where a woman I knew that died of an overdose came to visit me. She sat on the sofa next to me and put her head on my shoulder. When I woke up I could still feel her hair on my face.
I hate being sober. I wish that weed didn’t make me anxious. I wish alcohol didn’t make me feel like shit. I didn’t like uppers before I got sober. Opiates aren’t even an option.
But you know what? As much as being sober fucking sucks, and it does suck make no mistake about it. I won’t die a slave. I am free. I am finally free, and I’m not giving my freedom away again for anyone or anything. I’ve been heroin free for about 5 years. I’m almost 2 years completely sober.
- Good on you. I'm just small league clean of cigarettes for a year now. It's good to be not dependent.
  Keep it up!
  
  Hey, quitting cigarettes is no small feat. There are enough things holding us back in life without adding to it. Quitting cigarettes is one choice I guarantee you won’t regret.
  Also, don’t sell yourself short. You say “little league clean”, but the process is the same. Be proud of your wins. There will be enough problems in life. Take those wins where you can.

Is that Daniel Craig?
- No that's Daniel Crying
- —Soviet dissident Daniel Craig is released from a Siberian gulag, c. 1950
- Perhaps going through airport security?
- I thought the same thing. I think it's the stare.
- Daniel Craig from AliExpress

James Bond looking rough
- The doctor told him a Vodka Martini a day is not a healthy diet.

To anyone going through this, it gets better. The first year is really tough, and maybe longer, but eventually you'll learn how to feel relaxed without it if you can stay off it long enough.
- You have to fill the gap with something else enjoyable/stimulating.
  Also, often people find they enjoy some of the activities they would be doing all along without the drugs,
  ie. Hanging out with friends, lying have passed out on a couch watching TV / playing video games / staring at the ceiling listening to music, sex, bumming cigarettes, hustling for money, going to dangerous places / doing dangerous things, committing small time crimes, alienating family, ect…
  You can enjoy all these things while sober… no need to be boring ;-)

Joking aside, getting sober sucks, but being sober is amazing.
It took me multiple tries and a lot of misery but I have over 6 years clean now and my life is immensely fulfilling and better than I thought it could be.
Anyone with a heroin/opiate addiction should check out the new injection Suboxone they have. Essentially a cure once you're ready to make the switch for good! And I was able to get off the shot with essentially no withdrawal at all - unlike the strips. Just saying, it saved my life!

The name is crisis - existential crisis.

Is it normal to feel this way without having a substance abuse issue? Asking for a friend.

This is shitty
- Well .. yeah. It can be reality in a lot of cases.
  I am not knocking you or anything, and I don't like getting serious in a meme community, but anyone that has worked through an addiction knows what is going on here. My life was absolute hell for at least 6 months or so after I quit drinking. It took a year after that to just get my ass back in gear. (I don't count days, so I really don't know how long I haven't been drinking, TBH.)
  So yeah. It's shitty. However, it's a dark truth with some dark humor. I get it.
  Edit: I just remembered the reason why I don't count sobriety days: It keeps me firmly planted in the here and now. For me, all I can do is not drink today and that is all that really matters. Many people may disagree with my methodology, but it's my own way to cope and it has been working so far.
  
  I just feel like it's more anti-sobriety than dark humor. I don't know anyone who regrets getting sober
  
  Yeah, cut meth coke and crack in one fell swoop. I'd say 3 weeks of pure agony, and 7 months of picking up the pieces of my life, another 3 years gluing them all together again.
  
  It has been 3 years mostly sober for me. I say mostly because I slip up about twice a year because of how fucking bad it gets between addiction and depression. The six month mark is about when it gets nearly unbearable for me and this damn disease won't let me stop thinking about it.
  
  I wish you luck with it. I know people that have gone through this and it's not easy. I think we're all addicted to something - food, sex, chocolate, TV, the internet, you name it. That's kind of how our brains are wired up.
  Taking it one day at a time is the only realistic approach, but I hope that you are increasingly successful in getting where you want to be.
  
  Does Daniel Craig have a history of substance abuse and getting sober?
  I’m confused because of the picture. Why not use a stock image or, if you want a celebrity, Charlie Sheen comes to mind.

Sounds like an onion article.

I feel spotted

Hey, stop making fun of me!

Meanwhile, gay people say the gayest thing you can do is let your sexuality determine how you carry your shopping

Please stop deleting comments.
- What are you talking about?
  
  A whole comment tree has been deleted. I got the message that someone replied, even see who and what in that message. But everything is deleted here. It is not there anymore.

- I mean I don’t see how people who are otherwise healthy and whole need to inebriate themselves to “feel good.”
  addiction
  If they only knew how much worse things could be!
  addiction sucks pretty bad
  Yet I don’t have any desire to enable an addiction syndrome in myself, I can find happiness in just having another day to spend being alive.
  oh good for you
  
  Thanks, it IS good for me. I have more money than most wealthy people in my area, so it is a nice feeling to be able to get up and do whatever I feel like every day. Your reactions are not really anything I care very much about.
- This comment has some real "have you tried NOT being addicted?" energy.
- "I don't really get.." exactly. So maybe don't comment.
  
  Well maybe don't be a total cunt your whole life, for a change. See, I can make useful comments when I feel like it.
- Looks like you failed your empathy check
- hedonism makes just enough sense
  
  Hedonism is vastly underrated and gets poor press. I say the three most important words in life are, "I've got mine."
- Think of it as an illness, not a perfectly rational decision. You don't think "why did that person choose to get a cold". Or the way people "choose" to be gay.
  
  I chose to be gay, and it's been the best decision I could have made. Although my early experiences were hetero only, but now I know better what I'm all about - yes a choice was made, and I keep telling people that choice is a BIG part of deciding what your orientation will be.
  Anyway it's been a huge blessing for me, a reason I get up feeling happy and looking forward to another wonderful day.
- Here then is the true nature of "Christian" fellowship. Your words say all that needs to be said about how depraved humankind has become. You are a sterling example of maggot-infested dog excrement, which is about what I'd expect from one of your ilk. Happy holidays!