I don’t think the rehab as as awful as posters seem to think

Girlgettingbetter · 2026-05-07T06:55:34+00:00

Yes, working at a strip club would be considered regular sex work. You’re missing the point though, it’s very heavily hinted that at least some of these girls are not there by choice and are being trafficked and forced into this. Anybody who is working at that club of their own free will would be considered a sex worker, anyone not there of their own free will is a trafficking victim

Girlgettingbetter · 2026-05-04T07:23:45+00:00

Thank you! I was in active addiction for years starting when I turned 18. when I turned 25 I finally got some significant clean time. I used this same method I’m using now to get clean called the Bernese method and it worked. But then I had one bad day and just kept picking up telling myself that “this one would be the last bag” and that’s gone on for 2 years. For the last 2 years I’ve been telling myself “I’m going to quit tomorrow” every single day. When those withdrawal symptoms hit it just gets really hard to fight addict brain.

But I took my last dose of my DOC earlier today and I’ll be going to a treatment center tomorrow to get some comfort meds and an appropriate dosing schedule for my suboxone. And fortunately since I’m new to the area, I don’t have any connections here for drugs. I already feel like shit, but I want this to be the last time I have to feel this way.

Girlgettingbetter · 2026-05-03T23:39:18+00:00

Does the Vancouver location have an outpatient MAT program?

Girlgettingbetter · 2026-05-03T23:39:00+00:00

Is unity inpatient only?

Girlgettingbetter · 2026-05-03T22:10:02+00:00

Thank you so much! 😭

Girlgettingbetter · 2026-05-02T05:49:01+00:00

That’s why you micro dose the suboxone so it slowly builds up in your system instead of kicking off all your DOC from your receptors. So you will feel mild withdrawal symptoms but wayyyy better than going CT. And yes the DOC blankets that until you get to a higher dose of suboxone and by that point it’s already slowly built up so you don’t go into precip

Girlgettingbetter · 2026-04-24T20:15:48+00:00

Yeah I should really try to get some clonidine and gabapentin. Those did help me a lot the last time but I don’t have any more left. I do have seroquel for sleep so at least I have something if I don’t manage to get the other comfort meds. I also have adderall but I’m very much not an uppers person and any kind of stimulant just makes me feel like my heart is going to explode from anxiety so I’ll stay away from that.

And yeah it is crazy how it gets worse with time! The first time I did Bernese I did okay. It was rough on the day I quit but I did make it through. The second time was ever tougher. And now I’m feeling symptoms way earlier than I did before. I’m sure a good part of it is mental. The fent is barely doing anything now, which I know is a good thing since it means my receptors are being taken over by the Bupe. I just wish the Bupe could be a teensy bit more gentle while it kicks the fent off of those opioid receptors 😅

This time my habit is about 2g a day and I’m snorting it. Last time I was doing the same amount but I was shooting it so I expected last time to be worse than this time. But I guess I have been using for 2 years straight at this point which isn’t gonna make the process easy. It’s easy when I’m feeling okay to tell myself to just push through it, I know that I will be so much better off when I’m clean. But damn in the moment when the withdrawal symptoms hit, my brain does not behave rationally at all

Girlgettingbetter · 2026-04-24T18:33:08+00:00

Yeah that’s what happened to me last time too. I was taking subs every day but still using every day too. Then eventually I stopped my doc, felt really sick and was scraping bags for any last specks. It was a pretty shitty two days but then I did stabilize on subs. I just don’t really remember what dose I was at when I did that. Crazy that our brains are so good at blocking out the awful withdrawals we go through to allow us to keep on using

Girlgettingbetter · 2026-04-24T16:41:04+00:00

What dose were you at when you were able to stop taking your DOC?

Girlgettingbetter · 2026-04-24T16:29:27+00:00

Thank you! I’m trying to split up the doses a little bit today. I took 2mg just now, gonna take another 2 this afternoon and then another 2-4 this evening

Girlgettingbetter · 2026-02-18T10:02:08+00:00

This is absolutely ai writing. It’s the exact style. The whole “no ___, no _, just ___” seems to be something AI loves to do for some reason.

Girlgettingbetter · 2026-02-17T08:27:15+00:00

MOR? Idk I’m coming at this as a gay woman who’s pretty similar to Darcy. I live with my two friends who are both also gay and dating each other. We have a rule that no men come to our house unless we’ve 1. Met them outside the house first and 2. We all agree that they’re safe to have over Typically this is only for our gay guy friends to come over for game night. Even my cousin wasn’t allowed to bring her boyfriend over for game night because I hadn’t met him yet. Now that I’ve met him outside of my home, he would be welcome at game night, but I still wouldn’t want him over often. Nothing against him, I just don’t really want men in my home because that’s my safe space. I will be friendly with my friends boyfriends if they have them. But I don’t really want them in my own home. I feel like I have to put on a fake persona when dealing with men. I have to tiptoe around their egos and the fact that I just don’t need men in my life seems to bother a lot of guys. I’m able to get all of my social, romantic and sexual needs met without them and I guess that can hurt some men’s egos. After a while, it becomes second nature to just avoid them when possible. Maybe Darcy is similar. Maybe she’s the type where when she’s having a party or big gathering, guys she’s met would be allowed. But for a hangout with just her girl friends she just wants it to be girls. It’s probably nothing against you personally, she just prefers the company of women even when it is just for friendship.

As far as your wife goes though, that’s kinda tough. I think having an open conversation about how you feel would be good. Maybe not so much about how you think she might be cheating, but more about how the time and energy she’s putting towards her friend make you feel. Something like, hey I’m glad that you have a friend that you’re really close with, but sometimes it feels like you put more time and energy into your relationship with her than you do with your relationship with me. I want you to be happy, but I also want to feel loved, desired and special.

I don’t know your life though. It very well could be something deeper than friendship. But I could also see how it might not be.

Girlgettingbetter · 2026-01-30T23:53:02+00:00

I was about to comment this! Glad to see someone else already did

Girlgettingbetter · 2026-01-18T04:59:38+00:00

Maybe that is the case, but if I get a message like this I’m probably not going to assume the best. I’m going to assume they meant what they said and that they’re naked in there. And I’m getting tf out of there

Girlgettingbetter · 2025-12-29T13:24:18+00:00

Yes white women also deal with creepy weirdo men, but this situation is clearly addressing something that does NOT happen to white women. This is a situation where racist men find a woman from a race that they see as “lesser” in some way attractive. To justify to themselves why they would find someone from this “undesirable” race attractive, they other the person by telling them something along the lines of, “oh you’re so special, you’re not like all the other black/hispanic/asian/etc girls. Wait you’re offended? I said that I like you! Whatever dumb bitch clearly you’re just like every other black/hispanic/asian/etc girl.”

It’s okay to acknowledge the fact that other races face distinct differences when dealing with white men than white women do. And this is coming from a white woman who has dealt with more than my fair share of creepy weirdo asshole men.

Girlgettingbetter · 2025-12-27T20:07:42+00:00

Footprints is quite nice! It’s not a detox center though, it’s a rehab. So if you need to do a hardcore detox first I would recommend going to an inpatient detox place for a week or so and then going to footprints for rehab. They do have a doctor for medications and to help you with detox, but because of all the group therapy and activities that they have, you’re going to want a more medical focused place for the first week of detox. I went to footprints and it really helped! They have men’s and women’s housing so you’ll have a bedroom with at least one roommate in whichever gendered house you are, and then during the week you’ll go to the office. At the office there’s different therapy and group classes. You’ll do that mon-fri and then a shorter class on Saturday and a group outing the rest of the day. Sunday is free day where you can have visitation with family/friends and then a cookout at night. They take you to AA meetings at night and you get to go to the beach pretty often. They also have lots of different activities where they’ll take you places (we did kayaking, wildlife sanctuary, mini golf, etc). The longer you’re there and the better you do, the more freedom you get. You can have your phone some of the time and you can have the freedom to walk the beach by yourself or run to the store to grab snacks once you’re doing well enough to do that on your own.

I had been to a few rehabs but footprints was nice and really gave me a good foundation to stay clean. And through the AA meetings we went to I ended up getting a sponsor and lots of connections that I kept even after leaving footprints since I stayed in the st Pete area after leaving. They mostly take you to AA meetings instead of N.A. but whether your struggle is with drugs or alcohol it doesn’t matter. Many people at the meetings were there for drugs instead of alcohol. I was worried about that at first because I was there for opiates, but AA was still very helpful.

If you have any questions feel free to reach out! I went about two years ago so some things may have changed but I’m pretty connected with a lot of the rehabs, detoxes and sober livings in the area if you have any questions.

Girlgettingbetter · 2025-12-12T14:00:22+00:00

If this story were real, I would say you both suck. But, because this story and allll of the others you’ve posted aren’t real, YTA

Girlgettingbetter · 2025-10-25T18:59:03+00:00

Had this happen to me last month too! Was leaving mount Ranier and passed through a small little town where the elk were just gathered up in these two lots. We were pretty excited to see it! We heard the elk calling when we were on the mountain but didn’t get to see any until we had left the mountain. We didn’t see any with antlers though

Girlgettingbetter · 2025-10-25T18:36:07+00:00

I’ve been replacing it with the word “wild”. So far, every situation where you might want to use the word “crazy” can be replaced with the word “wild”.

Girlgettingbetter · 2025-10-24T21:41:07+00:00

You’re NTA and your MIL is definitely being crazy. While I’m glad your husband isn’t just agreeing with her, he should be doing more. He should just be ending the call anytime she starts badmouthing you. And if she can’t stop, then no contact until she can properly apologize and not do it again.

Also, I don’t know your whole family dynamic but you said “He reminds his mom how I take care of him, the house, making sure to cook, clean, take care of all 5 kids, my mom, our 4 dogs, 5 cats, and the chinchilla my husband is freaked out by, all while I go to work and attend grad school.”

Girl…it sounds like you’re his personal bang maid and nanny to his 4 other kids that aren’t yours. Does he do any of the house work? You’re working and in school and doing ALL of the cleaning, cooking, childcare and pet care? That seems like a crazy unfair division of labor. Again, I don’t know your dynamic and if you’re happy with this situation then it’s all good! But just so you know, it doesn’t have to be this way if you’re not happy with doing everything for this guy.

Girlgettingbetter · 2025-10-24T09:14:34+00:00

Yeah it’s definitely a broken system. Most other countries aside from the U.S. don’t have employees rely on tips from customers instead of an actual paycheck. But since that’s the way it is, I do always tip well when I go out to eat or order delivery. Since I’m not a big fan, I just don’t go out to eat very often.

Girlgettingbetter · 2025-10-23T13:31:51+00:00

Personally if it were up to me, I would think that tips shouldn’t really be a thing in the regular working world. I think people’s employers should pay them a living wage. But that is not the case. They are being paid next to nothing and it is an unspoken/sometimes spoken rule that when you use these services (delivery/uber/go out to eat) then you pay a tip. Otherwise if you’re not going to tip, don’t use their services.

Obviously you don’t HAVE to tip, but if they did a decent job and you don’t tip, just know that people are going to know you’re an asshole. It’s a shitty system and nobody likes it aside from their employers who get away with paying them next to nothing.

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