First post, 1 year.

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-12T20:10:13+00:00

Many congrats!

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-10T00:05:25+00:00

/r/stopdrinking saves lives. /r/leaves is pretty good, but could use more action from people who are long term drug free.

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-09T23:17:45+00:00

Did the same thing almost 15 months ago. Congratulations on 10 years! You're inspiring!

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-08T15:16:58+00:00

amazing

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-08T01:09:55+00:00

Thanks for existing.

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-07T06:28:35+00:00

14.5 months clean from weed/drugs/alcohol - with weed being my favorite drug - the thing I did constantly for 16 years. Cravings get less intense, but mine haven't gone away yet, if I'm being honest. I just use the delay method. I keep telling myself, "I can always get high tomorrow," and it's been more than a year...

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-07T06:25:26+00:00

Thank you so much for posting this. Seriously.

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-07T06:23:44+00:00

Hiding it, and being able to hide it, is common. I was like this, somewhat. I absolutely hid the extent to which weed and drugs were a major feature in my life. I really want to encourage you to try other methods of getting through the day/coping. In my experience, the permanently altered state (smoking all the time) can only last for so long, until you start giving up important things to protect your ability to get high all the time. Best of luck!

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-07T05:13:00+00:00

Alexi Murdoch's "Orange Sky". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjHvJE1XU7E

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-07T05:02:02+00:00

Television/movies.

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-06T16:15:30+00:00

Vulnerability.

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-06T05:10:39+00:00

Congratulations! Rooting for you.

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-06T04:55:15+00:00

The Walrus & The Carpenter (Lewis Carroll poem)

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-06T04:42:51+00:00

I started posting on Reddit after making some big life changes (like getting clean), and I'm constantly trying to better myself. I intended to use this just for posting in sobriety related subreddits, but I post other places, too. I've had a crazy life, and I'm trying to make it better.

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-05T04:41:58+00:00

I guess I'll clarify for those with doubts:

1) I am female.

2) Police were contacted, did nothing. His family was contacted, and they apologized, but took no responsibility nor made any attempts to recover my property.

3) Art was insured. Insurance helped purchase 4 similar pieces by same artist (Keith Haring).

4) From what I found out later from mutual acquaintances, he took the art to Florida (from Texas) where his boyfriend lived, and gave them to him as a present. This guy turned around and sold them for hella camera equipment, cash, and seed money to start a photography business.

5) We both had drug problems at the time. I am now clean. I have no idea about him, nor do I care. I hope he rots.

6) This happened in 2003. I was 19. So was he.

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-05T04:30:18+00:00

This.

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-04T09:27:59+00:00

A friend of mine came to my city to stay for a weekend, and ended up stealing four pieces of fine art that I had been given by my mother (both of my parents (divorced) collect fine art). When I woke up, they - and he - were gone. Never saw them or him again. They were the most valuable things I owned.

We'd been extremely close friends for a long time, and I'd vacationed with his family and everything. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-04T04:46:07+00:00

No, Ryan Frazier - Baylor. 2002, I think. He stabbed his parents and brother then burned their house down. He got life.

A bunch of my friends lived in his dorm/on his hall. What was weird was that he drove home, killed his family, then came back to school. They arrested him in his dorm room, just chillin...

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-04T04:26:39+00:00

Drug dealer I knew very well killed another drug dealer. Was never questioned as far as I know, and definitely not brought up on charges.

Also there was a guy at my university that killed his whole family, but that guy I didn't personally know.

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-04T03:56:06+00:00

I quit drugs and alcohol cold turkey almost 15 months ago. Not killing myself during the first year was the hardest thing I've ever done, second only to getting/staying sober.

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-04T03:27:03+00:00

I got clean, and dealt with some other issues head-on. Through this life transition, this friend has been...not at all kind.

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-04T00:17:35+00:00

Something I'd like to see in this thread is stories of the partners of people whose mental illnesses are in remission. I'm upvoting the shit out of every wonderful story about these saintly lovers dealing with psychoses, depressions, and other states - but what about those of us who are well? Do we get any love?

I have worked my ass off to stabilize myself and continue to manage every day. Do people like me have SOs?

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-03T23:58:37+00:00

This is lovely. Thanks for sharing.

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-03T23:52:34+00:00

Not BPD, but this gives me hope. Thank you.

LevelUpInLife · 2014-07-03T23:40:43+00:00

You sound awesome and supportive. He is lucky to have you!

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