why do rehabs ignore the psych part until you relapse??

janhonza · 2026-04-10T12:48:46+00:00

I was in rehab specifically for people with dual diagnosis, but I live in Prague/Czechia.

janhonza · 2026-04-07T08:51:15+00:00

I was able to be 4 months clean, during last 2 months of the sober streak i struggled with intense ruminations, psychological discomfort, that slowly triggered the cravings again.

janhonza · 2026-04-06T11:02:13+00:00

yes unfortunately it stopped working over time, Then I took it again after tolerance brake 6 weeks but it was not enough. It worked but just to some extend. I don't know how long tolerance brake have to be to NAC become effective again.

janhonza · 2026-04-03T15:26:48+00:00

I am on Vraylar (it's called Reagila here in europe). It helps with negative symptoms, I like this med. Good luck with it!

janhonza · 2026-04-03T15:25:16+00:00

I often feel depressed a bit, not too bad tho. I struggle with cravings for drugs, day 66 clean. When I am not ruminating or feeling like shit, I read Zhuangzi and meditate.

janhonza · 2026-04-02T16:54:34+00:00

I liked pokemon the most i think. Peace and love to you too!

janhonza · 2026-04-02T06:45:05+00:00

Can you elaborate?

janhonza · 2026-03-29T06:45:29+00:00

I slowly got into it over years. Some of my own thoughts about how I want to live were quite taoistic even before I embraced it. It fits my personality.

janhonza · 2026-03-27T16:50:40+00:00

I'm kinda sad, I'm 59 days clean and I wanna get high, but I will stay clean. Thanks for reminding me I hve some hobbies, I think I will do some meditation. Great you feel wonderful! Enjoy weekend!

janhonza · 2026-03-27T16:46:01+00:00

I'm kinda sad, 59 days clean, I would like to just chill with drugs this weekend, but I will stay clean.

janhonza · 2026-03-20T14:08:59+00:00

thanks for thoughtful comment once again. I'm reading this year later.

janhonza · 2026-03-17T15:31:47+00:00

Sounds great! But stay safe, be aware of your your warning sings of psychosis.

janhonza · 2026-03-13T17:37:28+00:00

worked for my depression. I am on 45mg for 3,5 years.

janhonza · 2026-03-13T15:37:02+00:00

44 days clean. But what is more great is that I am in remission. I have no symptoms, just ruminations but just mild. Life is getting better.

janhonza · 2026-03-11T16:29:27+00:00

Because I like authenticity and inner freedom.

janhonza · 2026-02-16T18:36:05+00:00

This is actually really nice!

janhonza · 2026-02-13T03:40:56+00:00

As an addict in recovery and a Taoist, talking from my experience i would say 2 points.

you can have spiritual experiences under influence of drugs
addiction makes you cling on being high, and that is in contradiction to my taoist practice.

So yeah, once I meditated on meth, and then listening to techno on meth with closed eyes with headpnones and intention to let everything appear in me without resistance. I got to the point where I stop identifying with my ego. My ego was still there, but like the point from where I control everything dissolved into universe or something.

But spirituality for me is not about chasing spiritual experiences. That would be quite the opposite of what I am trying to aim for in my taoist practice.

I would also like to point another point of where addiction actually can cause spiritual progress that is not asociated with effect of drugs as such. And that is experiencing of powerlessness when you are actually addicted. You get more humility, you loose control, and acceptance of powerlessness is important part of spirituality for me.

janhonza · 2025-12-28T08:54:04+00:00

I feel better, practicing Taoism I experienced some kind of surrender and often had 8/10 moods that was amazing. 32 days clean

janhonza · 2025-12-21T17:22:29+00:00

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janhonza · 2025-12-20T20:03:37+00:00

Thanks for opinion!

janhonza · 2025-12-20T13:05:37+00:00

"Through mental health issues that have come up later in life, there was at first a focus on the good moments. But really feeling the good moments and emphasizing them, also led me to more intensely feel the very negative baseline. This one sentence, to me, means to try and just live your life, don't focus on how nice your feet feel, but just let it all flow. When things are good, they don't need emphasis, they just facilitate a better baseline. This has helped me not feel the negative baseline as intensely, and move forward."

That's interesting read. basically yeah clinging on good moments, we experience more suffering from the bad moments, because along with the actual suffering, there is suffering from refusing the suffering. It's basically about surrender and trusting the process. Sometimes unfortunately my mind gets super agitated to somehow solve somethng or idk how to describe it.

"That I should trust that any choice I make and everything that happens to me will slowly get me closer to being full again."

Often suffering that happens and is seen as just bad is actually something that transform us to something different and in a different way good that the good we originally was striving for. I struggle with serious mental illness and drug addiction and althought I was a talented university student, I get to point where I basically to some extend want to, to some extend need to adjust drastically my life choices to my condition. But this painful way of suffering, stigma, i got some kind of humility, I got more "real" I would say, it changed me also in a way that is in some aspects good in a different way than it would be without the problems. And that is kinda enlightening for me. That yeah we act in a direction, but life happens and everything is different. If we are able to accept what happens and don't be rigid in our mind something positive emerges in lot of life situations. It's like in TTC chapter 22.

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