Originally Posted by OccultHawk

This may be like a “duh” question or one you might not want to get into or would rather PM but were your addictions accompanied with really acute physical withdrawal?

Originally Posted by Psy-Fi

Careful with that bootstrapping talk. You're likely to offend some delicate sensibilities.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Preciate your candor @ plank

Originally Posted by Psy-Fi

Careful with that bootstrapping talk. You're likely to offend some delicate sensibilities.

Originally Posted by Trollheart

You sound like Buffy after they dragged her back from Heaven.

Originally Posted by WWWP

I want to open a school for MB's lost boys and teach them basic coping skills and build up their self esteem and strengthen their emotional intelligence and teach them about vegetables and institutionalized racism and sexism and then they'll all build a bronze statue of me in my honor and my bronzed titties will forever be groped by the grubby paws of you ****ing whiny pathetic white boys.

Originally Posted by Plankton

Lets play "Who went to the worst rehab!" lol no lets not.

I've been through quite a few, actually. The one you're describing sounds a lot like a few of the ones I went through, but they were all there to help if you wanted it. If you are willing to go to any length to get clean, it doesn't matter what it "feels" like or what you think people see you as. Who tf cares. Focusing on those 'perceived' negatives only diminishes the positives. I just wanted to straighten my life out, not make an impression on the people around me. You have to either be brave enough to have that mindset, or you have to be at the end of your rope. I was the latter.

I've been through homelessness, many years of drug addiction, many rehabilitation systems, jail, and prison. Things gradually changed for the better when I finally stopped playing the victim and started taking responsibility for my actions. Finding out why I wanted to self medicate was a big part of that process, and you can do that anywhere.

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Well done man! Give yourself a rock-out solo!

Originally Posted by Trollheart

What would they want you to Poupon though?

Originally Posted by jwb

it helped me to an extent but after a while the petty politics and blatant exploitation got to me and I said **** it

I held my tongue long enough. You try to show respect to the little bit of authority a guy has and he takes your kindness for a weakness. Hope he catches Covid tbh.