Coming Down to Finding Your Way Up

Need help? Call our 24/7 helpline. 844-844-1491

By ktlynhagan 05/21/19

“What’s it like to come down?”⁣ she asked.

⁣I didn’t think I could truly articulate it with words, probably a face or a sound would suffice. Last night though, this came out, and I eerily surprised myself. It was as if the response was on deck in an incubator file stored in the back of my throat just waiting for the prompt.

“You’re under water but you can breathe, it’s dark but you can see, and there’s a door but you can’t reach," I said.

⁣For some reason these words actually sound rather poetic and pretty strung together, but they aren’t meant to in the least— it’s the scariest thing for any person wired like this. ⁣

Every time I came down, like really came down, enough to be level headed for a couple days-- I vowed to myself that I would never do that again. That I never wanted to feel that way again. That I was done. It was not even days later, sometimes hours later that I would forget that profound promise I made and pick up what so quickly caused so much pain.

The morning I woke up from the last time I used I had graduated from being under water in the darkness in front of a door to being a lab rat pacing around a 400 ft studio above a garage. I did not know it then, that it would be in fact the last time I used, but I proceeded to come down for the last time.

I asked for help, and I decided to come up.

****************
Join the conversation, become a Fix blogger. Share your experience, strength, and hope, or sound off on the issues affecting the addiction/recovery community. Create your account and start writing: https://www.thefix.com/add-community-content.

Categories:

Alcoholism and Addiction

ktlynhagan

Will My Insurance Pay for Rehab?

See If Your Insurance Pays For Rehab

Sponsored DISCLAIMER: This is a paid advertisement for California Behavioral Health, LLC, a CA licensed substance abuse treatment provider and not a service provided by The Fix. Calls to this number are answered by CBH, free and without obligation to the consumer. No one who answers the call receives a fee based upon the consumer’s choice to enter treatment. For additional info on other treatment providers and options visit www.samhsa.gov.

Any Questions? Call Now To Speak to a Rehab Specialist

(844) 844-1491

CALL NOW EMAIL NOW

Video: What Is Suboxone?

Questions about Suboxone are some of the most frequent search terms that bring people to The Fix....

AA Cults I Have Known

A couple of years ago I went to the Atlantic Group in New York. It was springtime, and the moneyed...

How Fentanyl Hysteria Leads to Harmful and Ineffective Drug Laws

My only experience with fentanyl was when I was pregnant. I was on a hospital bed writhing in agony...

Comment Section in a Recovery Magazine—A Love Poem

. . . . . . . . . And that’s how I got better. End of piece. End of piece is a pseudonym for...

Remembering Audrey Kishline, the Founder of Moderation Management

On December 19th, 2014, a 59-year-old woman almost nobody had ever heard of named Audrey Conn died...

Sponsored adThis sponsor paid to have this advertisement placed in this section.

Newport Academy

California Drug Rehab Center Review Fifteen miles northeast of downtown Newport Beach, amid...

Sponsored adThis sponsor paid to have this advertisement placed in this section.

Oceanside Malibu

“Fall asleep to the waves at night.” This is what you can look forward to at Oceanside Malibu...

Sponsored adThis sponsor paid to have this advertisement placed in this section.

Waismann Method® Rapid Detox Center

Waismann Method® Opioid Treatment Specialists have been providing rapid detox since 1998. Although...

Search form

Coming Down to Finding Your Way Up