At around 21 days of clean time off all mind altering psychoactive drugs your brain resets and you begin to have control over your actions and the cravings will go and the obsessions will die down.
I’ve seen many people get sobriety and with a month of clean healthy living they get that spark back in life and hindsight in addiction is powerful, you really cannot see how incredibly ill you are when you’re a hopeless drug addict. Alcoholism is a dark place and is no way to live, feelings of wanting to escape and commit suicide are common. The escape is to not drink and you will begin to see the drugs create the darkness.
If you have got back on the substances again I must stress the importance of abstinence, by using you create craving and cravings make you lose control of yourself, you lose the power of choice whether or when you will stop. Drinking or using solves absolutely nothing in life, though in addiction it solves one thing, momentarily it relives the problem which is the addicts mind, drugs are the solution and the mind is the problem. For years I used when it wasn’t doing anything and I wondered why? I was just feeding a craving.
I hope you’re well and sober Chrispy.
