And I'm telling you that herion addiction has a proven physical component.
You have depleted, quite literally killed off from oversaturation, certain neruoreceptor sites in your brain, and grown new ones of a different type from under-stimulation.
If you have been using for ~3 years or less its going to take you about 5 months of sobriety before the physical receptor sites in your nervous system have recovered from this.
in the interim its not pleasant. Your body is over sensitive to negative stimuli and undersensitive to positive ones as your receptors grow back.
Its really only after this period that stuff like CBT is truly effective for recovery.
The scary part is, relapses can start this process over so its important to stick through it.
I should know. It's mental. It's a fight you struggle with everyday.
And I'm telling you that herion addiction has a proven physical component.
You have depleted, quite literally killed off from oversaturation, certain neruoreceptor sites in your brain, and grown new ones of a different type from under-stimulation.
If you have been using for ~3 years or less its going to take you about 5 months of sobriety before the physical receptor sites in your nervous system have recovered from this.
in the interim its not pleasant. Your body is over sensitive to negative stimuli and undersensitive to positive ones as your receptors grow back.
Its really only after this period that stuff like CBT is truly effective for recovery.
The scary part is, relapses can start this process over so its important to stick through it.