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All that being said, it's certainly not the ONLY way to detox, and as many people as I might know who have had a high level of success with it; I know at least that many who have kicked dope without it.
However you got here, you are in a weird space. It's gonna last for a while, anywhere from 6 to about 12 months, before everything starts firing at anything approaching a "normal" level again. And, well, it's extremely easy to pick up dope and get right back on the rollercoaster ride.
So the primary question is: what gets you through this space of time, and allows you to move forward to some other way of living...
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In the past I might have said that some sort of connection to spirituality, God, your higher power, whatever you want to call, will do that for you - and it certainly can. I personally, absolutely do believe in my own conception of God.
I could easily write 20,000 words on this topic and just be getting started. But I don't have that kind of space right here, and the reality is: it doesn't matter that much, because EVERYTHING can be distilled down to exactly ONE word: belief.
You MUST believe in something. What you choose to believe in, is almost completely irrelevant. It can be your higher power, it can be your own ability to to surmount the obstacles you will face, and make it through to
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something else; it can be almost anything. However, without this belief... You're not gonna make it.
What you need to do is as simple or complex as you choose to make it. You need to change your definition of who and what you are; to rewrite your own mythology.
How long does all this take? It can take months, years, a lifetime... It's as simple or difficult as you choose to make it. Having spent many years living in a really negative headspace, you're probably gonna make it extremely hard on yourself. It doesn't have to be. It takes exactly the amount of time that you need to stop defining yourself as a junkie, and begin believing you are something else.
It is that simple...
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