SUD posting? - Mander

Substance User Disorder (drug addiction, basically) is in the DSM. It has “atypical patterns of thought or behavior”. So talking about it fits here, right? What should go in c/drugs and what should go here?

Anyways, I’m making this post in part because I’ve been taking longer breaks from meth. Four days between the last time I used and now (I am currently high, it definitely potentiates my posting powers). Maybe I’ll actually commit next break. Oh yeah, and tapering benzos is going quite well. It’s been 7 weeks, and I’m down to close to a third of my original dosage. The taper schedules I’ve seen seem to show I should wait a while before lowering my dosage again. SMART and such have been great in terms of motivation, but a lot of the details have been DIY. Getting my GP or an actual doctor involved would be cool, but is also probably a terrible idea in practice (and I’ve been doing fine so far).

idk, I just don’t see much posting about it here, but then again it’s really only a handful of Hexbears that post about it in general. also, just posting for the heck of posting.

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