A Candy Kid’s Addiction Recovery Story

A Candy Kid’s Addiction Recovery Story

I must say I am glad to be in recovery from E. I was the definition of a candy kid… going to all the rave parties and partying my nuts off… I had the drugs, the women and the connections to all the parties and anything else.

I was totally lost in ecstasy… If you are reading this, you know what I mean. The first time I did it, right away I knew I was going to do this again.

So I did in fact do it again… and again… and I had a blast for a while.

Then I started to notice something, almost like an out of body experience, looking at myself from a distance while I was high. I wasn’t happy. I was selling my furniture to buy E. I had thoughts about suicide… and you know that moment in the middle of a party when your buzz starts to go down…The rest of the night is all about finding the next pill

When I graduated from college, it was like a forced rehab. I was no longer the king of fraternity parties on campus and raves of Never Neverland… I was marooned on the island of sobriety far away… and I didn’t like it at first.

But I wasn’t looking at the good side of sobriety like I had looked at (the good side?) of ecstasy. As time passed… I was dealing with burnout syndrome…your typical candy kid flameout. I got fired from my first job because I didn’t have good “listening skills”. The reality was I got fired because my brain was damaged and it took a few years for it to rewire itself.

Now I have sharp listening skills. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke and I’m not a philanderer anymore. I enjoy hanging out with others in recovery and today I am bearing the fruits of a new way of life.

It feels good to let go of something that took over my life for nearly a decade. If you are suffering from the disease of addiction, I hope you give recovery a chance. Sobriety will fill your life with peace and serenity and change the way you see the world.