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Get Busy Livin' or Get Busy Dyin'

answered 03:12 PM EST, Wed April 10, 2013

-- filed under: Meth Addiction | Meth Addiction Treatment | Recovery

anonymous

What do you do when the idea of giving up your whole life is to painful tp even imagine even when your life is pretty messed up from a lot of meth. I try to get clean but my friends always set me back. But I love them and I cant imagine living without the people I love. Especially my true love. I want to stop and so does she but we never can but neither one of us will ever live without each other.

Jim LaPierre Says...

J. LaPierre

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My heart goes out to you. You feel stuck and like you're in a no win situation. You're not. I get it - you love her, love your friends, and hate meth but can't get away from it - it drags you back down.

Here's the thing - people who do meth for a long time...what happens to them?

No, really - what happens to them. They suffer, they get sick, they continue to use, and they die.

The "rule of threes" applies here - when an addict or alcoholic continues in addiction there are only three possible outcomes:-

- Jail

- Institution

- Death

There are no exceptions - if you haven't hit those, then you haven't hit them YET.

This is not me scaring or shaming you. This is the truth and it sucks.

Stephen King said it - sooner or later you either "Get busy living or get busy dying."

Choose life. It may seem romantic to you but shit, Romeo & Juliet were romantic and look what happened to those crazy kids.

Get Busy Livin' or Get Busy Dyin'

Jim LaPierre Says...

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