Friend detoxing...?
He thinks his life is mundane and boring now, it's hard to be around, but I want to be supportive. What ideas do you have to help keep him busy (he's already putting in overtime at work and overdoes it on the house work), and what to say so as not to bring him down? He doesn't have many other friends than me that don't smoke! Thanks for the input!
Answer:
That's tough. Really tough. If you want to help, I'd suggest just finding something that he is passionate about (music, art, writing, biking, etc.) and encourage him to further get into whatever that may be. If it is something you can do with him, even better! If he's just sitting around bored and feeling sorry for himself, I'd worry that he'd want to just go right back to his old life because this one isn't all it's cracked up to be. Just stay supportive and let him know things aren't that bad, his life isn't boring and mundane (hopefully!).
Exercise and lots of water to help detox the system are important. Enjoying lots of good, healthy meals might be nice. He might want to consider finding a new hobby- a sport, arts, something physical like hiking.
Get him to go to a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. He will meet people just like him that can help him work through it. You can find a local meeting on their website:
http://portaltools.na.org/portaltools/me...
Good Luck!
http://www.whatwinnersdo.com is my personal addiction site. I have been making posts on this since very very early in my addiction recovery.
I went through all the same things as your friend, tons of people go through this same thing. There is really no easy way of dealing with it. You just need to keep your sobriety as your number one priority. After that comes everything else.
Sooner or later he will find that he is no bored all the time or stuck with trying to find something to fill his time with. These things will eventually come natural to him. In the mean time maybe he should start reading...I read tons of addiction books which gave me a lot of hope and just made me feel better.
Also, he could meet sober people if he went to NA meetings. When I was in early recovery I used to look forward to going to my meetings because I would be around sober people who would understand exactly what I was going through.
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