See, that is the kind of thing I wish I had heard from my (friends / partners) before everything came to a head like this. I don't care if anyone believes this but around six years ago I contracted tuberculosis somehow. For those of you who don't know, it's not some kind of disease you get from sharing needles, it's airborne. I was on a hard-core regimen of medication to get rid of it for eight months and the drugs were so toxic to my liver I was completely straight for eight months.
During that time, I started to enjoy not waking up with a headache or throwing up. So even after I got off my medication outside of smoking pot I stayed sober for probably another six months. That was up until I met my ex-girlfriend who was a complete alcoholic. I started drinking again and went for it pretty hard for the eight months or whatever we were together.
The difference between her and I were was: I worked for a living, but she would start pounding the Jaeger as soon as she woke up. One day I asked, "isn't it annoying when you go to bars and you haven't been drinking and everyone else's drunk?"
She said "yes"
Then I told her that's what she was making every day of my life like. She said she would chill out, but she never did so we broke up. By that point I was sick and tired of even being around alcohol.
While all that was going on, my business partners I Had been on a campaign telling everyone in the industry how much of an addict I was, even though at the time I was basically sober.
Once everything had gone down and I had nothing to do. I decided if they wanted to paint a picture of me as being some kind of alcoholic and drug addict, I might as well be an alcoholic and drug addict and that was the period of maybe a year you would see the erratic posts etc.
Fact is, I have two speeds I am either completely sober or I drink one beer and then I will keep drinking till I blackout.
Now, I realize that, so for the most part (outside of special occasions) I don't even drink. Now that I don't live in LA, I don't have quack doctors to prescribe me Xanax and I'm totally off of that as well.
The only thing I really do smoke pot. If that makes me an addict then guilty as charged.
