Had a drug overdose and respiratory arrest – are my feelings normal?
Hello.
I am 19 years old and survived a severe drug overdose about 3 years ago.
I had consumed amphetamine (speed) with adulterated methamphetamine (crystal meth), or rather, had a very severe overdose, and as a result suffered two severe seizures (status epilepticus) with respiratory arrest.
My father had to resuscitate me back then.
I've been clean for 2.5 – 3 years now and am working on my mental health.
I play the piano and edit music every day, which helps me, but I wonder if it's normal to have such a strong emotional reaction to those experiences when looking back on those times?
If I hadn't gone downstairs earlier and stayed in my room, I would probably be dead by now.
This knowledge is really killing me. Is it normal
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Hello,
evaluating the whole and/or diagnoses here will not be possible.
What you describe is a PTBS (post-traumatic stress disorder).
Regardless of what it might call itself: if it strains you strongly and you feel that you can’t process this experience yourself or do it yourself. the thoughts of you overwhelmed again and again – use help!
You could first look into a consultancy and/or find yourself a:n psychotherapist:in.
That doesn’t mean you have to go to therapy for years. But let yourself be “simplified” by specialists.
It always comes to your own suffering pressure – and it seems to be present with you.
One more short info to me: I belong to a team of professional social workers who are on the net in search. We try to support and advise users, in particular on addiction and consumption. Our offer is of course free and anonymous.
If you want to share more or have questions, please contact me!
Best regards
Hannah from the DigiStreet team of drug help Schwaben gGmbH
Well, actually not so normal.
I had at least 3 overdozis (heroin, heroin/cocaine and ketamine, strangely always after a pitch in the neck🤔). But especially I don’t do it.
A buddy of mine, who is now actually R.I.P., has been waking up in my tub after we introduced him, blue lips, cramping, and completely wet, asked me immediately why we screwed him up the turn.
But if you feel the way you feel, it’s okay.
Well, not normally, but everyone reacts differently.
It might sound a bit crassed, but in terms of drugs and the associated risk you can say “you get what you paid for”.
You always know what can happen if you take any substances. Such things shouldn’t necessarily be a surprise or ever after.
It’s not good or bad when something happens. It’s just what you let yourself in. 😊
For this, however, one also knows that one is not exposed to this danger if one does not take drugs. What’s the case with you now.
So you can finish it. 😊
Well, 3 years ago, I was much naive and “doubt” as jz.. jz I got jealous but with 16 I was really still inexperienced. In addition, you don’t always know when it’s overdose and getting vain and when not.. but the thought that I was standing before the TOD is just crassed and easy to load still though I’ve been clean for 2.5 – 3 years now. I didn’t know that there was Crystal Meth (stretched as I said) my dealer told me about then only in retrospect..
Yeah, but you always bear the responsibility for what you do.
You weren’t given anything under compulsion.
When you get drugs from dubious sources, you know that this can be contaminated, stretched, etc., or that you might hold something completely different in your hands than you think.
I had already severe cancer, where it was not established whether the curable is, and in time I have “experimentalized” with anaesthetic agents. tested with low doses if I had an effective preparation for emergency.
No one wants to settle in a bowel clasp and hard cramps in their own feces. 😜😂
But if that had gone wrong, I wouldn’t have complained to anyone. Some things could have happened.
That was the risk. 😊
You bear the responsibility for what makes you do.
I think you haven’t processed this yet. That’s why I’d recommend therapy.
Yeah.
You’re in the middle of a process. And he should lead you into your own middle.
Right now, you’re like a comet.
When you find out why you searched for these limits, you know the human misery.
If you stop hunting, you become the sun. You seem for others. Because this is your destiny.