The start of sophomore year was an off to go a good start I was in honors classes, getting over my ex, and had the best friends. At least that's how it was seen from the outside no one knew that underneath my clothes were endless lines carved into my skin. Other habits got picked up I was avid drug user and alcoholic, and most days I showed up to school high. I stopped caring about my education, theatre, even my own life putting in the bare minimum to get by every day. By the end of my sophomore year I was getting high as often as I could, then summer came which opened up a new playing field.
The summer of 2015 consisted of three things work, school, and partying sometimes those would coincide together. I would take tabs of acid at work, lines of coke during class, and anything else to help disconnect me. In all honesty, I barely tried to get by sure I got as A in summer school, but the only reason I even had to retake was because I was drugged out during the year. My job almost fired me countless as times, as they should I have for my behavior it was unworthy of my job. When junior year started I was worse than I ever had been I came to school on two Xanax, and carried around a cup with Malibu. No one ever knew, only my best friend Olivia who was just as messed up as I was. That would …show more content…
I was in for ten days willing, but the detox process was exhausting when you are used to always being on something to get through the day it is like hell getting off. When I was released I sat in the back of my parents car admiring all the beauty the world had to offer me in the new outlook I finally had. Being a teen with addiction issues is hard, because for the rest of your life you are an addict, even when you are twenty-one, fifty-one, or eighty one. A year later I am sober, happy, and grateful for the opportunity that I have to still attend college this
The summer of 2015 consisted of three things work, school, and partying sometimes those would coincide together. I would take tabs of acid at work, lines of coke during class, and anything else to help disconnect me. In all honesty, I barely tried to get by sure I got as A in summer school, but the only reason I even had to retake was because I was drugged out during the year. My job almost fired me countless as times, as they should I have for my behavior it was unworthy of my job. When junior year started I was worse than I ever had been I came to school on two Xanax, and carried around a cup with Malibu. No one ever knew, only my best friend Olivia who was just as messed up as I was. That would …show more content…
I was in for ten days willing, but the detox process was exhausting when you are used to always being on something to get through the day it is like hell getting off. When I was released I sat in the back of my parents car admiring all the beauty the world had to offer me in the new outlook I finally had. Being a teen with addiction issues is hard, because for the rest of your life you are an addict, even when you are twenty-one, fifty-one, or eighty one. A year later I am sober, happy, and grateful for the opportunity that I have to still attend college this