Beating Heroin Addiction Thread: So...This Sunday, 11th April will be 15 years since I conquered my heroin addiction and left prostitution!! 1 week before my eldests birthday NO ONE thought I would do it or maintain it but I KNEW I would NEVER touch heroin again!

I just knew I was exhausted, physically, emotionally & mentally! I didn’t know what “clean” looked like, I only knew chaos, pain, violence and barely existing! So “clean” was scary as fuck! “Clean” meant losing my “relationship” “Clean” meant losing my “friends”

And scariest of all “Clean” meant having to be ME and I’d been running from ME since childhood! Heroin was my friend, my family and my peace! Heroin stopped my thoughts until my only thoughts were Heroin! Being “Clean” meant facing my demons and finding ME whoever I was?

And I’m STILL finding ME! 15yrs later I’m back in therapy this time dealing with the trauma of being pimped into prostitution & ending up a heroin addicted prostitute because I can and have talked about addiction anywhere BUT Prostitution is SO stigmatised that I couldn’t

Or wouldn’t trust ANYONE with my thoughts & experiences of that life It’s only now 15yr clean that I am trusting a therapist with this and I wouldn’t have done it without @HWistrich @fiona_broadfoot @DrLucypotter & a few others not on Twitter Thankyou for helping Me find ME