Addiction and the LOO

[InsideConsciousness]

I  too have struggled with addictions in my way.
I was 15 and had begun partying, and after many weekends with fun, there suddenly came a weekend where we had no alcohol, and i was so disappointed, and almost furious, it was such a break, i realized that oh my oh my, i get easily addicted. And it was true, everything afterwards have told me the same. I then decided to stick to nicotine and coffee, and absolutely never test opioids. And so i did.
And a life went , and i became so ill i had to reevaluate everything. Like my diet.  I understood carbohydrates wasnt my thing and started to follow low carb-high fat diet. It worked. And i understood carbs are all sugars and they are addictive, thats the way they work on me, giving me a high and low. Creating the typical manic depressive type i surely can be without.
But whan that was solved, things calmed down, and i began to realize that i had allergies. And i found a therapist who diagnosed me. It took time, allergies goes up and down, they are not equally bad every day.
But as she found another one, i quit them immediately, and often tried them again after a year or so, to see what it was. Then i found out about the brain fog.
Allergies have two distinct modes, acute and chronic. When they are acute you get big symptoms of small samples, while the chronic gives no clear symptoms but an overall discomfort and that brainfog. This because the body is overrun by eating this wrong stuff everyday.
Then i realized what i had seen in the party zone, there are people coming for recreational drugs, (lsd, mushroom and trips) while there are others coming for what they know is addictive.
Thats why some souls "choose" to go that path, because they are full of this  discomfort they cannot localize anywhere, they just feel this urgent need to escape, and the brainfog makes them unable to think reasonable, even think at all.
Also there are articles around on how allergies trigger addictions. The flow of histamines is like a drug too and when it withdraws, cravings start.
I got a treatment for histamine intolerance at my therapist, which i had built up during my allergic life. And i felt it took the out the foundation of my addictive personality.
I read the list of histamine provoking foods, and of course i found my new favorites there, like pickles and dried fruit. They contain mold and that demands reactions.
I quit nicotine 12 yrs ago, and coffee 4 years ago. I got a treatment for the last one, (bioresonans - eLybra) and i have never thought about it since. These machines are really good, you should tip people on opioids about them, as they work wonders in flushing out chemical residue.

Wow that's awesome you caught your addiction early as it sounds very similar to myself - started experimenting young and on the days I couldn't smoke weed (Never really drank much unless I couldn't get my first love - Opiates) I would be a neurotic mess. Good on you for doing that! You avoided much heartache to yourself and the people who love you. My diet was pretty s*** and while its not perfect now it's much better - I am naturally an ectomorph that has struggled to gain weight most of my life so nowadays carbs/fat/protein are important for me to put on muscle and size.. having abused my body for almost a decade with drugs I'm still in the rebuilding period.

I really like what you said about how some souls choose to go that route because they can't localize discomfort - for myself it was definitely the feeling of being different (I was bi racial and the only asian kid in a school class of 380 kids and a school of over 1000). I'm truly grateful for my addiction - I never would have said that during active addiction but I see what it taught it now. I never would have been interested in so many different forms of religion and spirituality if it weren't for me hitting rock bottom so many times - I see so many people skirting by through life just staying lukewarm because they haven't faced true hardship which can really be transformative (In good and bad ways). I'm attend 12 step meetings and hearing some of the stories of other addicts and how they devoted there life toward service to others and how since then all these great things just came to them instead of them fighting the flow of things. It's powerful and really drives home the Law of One which is the main message of Ra.