It was entertaining at first.
[QUOTE=RogerOver;3359463]The ignore list. Used it once he started dropping me PMs. FF is such a weird douche. I'll bet he has tights and a cape hanging in his closet.[/QUOTE]A girl at the center of his "attention" has told me stories that require a truckload of popcorn to get through.
That's the 10,000 dollar question
[QUOTE=FreckleFreak;3360900]I only know what I have heard and experienced first hand. Besides hitting rock bottom or the pain of using becoming greater than the pain of being sober, what is your experience for the reason for change?[/QUOTE]I think it varies from person to person. Probably the best I've ever heard it put came from a guy who recognized me as an addict long before anybody else did. He said that when the pain or cost of a behavior (doesn't matter the behavior) gets greater than the benefit or pleasure of a behavior than there is room for change. He didn't say people would, he said there was room for it.
Without getting to "preachy" I personally think that there is also an element of something that some people call grace. I struggle with that because then it means that not anybody can do it and I think that anybody can so I don't really know.
I do know that it there is a big element of "want" involved. People got to want it, they got to want it bad, they got to want it more than dope but I don't think that happens on the same level as choice. It's not something that one comes to through logic nor reason, it's a visceral thing. It's emotional, it's mental, it's "spiritual" you got to have a hunger for a different life. You got to be willing to sacrifice and suffer. You got to be willing to say (again it's not really conscience, it's deeper) "I'll do what it takes," not "I'll do what I can. ".