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I’I’m trying to get ahead of this before I’m forced into a situation where everything falls apart. After about a year of severe 7OH dependence, my life has become centered around avoiding withdrawal and just trying to stay functional. The financial damage has been around $30,000 in additional debt, and I know I need to find a real solution instead of continuing down this path.

I tried buprenorphine because I genuinely wanted to quit, but I never reached a point where I felt stable. I continued having withdrawal symptoms and cravings, as well as debilitating acute depression.

With 7OH becoming federally restricted or banned soon, I keep thinking about what is going to happen to the tons of people who are heavily dependent and have absolutely no plan at all.

I worry that a lot of people are going to end up overwhelmed, in emergency rooms, losing their jobs, or losing their housing because they were not able to prepare ahead of time, with myself being ima part of that category if I continue on like this.

I’m trying to make the responsible choice before I get to that point. I’m seriously considering m-done, even though the reality is intimidating: waking up early every day, driving to another city, dosing in person, and then trying to make it back and continue working.

For those who have been through severe dependence or a similar situation, I would really like to hear your experiences.

Did m-done actually give you enough stability to rebuild your life?

Was the daily clinic routine worth it?

Did you ever feel like you were too far gone to recover, and if so, what helped you turn things around?

How long did it take before you started feeling like you were getting your life back?

I’m not looking for a magic fix. I’m trying to find a realistic way forward before I lose anything else.

I'm seriously considering starting treatment because I need stability and want my life back, but I'm honestly nervous about everything that comes with going to a m-clinic. I've read so many horror stories about the rules, having to dose every day, and how difficult it can be to earn take-home doses that I'm not sure what to expect.

For those of you who have actually gone through clinic (mthdn) treatment, what was the intake process like? Were you able to keep working full-time while making it to the clinic every morning? How strict were the rules in reality, how long did it take before you earned take-home doses, and is there anything you wish someone had told you before you started? Was the process as difficult as people make it sound, or was it manageable once you got into a routine?

I'm just looking for honest experiences—the good, the bad, and everything in between—so I know what to realistically expect before making this decision.

I am so incredibly desperate for any little piece of knowledge; sit has truly reached the end, amd I just want to live again.

Tammy Slaton makes me grateful for distance in a way that feels almost spiritual.

Not because she struggles. I understand struggle. I understand shame, failure, dependency, addiction, panic, needing help, and hating yourself for needing it. I am not watching her from some clean little throne.

That is exactly why she enrages me.

Because I know what it feels like to be a burden, and I also know there has to be some sacred piece of you that says: “Do not punish the people still trying to love you.”

Tammy acts like that piece is missing.

She takes concern and treats it like persecution. She takes help and spits attitude back at it. She takes family members who are already exhausted, already worried, already emotionally wrung out, and somehow makes them the villains for daring to ask her for accountability.

And I’ll be honest: watching her pulls me dangerously close to entertaining thoughts I know better than to feed. Not because I am proud of that. Because I am disgusted by how violently satisfying it feels, for one hot second, to imagine consequences finally landing on a person who has spent years making everyone else absorb hers.

That is what makes her so hard to watch.

She does not just irritate me. She drags me toward the ugliest part of myself — the part that has to be locked behind reason, conscience, law, God, and every ounce of self-control I have left.

So yes, I am thankful she exists only through a screen. Thankful for distance. Thankful for walls. Thankful I can turn the TV off instead of standing in the same room while she turns another act of love into another emotional crime scene.

Tammy is not hard to watch because she is broken.

She is hard to watch because she keeps making the people trying to help her bleed for standing close.

Can anyone relate? I'm in season five at the moment, and I'm curious - does she EVER get better??

Currently caught in between taking them both, and I can't make it more than about 16 hours without having to dose 7OH.

Has anyone fought their way out of this before?

Does anyone have ANY advice on how to break this cycle, and finally be free from 7oh?

I've been on suboxone and 7oh for a couple of months.

Been trying to switch to suboxone only, but having a REALLY hard time doing so.

Does anyone know why that may be?

What are the effects of taking both together for too long?

Appreciate ANY advice, and I thank you for your time. I read this subreddit religiously., and just cant seem to find this in any of the guides.

I have a deferred adjudication for assault from my past. It was completed successfully with no conviction and no further legal issues since.

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I’m now seriously discerning the Catholic priesthood and trying to understand whether this would realistically be a barrier to entering seminary or being considered for ordination.

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I know each diocese evaluates candidates individually, but I’m looking for honest experiences or knowledge of how cases like this are actually handled in practice.

Is this generally a hard no, or can genuine rehabilitation and stability still make a path forward possible?

It's absolutely crippling, and it's caused me to really have a hard time staying completely sober. Has anyone ever experienced this type of severe depression? If so, I'd love to have learn of your story and experience. Is there a way put of this?

Please help!