I am self employed and the victim of domestic abuse financial and emotional by my exhusband.
Unbeknown to me and after seeking professional help for my mental health after we had separated, was I educated about narccicits and the type of abuse.
On our 1st wedding anniversary my whole world was shattered by being informed by someone else’s husband of his activities, this then saw a flood of other things with further women.
At this point I started to use cocaine in order to numb my feelings and to get away from it all.
My business collapsed as I was unable to cope with everything that was going on in my personal life and went AWOL from my work, seeing me loose most of my clients.
In addition I lost most of my friends as I cut off from them.
My cocaine use increased and increased.
I now feel like I can’t work unless I do cocaine, which is dependent on money.
One of my contracts pays me weekly, so I do no work until a Thursday afternoon.
I am not productive when using, I get work done but I’m very easily distracted, focusing on things that are not important.
I am in debt not only from the effects of my exhusband but now because of my addiction.
I hate doing it, I hate that I feel like I can only work with it.
I have now registered with the local addiction service and seeking professional help with my mental health again.
But how do you, or where do you start at rebuilding not only your life but your work life and getting back into that routine.
I have written so many lists, habit trackers, started bullet journals, diary’s, online calendars.
But I ignore them all and sit on the couch watching TV, until I get paid again to buy some stuff.
I read endless ideas on focusing, motivation, routines, planning. Then I end up not working and focusing on these things.
There must be someone out there who has 1 simple step that helped them or has been in a similar situation.
I am good at what I do and my clients were mostly from recommendations from existing clients or they used me when they moved to another company.
I have lost all of them as I let them down missed deadlines, didn’t stay in contact or reply to emails.
I was financially comfortable and earned good money, I had savings, paid all my bills and had almost cleared all of my debts.
I am so fed up of being anxious about when money will be coming in so as to feed the monster inside me so that I can work.
It is so easy for people to say just stop.
I am awaiting to be tested for ADHD but still have 2 more years on the waiting list.
My friend gave me some ADHD medication a couple of years ago and my mind has never been so quiet, the cravings were gone, I felt balanced for the first time in a long time
I have tried to research for supplements that help in place of ADHD medication. I have tried NAC and it didn’t really help.
Any suggestions would also be really appreciated.
As you can probably tell I am all over the place and just feel so alone and like I am the only person struggling with all these things.