I agree novak and Steve o are such good role models they showed us change is possible. I think bam can do it to

You're doing amazing

Love & respect brother i have 3 years 5 months 3 days… some days still better then others the dreams are gone an the need to want is gone during my sober time my daughter mother overdosed an passed dec29 2021 right after Thanksgiving after Christmas right before New Year’s, and my daughter was born January 4, 2016 so during that time everybody supposed to be happy and smiling with their families for the holidays and for the first year I was a mess I didn’t use I didn’t pick up a drug or drink. I didn’t even grieve the process of losing the love of my life of 10 years. I can tell you that I miss her every single day because when I was in my drug induced coma for 6 to 10 years of my life, she didn’t use a drink or a drug. She used to beat my ass. Leave me…take away my daughter from me…have me locked up. She left me once I got clean and dated some guy who was using IV heroin me being such a drug addict. you would think I could tell somebody who is using well with her I couldn’t she wasn’t losing weight she wasn’t missing work she was having a little things happened to her never red flag me everybody knew because she told everyone in her family and my mother I was the only one who did not know and my daughter did not know so I go back and I try to think maybe I could’ve helped her and everybody and I mean everybody says everybody makes thier your own choices. There’s nothing you could’ve done, and when I heard that for the first year of her death, I wanted to punch every single person that said that in their mouth, she didn’t have all the chances that I had all the 10 rehabs 15 detoxes years in jail three years in prison she did a 28 day program in December. That’s when I found out she was using and when she came home after the 28 days I seen her on Sunday with my daughter at my mothers house and I said hey I hope you’re OK and I would love to work on our family and she said yes that sounds good. Come Monday morning I get a call she had just left at 5 AM with my daughter crying behind her saying don’t leave mommy, that would be the last time my daughter seen her that would be the last time on Sunday that I’ve seen her. I got a call on Wednesday around 11 o’clock in the afternoon I was eating strawberry shredded mini wheats. I will never forget that day I got a call from my mother saying, she’s gone she overdosed I said OK and hung up the phone. I didn’t cry I didn’t break things I didn’t use. I was basically stuck in a trans Took a few days off from work to deal with the wake and funeral and I will tell you the most pain I’ve ever felt in my life and I’ve been through a lot of pain. I’ve caused it and I’ve been through it, but I will tell you the worst pain I’ve ever felt in my entire life was walking into that wake with my five-year-old daughter at the time, and as you walk in they they play slide shows with pictures of her and my daughter some with me mostly not, and all my daughter could do was cry and say I want my mommy and there was nothing that I could do to help her I felt helpless because like I said, I can’t bring back your mommy but if there’s one thing that I can do for you is, I will stay sober. I will stay healthy and I will always be here for you now. She’s seven hasn’t been that long. She remembers bits and pieces of her mother they say that to addict parents have a 90% something chance of having an adict child well, I’m here to tell you I’m going to beat that statistic and for the gentleman that gave her the drugs her boyfriend at the time nothing happened to him. Everybody in my family and her family even her twin sister, identical twin knew who gave her the drugs, and nothing happened to him. All she became. What is the percentage in the overdose rate in our county of New York I’m glad you have that many years sober and I just wanted to get this off my chest. You may not relate to it. I just had to speak about it because I don’t talk to nobody about it when I should get it out there, so I hope you’re doing well. I know I am I’m doing the best I can for myself my family and my daughter and that’s all I can do and believe me when I say you have three years clean and sober. That’s a great thing. It’s a great feeling knowing that because I just lost a friend a week ago childhood friend and I know there’s more to come whether it’s my other childhood friends doing or friends doing 12 years in the federal prison or another friend, who is just gonna pass away and die from an overdose or drugs, but I know it’s coming, when I first went to my first rehab, they said drugs are only gonna lead to three things and I’m sure you know what those three things are, if you’ve been to programs or any sort of meetings, and they are not joking when they say that jails institutions and death is all that brings of course I didn’t believe that at time I didn’t give a shit what they said, I was gonna get high regardless jail. Been there prison been there death is the only thing that hasn’t came for me, and I will not let it through drugs or alcohol, nor my health that I’m now working on because I’ve abused my body for so long that I need to recover and it’s gonna take more time to recover. Then I probably have left on this earth but I will every day eat better, do healthier things and work harder. Some people never get over that you were an addict or stole from them and we have to just understand that the only thing we can do is apologize anyways, my rant is over. I’m glad you have that much time I figured I would give you a little background on myself because we have around the same time clean and sober and I know it’s not easy some days, but as long as we don’t pick up that drug or drink, we will wake up the next day able to do better in life society and for our families anyways, thank you if you read all this and message back if you’d like Love&respect -nicolas from NY

Elaine, I wish you a happy and fulfilling life! To Nicolas from NY, I wish you the same and a good recovery! hifromholland :)

@@baronsaturday9560 thanks love & respect 🙏🏻

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Novak can speak so well

@@GeraltOfRivia99 I know man

​@@GeraltOfRivia99He's been reeling off this same speech for years, pretty much word for word.

Good luck and I hope you succeed in beating it. 13 years ago I was finally able to beat it and it was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. I couldn’t stand rehabs or AA’s so I basically cut myself off from the world for 2 years locked away in a bedroom at my parents home. Everyone is different and need to find a path that works for them but the common factor is things will get better as long as you cut out and get far away from people you use with or score from.

It's an higher power's grace that decides when you'll get it. Keep praying for it, hit your knees, and don't forget what's beautiful about your soul and worth saving. Addiction is mental illness.

No they don't, get educated!

Take care bud! It's a marathon, not a sprint

You can do it! One day at a time - literally

How's it going bud? Hope you're sober and doing well

I'm going tonight or tomorrow to detex... again

@@michaelspoto8720 I’m 50 days clean and sober today.

❤stay strong, it gets better ❤ And please be attentive not to relapse ❤

Praise the Lord. Just keep hanging on, my dear friend. My brother was addicted for about 19 years. he died in 202. :''( Keep going don't give up my friend. No matter what anyone does or says it is not worth it to go back. Tc and GOD bless you!!! :))

Yes! Once the substances are gone, what led you to them is still there

Ya very true for me I’ve stayed sober 2 years now, but I was still sleeping in late, binging video games, eating like shit etc. I’ve now changed all of that. I wake up early, eat clean, exercise daily etc. trading bad habits for good ones 👊

You're not going to be better until you can put it down for good and commit to saying you will. Because if you wont proclaim it, it's not going to happen. You have to make your mind up that your desire to be healthy in mind, spirit, and body is greater than your desire to drink. The latter does NOTHING good for your mind, body, and soul. You're running from something. Figure out what it is, face it, and prioritize your health and peace. Growth can't happen if you won't step outside your comfort zone. If it's hard, then you're doing the right thing.

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He will.

Dido! Good luck.

I wouldn't want my dear and beloved friend telling all the problems I'm having I'm cameos that I get paid for Novak is a scumbag

He's some kind of a rat???

Who the hell is Bam Margeras? And why does this matter?

@ruthtirado2750 would you like to see your face used as advertisement? He's the face! His work was Jackass. Amazing skateboarding.

@ruthtirado2750 you have medical privacy but not a Hollywood employee?

He does the same routine over and over and over again

​​​@@Scarlettfeverdreamofnybecause that's his story

Yeah it's his story but he's not just riffing ,he practices this same speech over and over again. Wish he wasn't so rigid in his recitation

Agree this is on of his best talks no doubt

You can tell he’s an egomaniac lol

Who is yall