I stopped doing drugs and my mental health improved dramatically

I'm 35 years old, and I've been using drugs quite heavily my whole life. I started with weed, shrooms, LSD/xanax, then moved on to pills, heroin, crack, meth, and it just got progressively worse. Then I met my wife and she was really amazing and I didn't do drugs for a year after meeting her.<br><br>I got really sick, the flu or something, and my wife left to go visit her family and I was scared, so I bought some crack, and did a little bit, and I didn't get sick anymore, and I seriously believed that it had healed me.<br><br>I ended up getting very sick a few days after, and I almost died. I went through a brutal crack binge, and then I stopped doing drugs again for a year or so, and then I started doing them again.<br><br>Then my relationship ended and I was really sad, so I stopped doing drugs again. 3 years sober, and then I started doing drugs again, crack in particular, and I got really sick and I almost died again. 3 years sober, and then I started again.<br><br>But for the last 8 months, I have been sober and my mental health has vastly improved. I have a good job, a lovely apartment, and I'm married again. She's lovely, but she's seriously ill. I really love her, and we're happy together, but she's having problems right now, and I'm hanging in there. I'm not doing drugs anymore. I don't have any desire to, and I'm living proof that you can quit drugs even though you've been doing them for a very long time, and you can be happy.<br><br>It really fucking sucks to be sad, but you can power through. I hope I can help inspire someone in the same way that I was inspired not to do drugs anymore.<br><br>I'm disabled and I really fucking hate it, but I'm living a happy life, and I'm not doing drugs anymore. I go to therapy, and I'm in a 12 step program, and I have a sponsor, and I read books, and I'm fucking happy, and I don't do drugs anymore.<br><br>You can do it.