dirtyharry
GLP-1 Apprentice
As you can imagine with the nature of this topic, I'll be getting into some personal details for the sake of our combined antidotal research on this amazing peptide.
Quick Background:
I've been in recovery for the last 10 years practicing the steps of 'Alcoholics Anonymous'. First getting sober on January 1st of 2016, I am now in a place where alcohol and drugs don't even remotely bother me. My desire to use or drink is gone. Like many of you, I got into Retatrutide out of a desire to get into better shape. I spent 9 years of my sobriety overweight. I briefly lost weight in 2020 counting calories but quit and gained the pounds back. At the beginning of 2025, I started counting calories again, eating within a large deficit. Additionally, I started hitting the gym 5 days a week. To this day (a year later) this has been my constant routine and I am in the best shape of my life. Now, recovery has helped me in almost every facet of my life. I won't get into the unrelated details but, I have a program that allows me to work on every issue that could possibly come up. All except one.
Since 2025 I have been dealing with something I've labeled "The Raccoon." No idea why I call it that but it represents an issue that nothing seems to help with. I go to meetings, eat perfectly, weight train, be of service to others, get 8 hours of sleep, see a therapist every week, keep in contact with family, and many other things. Yet, this Raccoon has persisted. It isn't a constant enough issue to where it interferes in my endeavors but it has brought me to the point of ending my life on a few occasions.
Peptide Journey:
Like many of you, I first heard about Retarutide through social media and the almighty algorithm slowly piqued my interest in it. Eventually, I decided to start seriously looking into it. My desire was to lose additional weight as I had gone from 225lbs to 190lbs but wanted to progress further. In my addiction, I became VERY familiar with the darknet, research chemicals, crypto etc. so this wasn't a new space for me. I started on Reddit but quickly noticed a roadblock in the form of Reddit's progressively restrictive measures against this sort of thing. Back in the day, information was plastered all over on where to buy research chemicals and how to buy them. It's not like that anymore. Anyways, I quickly found this fourm and got connected with vendors. I made my first order, and after learning how to inject properly (never evolved to shooting back in the day), we were in.
Now:
As I said, my interest was in losing more weight and slimming down. I had no idea about the effects of Retarutide on the dopamine reward center and its potential to help alcoholics. I took Retarutide for the first time a little over a week ago and as you'd expect, my obsessive thoughts surrounding food nearly completely dissipated on only 1mg. It was incredible. But something even more incredible happened as well. That "Raccoon" I mentioned earlier was quieted. For the first time, a personal issue I had been dealing with to suicidal extents was made silent. I was blown away to say the least. Now, it eventually did come back but its control over me has SIGNIFICANTLY been dulled. This has given me a better opening to dealing with in therapy and my support group. I don't know why exactly some random peptide weight loss agent had such a profound effect on such a difficult area of my life (other than weight control) but it did.
The reason I'm telling you all this is in hopes that this information can shine some more light on either alcoholism/ addiction or GLP-1s. I still plan on maintaining my healthy practices with or without Retarutide, but this peptide has made a positive impact on my life in more ways than one. Furthermore, I am still very early into this new journey so I plan on updating this post as new things develop.
Quick Background:
I've been in recovery for the last 10 years practicing the steps of 'Alcoholics Anonymous'. First getting sober on January 1st of 2016, I am now in a place where alcohol and drugs don't even remotely bother me. My desire to use or drink is gone. Like many of you, I got into Retatrutide out of a desire to get into better shape. I spent 9 years of my sobriety overweight. I briefly lost weight in 2020 counting calories but quit and gained the pounds back. At the beginning of 2025, I started counting calories again, eating within a large deficit. Additionally, I started hitting the gym 5 days a week. To this day (a year later) this has been my constant routine and I am in the best shape of my life. Now, recovery has helped me in almost every facet of my life. I won't get into the unrelated details but, I have a program that allows me to work on every issue that could possibly come up. All except one.
Since 2025 I have been dealing with something I've labeled "The Raccoon." No idea why I call it that but it represents an issue that nothing seems to help with. I go to meetings, eat perfectly, weight train, be of service to others, get 8 hours of sleep, see a therapist every week, keep in contact with family, and many other things. Yet, this Raccoon has persisted. It isn't a constant enough issue to where it interferes in my endeavors but it has brought me to the point of ending my life on a few occasions.
Peptide Journey:
Like many of you, I first heard about Retarutide through social media and the almighty algorithm slowly piqued my interest in it. Eventually, I decided to start seriously looking into it. My desire was to lose additional weight as I had gone from 225lbs to 190lbs but wanted to progress further. In my addiction, I became VERY familiar with the darknet, research chemicals, crypto etc. so this wasn't a new space for me. I started on Reddit but quickly noticed a roadblock in the form of Reddit's progressively restrictive measures against this sort of thing. Back in the day, information was plastered all over on where to buy research chemicals and how to buy them. It's not like that anymore. Anyways, I quickly found this fourm and got connected with vendors. I made my first order, and after learning how to inject properly (never evolved to shooting back in the day), we were in.
Now:
As I said, my interest was in losing more weight and slimming down. I had no idea about the effects of Retarutide on the dopamine reward center and its potential to help alcoholics. I took Retarutide for the first time a little over a week ago and as you'd expect, my obsessive thoughts surrounding food nearly completely dissipated on only 1mg. It was incredible. But something even more incredible happened as well. That "Raccoon" I mentioned earlier was quieted. For the first time, a personal issue I had been dealing with to suicidal extents was made silent. I was blown away to say the least. Now, it eventually did come back but its control over me has SIGNIFICANTLY been dulled. This has given me a better opening to dealing with in therapy and my support group. I don't know why exactly some random peptide weight loss agent had such a profound effect on such a difficult area of my life (other than weight control) but it did.
The reason I'm telling you all this is in hopes that this information can shine some more light on either alcoholism/ addiction or GLP-1s. I still plan on maintaining my healthy practices with or without Retarutide, but this peptide has made a positive impact on my life in more ways than one. Furthermore, I am still very early into this new journey so I plan on updating this post as new things develop.
