Two weeks have gone by and you find that your pain isn't going away. You don't understand. You've been taking the pain medication every six hours like prescribed. What you should have done is wean yourself off them a week ago. You decide to take a second pill, believing it will help.
Addiction is sly.
It reels you in and takes hold very quickly. The mind likes this numbing agent, be it pain pills or sleeping pills, etc. It will make you believe that the dosage you are taking doesn't work. Soon you will find that you need to take more and more pills and in shorter periods. A deep depression fills you as your mind becomes warped by the medication in your system.