#addiction

As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#alcohol #barriers #celebrate #congress #down

Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it. ↗

— Richie Sambora

#addictions #different #different things #education #getting

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now. ↗

— George A. Sheehan

#am #change #due #i #i am

I WILL CHANGE THIS WORLD ABSOLUTELY ↗

— DAVID RAT

#inspirational #sad-truth #change

I'm not crying out for help, but I am sharing my experience in the hopes that readers will get something out of it. I'm not the one who gets to decide what that is, if anything. I'm just starting the "journey" if you will, so I can't possibly know yet what the "message" of my life really is. I only know what has happened so far, and how I've felt up until this moment. I agree that reading about the pain of others is concerning when they are still hurting and in the same situation as when they wrote about it. But what can you do? You can reach out, ask how you can help and be there to listen. You can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved. You can't love someone who doesn't love themselves enough to take care of themselves and stay out of bad situations. Believe me, I know this. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#drugs #experience #journal #life #prostitution

When you are secure in yourself, know what turns you on, and enjoy watching your partner watch you experience sexual pleasure, you have a highly novel relationship grounded in love. The experience of seeing and being seen fuels lust and desire. This is exactly the way you integrate healthy lust and love into your sex life. It’s relational sex, not the old pornographic sex of past addictions. ↗

— Alexandra Katehakis

#desire #love #lust #pornography #sex

You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#lack-of-interest #family

I never met an addict who came from a nice home . I've met addicts that came from families that had money and nice houses. But never from a nice home. ↗

— Sara Gran

#families #noir #family

There are millions of people out there who live this way, and their hearts are breaking just like mine. It’s okay to say, “My kid is a drug addict or alcoholic, and I still love them and I’m still proud of them.” Hold your head up and have a cappuccino. Take a trip. Hang your Christmas lights and hide colored eggs. Cry, laugh, then take a nap. And when we all get to the end of the road, I’m going to write a story that’s so happy it’s going to make your liver explode. It’s going to be a great day. ↗

— Dina Kucera

#drug-addiction #drugs #family-relationships #family

Developing intrinsic, emotional sustainability is the key to unlock the chains of emotional addictions... For this you must have tolerance, humility, and a desire to create happiness for yourself-independently... ↗

— Robin Phipps Woodall

#emotional-freedom #freedom