addiction
The realities of addition; the truth about living under, above and beyond the influence of drugs and alcohol.
Nature Set Me Free...
It started out just like any another ordinary Monday in early winter 2020, when two drunks were on a drive, on the backroads of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. It was just me and my certified recovery specialist (CRS) chatting about old times. This time, however; we were on the road for our usual, weekly, 2-hour appointment because we couldn't go to any of our regular spots, due to the governor shutting everything down, in response to a rise in Covid-19 cases. I remember, it was cold and we weren't sure how we were going to have a productive meeting, since we couldn't sit across the table from each other, looking into each other's eyes, getting the full effect of one alcoholic helping the other. So, we had to just make due with driving along, with the hopes as to make our time worthwhile. He quickly fell into the setting and began sharing some memories of times in the past, when he would cruise this very road we were on (How fitting!). Somehow, in orderly fashion, he made his narrative relate to my recovery. He told me a lot that day, but there were three, unique parts to his chronicle, all involving a guy named Bo, which I now, feel like I know even though he died many years prior to my coming to the 12-step program.
By Sean P. Muchler5 years ago in Psyche
Alcohol and Motherly Parenting
As a small child, I was raised in an alcoholic home. My father worked long hours every day of the week. It was my sister and me, for the most part, at home. My mother was a very broken person. Her grandmother raised her due to her birth mother dying eleven hours after my mother was born from pneumonia. She died in 1957. "Nana" did her best raising my mother. Nana spoiled her to no end because she felt horrible for her being without her mother. So, my mother was given anything she wanted, went wherever she wanted, and never had a curfew. She was a wild child because she had so much freedom. I will share stories of her later in the series.
By Jessica Girdler5 years ago in Psyche
Imagine
Imagine... You are 5 years old. Your mother is driving the family mini van to drop your older brother and sister off at school. Your siblings get out of the car, and you give them a hug and a kiss and say goodbye for the day. They run into the building with their friends, and now you and your best friend, your mom, are alone in the car. You get to spend the whole day with the most important person in the world. The one you love more than life itself. You ask, “Mommy, what are we doing today?” Her reply- “I have to go to a friends house to pick up something, then we can do whatever you want.”
By Eliza Cahill5 years ago in Psyche
Alcohol
I grew up in a semi small town, less that 30,000 people. For California that was a small place and everyone knew everyone. It was one of those towns that you ask who their parents were and who they were related to before you asked someone out on a date. Didn't want to kiss a second cousin.
By Randi Hulme5 years ago in Psyche
The Garden
Beverlee Puckett THE GARDEN By Beverlee Puckett As I sink deep onto my California King size bed I gaze out the picture window to admire this Super Full Moon shining in all his glory. Usually I am in full swing preparing for my monthly full moon rituals and incantations to honor the Goddess her self for the ability to harvest the moons energy and will it to assist me in whatever intent my focus is on at the particular time; however, I can only think about how messed up my life has become. I can send blame in all different directions to so many people who has had a vast impact on my life. I then realize, as I begin to pull the covers slowly up around me, in the end it is my choice on how I handle each and every situation which occurs. Do I believe what I can only see? Whether I believe it or not believe what is truly going on does not matter. Your brain is so complexed. Your thoughts can become your reality. Your reality can become your thoughts. Eventually among the insanity a ugly monster with red glowing eyes will emerge.
By Beverlee Puckett5 years ago in Psyche
Alcohol rehab centres in Texas
When you have been suffering from alcohol addiction for a long time, you might have lost a huge part of your life and feel empty because of it. Addiction can make your mental health bad and when you try to leave this addiction your mind and body fight really hard and you end up getting yourself hurt. No matter how hard you try you'll need someone professional t get you through this difficult time with their expertise.
By James Charles5 years ago in Psyche
Addiction Recovery: Steps for Benefiting Your Well Being
Addiction is a devastating, heartbreaking, frustrating, and potentially deadly disease. It affects not only addicts but those around them. Unfortunately, the U.S. is amid an opioid epidemic, with millions of people abusing pain pills and powerful opiates like heroin. In addition, other addictions like alcoholism and cocaine abuse are reaching alarming levels. While this is all frightening news, there is more help available than ever for those in the grips of addiction.
By Finnegan Pierson5 years ago in Psyche
To Whom Do I owe this?
I lived perpetually plagued with the question: To whom do I owe this? My mother? My father? My genetic make up? Not knowing used to drive me crazy. I questioned the nature vs nurture arguement continuously. Over and over in my mind. Was there something I had done? or didn't do? To no avail, I pondered mercelessly. All I knew was that something....o.k.; honestly, many things were wrong. My emotions ran wild. Feelings ranging from rapture to perpetual doom plagued me. Something had me paralyzed to move; yet nothing could keep my mind from racing over and over again, quite often contemplating things of no magnitude relentlesly. Never coming to any real conclusion, and battling the feeling to run, invariably, I ran everywhere. Now at the age of 48, I still run. The difference during the later years of my life is that I am runnning to something instead of from something.
By Kim Davidson5 years ago in Psyche
