“Alcohol was an escalating madness, and the blackout issue was the juncture separating two kinds of drinking. One kind was a comet in your veins. The other kind left you sunken and cratered, drained of all light.”Tagged: Addiction, Recovery, Drugs, Drug Addiction
“Not taking a drink was easy. Just a matter of muscle movement, the simple refusal to put alcohol to my lips. The impossible part was everything else. How could I talk to people? Who would I be? What would intimacy look like, if it weren’t coaxed out by the glug-glug of a bottle of wine or a pint of…”Tagged: Addiction, Drugs, Alcohol, Recovering Addict, Recovering
“We all want to believe that our pain is singular - that no on else has felt this way - but our pain is ordinary, which is both a blessing and a curse. It means we're not unique. But it also means we're not alone.”Tagged: Addiction, Recovering Addict, Alcohol, Self Worth, Recovery
“God, I hope my kid doesn't end up in rehab. Or: God, I hope my kid doesn't end up in therapy...When we say things like that, though, we underscore the false belief that people who seek help are failures and people who don't seek help are a success. It's not true. Some of the healthiest, most…”Tagged: Drinking, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drugs, Addictions
“Addiction was the inverse of honest work. It was everything, right now. I drank away nervousness, and I drank away boredom, and I needed to build a new tolerance. Yes to discomfort, yes to frustration, yes to failure, because it meant I was getting stronger. I refused to be the person who only…”Tagged: Drinking, Addictions, Self Worth, help, Recovery
“That is true strength. To want what you have, and not what someone else is holding.”Tagged: strength, Wants, Jealousy
“The blackouts were horrible. It was hideous to let those nights slide into a crack in the ground. But even scarier was to take responsibility for the mess I’d made. Even scarier was to remember your own life.”Tagged: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse
“Alcohol was an escalating madness, and the blackout issue was the juncture separating two kinds of drinking. One kind was a comet in your veins. The other kind left you sunken and cratered, drained of all light.”Tagged: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse
“Be kind to drunk people, for every one of them is fighting an enormous battle.”Tagged: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse
“Sobriety has a way of sorting out your friendships. They begin to fall into two categories: people you feel comfortable being yourself with—and everyone else.”Tagged: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse
“Sometimes people drift in and out of your life, and the real agony is fighting it. You can gulp down an awful lot of seawater, trying to change the tides.”Tagged: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse