How to Talk so Someone With Addiction Will Listen (families)

I must take responsibility for the ways I acted and the things I did. Then, I must ask if there is anything I can do to make these mistakes right.

Now we carry 24 hour access to crap in our pockets, via the phone. And rather than a couple irritating broadcasters, we have access to millions.

There will be times where you catch yourself lying either in your head or to somebody– fix it, there is major growth there when you do.

…there’s general agreement that the experience of being raised in a home with a troubled parent can and does have adverse impact on adult behavior

As we explored their dilemma, the father suddenly had an insight: the money he gave his son, regardless of reason, just wound up in some in some drug dealer’s pocket.

There’s not much point in pretending that all those years of dousing the brain with toxins hasn’t left its mark.

For most of us, personal risk management boils down to inserting a process of logical reasoning between the desire and the action.

Of course, the drinker isn’t aware of having entered a blackout. Far as they’re concerned, things are proceeding as normal.

Of course, left to its own devices, addiction often worsens.

As control erodes, the drinker redoubles efforts to regain it. Some resort to “white-knuckle” abstinence, giving up alcohol for a while, just to prove to themselves or someone else that they can.