People in Recovery

Treatment is a formative time for a recovering addict—the ideas that seem to save us end up staying with us.

In other words, they may also be engaged in professional treatment, attending live support groups, seeking medical or mental health care, or some combination of the above.

Many arrive in addiction treatment with clear symptoms of pathological gambling that often go unrecognized.

Having an escape plan or a back-up excuse should you need to leave a stressful situation quickly can also be very helpful.

I’m constantly focused on acknowledging things I can’t control. I turn it over to my HP just like I used to do with the desire to drink.

It’s a form of rehab for the brain recovering from sick, negative thinking.

True religious fanaticism is, in my experience, quite different from the sort of spiritual practice we find in most 12 Step groups.

When you give in to panic, you find yourself with two problems rather than one: The thing that’s scaring you, and the fact that you’re panicky and can’t reason clearly.

In most cases, the intrusive thoughts associated with addiction (cravings, disturbing images, etc) go away during the course of recovery.

But no matter how difficult a challenge or how great a triumph it is for us to get from there to here, life’s still going to keep throwing more problems at us.