I Can't Remember Putting That Up

I Can’t Remember Putting That Up

It’s completely private, this thing you do. Whether it happens in public or not doesn’t matter, because it belongs to you. The accepted wisdom is that addiction “harms those you love”, but it is in what it does to your self where the effects cut most deeply.

If you wake up next to a loser, you could always choose to leave, but if you wake up as a loser, you’re not going anywhere, really, fast.

The biggest mistake too many make is thinking they can return to a time before they were changed by whatever it is; Alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, cigarettes, pornography, eating, staring at a screen.

Trying to get back to the earlier, non-addicted you is actually impossible. You’ve changed. It’s over. You can not go back. Your brain and body are different and all you can do is be a different, post-addicted version of you.

Once you accept the basic fact that you are changed, you’re ready to go somewhere positive.