Gena Lazelle / Sober Life Victory
My Cure Became My New Addiction
I’m Fine
David Stoecker / Better Life in Recovery
If not for my sister finding me unconscious in a pool of blood, I would not be here.
Read MoreThe Click (Or, How I Came To Realize I Was an Alcoholic)
Drew Gibson / Virally Suppressed
I remember distinctly going to the campus library and renting the original Cat On A Hot Tin Roof and being blown away at how thoroughly I identified with the movie’s alcoholic protagonist, Brick. He drank the way that I drank and he drank for the same reasons I drank–that is to say, he drank alcoholicly.
Read MoreThe 7 Habits of a Mildly Intellectual Man.
#TBT*
This post originally appeared on Wrath66.com, a now defunct blog of yours truly, sometime in the fall of 2008. It is here now as an insight into the head of an addict, at that point almost 10 years in recovery, drifting about the upper reaches of a very deep depression. Unsure if we were headed up…or further down.
*Throwback Thursday, Mom.
Read More