Turning Back to the Other Side

In April of 2006 this blog began as a place to express feeling about addicts from the view of someone who is not. I have learned so much during this time span to 2008. About addictions, co-dependency, recovery and the demise of those who don't recover. Lately it's been all about the addict. again. The other blogs, the websites the information available online, etc. have filled my need to know more. Therefore, I want to turn this back to the other side of recovery. The view of those who are involved with addicts (those who cannot live without drugs, substances, gambling, sexual deviations, etc) as opposed to those who are are not. As stated before, perhaps our addictions are to things that aren't destructive.

I am reading a book called Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself, by by Melody Beattie. It has plowed through my own imagined wellness, causing me to look deeper still for freedom from tainted behaviors and patterns of my own afflictions. It's a great read. I have put into practice things that appeal to me, and left the things that don't fit. I like this book. It's wordy at times, as she rambles through all the possibilities that a person involved with addicts might experience. That is a good thing. It is indeed a roller coaster of unimaginable emotions, exploitations, and insight into the nature of human beings.

Once recovered, we are not all that bad. In fact I thing we are new and improved- better! I have a very good friend, sister manager who puts this at the end of all her emails:

"Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending."

Thank you Debbie - you are indeed the best of people I know....

addicts are the prodigal.. the one who gets the attention the fatted calf and forgiveness.. while the one who is straight in relation to the addict, gets the shaft. takes the responsibility and pays for the mistakes of the addict. they get the treatment which costs thousands while the straight again pays the price...there is no justice in this relation....

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