| Addiction is as most people already know a disease. | | | | If you think this idea is bogus I challenge you to try it |
| One which is not curable but can be treatable. The | | | | out, not for one day or a week but for a long |
| substance(s) we choose are but one small part of | | | | enough period of time that it becomes almost |
| the illness, there are many things that effect, | | | | automatic. I think you find so much relief from the |
| increase and support our addiction. Owning personal | | | | stress and game playing it will give you enough |
| responsibility for each thing that affects our illness | | | | freedom to work on other aspects of your life. And |
| removes the blame and denial. Here I will address just | | | | guess what? The same process works with anything |
| a couple of these issues briefly. Things which I have | | | | we do. Own responsibility for yourself and you will |
| struggled with personally and can say that I have | | | | stop being responsible for others burdens we have |
| trained myself to the point where they, while still | | | | enough of our own. Simply said difficult to do, but if |
| present in my life no longer control actions or | | | | you truly want to embrace recovery it is necessary. |
| decisions causing me to use. | | | | Also, remember in the process of seeking freedom |
| Lets discuss one of the most predominate emotional | | | | from the slavery of addiction we will all fail and make |
| excuse makers of any addict recovering or | | | | mistakes. It is not the mistake that is made that's |
| active-anger. I used to continually blame my anger on | | | | important it is what we do afterward that is |
| a source, such as a person, place or thing. My | | | | important. The true definition of insanity is making the |
| thought (and statement) used to be, "They really | | | | same mistake over and over again and expecting a |
| made me angry when they said or did that." Today I | | | | different result. So at least attempt to make the |
| have learned that if I consciously accept responsibility | | | | next mistake different from the last one. |
| for my anger that I no longer can use it as an | | | | One last little thing this time around, we all have |
| excuse to stay angry and let it grow into something | | | | problems big and small and addicts love to let great |
| dysfunctional. My statement now is-(What di I do to | | | | big piles of them gang up on us all at once. Here is a |
| allow that person or incident to make me angry." It's | | | | simple philosophy that could help you if you will apply |
| not about someone or something else it's about me. | | | | it to your life. "Now is all there is, it was now five |
| Even if someone or something is totally wrong in | | | | minutes ago it will be now five minutes from now. |
| how it affects me I am the one who is allowing it to | | | | How many problems can you have in that one brief |
| affect me. | | | | instant of time called now? Only one deal with it! |