

“The reason we鈥檙e all so miserable may be because we鈥檙e working so hard
to avoid being miserable.”
― Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
to avoid being miserable.”
― Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
“Addiction can show us what is deeply suspect about nostalgia. That drive to return to the past isn鈥檛 an innocent one. It鈥檚 about stopping your passage to the future, it鈥檚 a symptom of fear of death, and the love of predictable experience. And the love of predictable experience, not the drug itself, is the major damage done to heroin users. Not getting on with your life is much more likely than going to the emergency room, and much harder to discern from the inside.”
― How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z
― How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z
“Someone else鈥檚 idea of what constitutes a good life or 鈥渉appily ever after鈥 is not a one-size-fits-all.
You can be someone for whom relationships are too complicated.
You can be going through something in your life, processing trauma you may have denied for too long, or you can be going through physical changes in your body. Either way, you might not have the desires other people expect you to have.
Maybe all you want right now is a friend. Friendship is the best foundation, anyway, for whatever may evolve beyond that.
It boils down to this: Not everyone wants the same thing, and that鈥檚 okay.”
― Grateful to Be Alive: My Road to Recovery from Addiction
You can be someone for whom relationships are too complicated.
You can be going through something in your life, processing trauma you may have denied for too long, or you can be going through physical changes in your body. Either way, you might not have the desires other people expect you to have.
Maybe all you want right now is a friend. Friendship is the best foundation, anyway, for whatever may evolve beyond that.
It boils down to this: Not everyone wants the same thing, and that鈥檚 okay.”
― Grateful to Be Alive: My Road to Recovery from Addiction

“Drinking alone is what you do when you can鈥檛 stand the feeling of living in your own skin. Boswell describes this in his Life of Johnson: 鈥淚 drink alone,鈥 Johnson explains, 鈥渢o get rid of myself, to send myself away. Wine makes a man better pleased with himself.”
― Drinking: A Love Story
― Drinking: A Love Story
“I learned early on how to act normal even when crazy things were happening.”
― Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery
― Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery
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