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Your Addiction Does Not Define You

Drugs and alcohol aren't my problem. Reality is my problem. 
Kirsten Corley
August 15, 2016
“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Tagged: Alcohol, Drinking, Getting Drunk
“You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don’t really know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal symptoms were mild. I think it no exaggeration to say it takes about a year and several hundred injections to make an addict.”
— William S. Burroughs, Junky: The Definitive Text of “Junk”
Tagged: Drug Addiction, Addicts, Addiction, Heroin, Shooting Up, Drugs
“Something else is hurting you - that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think.”
— Charles Bukowski, Tales Of Ordinary Madness
Tagged: Pain, Masking Pain, Addiction, Struggle, Escapism
“But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.”
— Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
Tagged: College, Alcohol
“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Tagged: Understanding, Recovery
“Sometimes I feel like I could have saved him. I mean, I know I could have saved him.”
— R.M Drake, Beautiful And Damned
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Suicide Awareness, Keep Going, Saving Someone, Life And Death
“Don't let them see you like this. Don't let them know how alone you really are.”
— R.M Drake, A Brillant Madness
Tagged: Suicide Awareness, Don't Give Up, Try Again, You Matter
“I've been watching you. I'm here with you. You are not alone; you have never been alone.”
— R.M Drake, Beautiful And Damned
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Try Again, Be Strong, Life And Death, Not Alone, I'm Here For You
“Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.’”
— R. M. Drake, Beautiful And Damned
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Life And Death, Strength And Courage
“Never underestimate a person’s potential for recovery.”
— Victoria Maxwell, 18 Quotes to Get You Through Instead of Going Under
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Recovery, Potential
“I can feel you through your lonely eyes, and I hope one day you'll understand how everything that hurt us was everything that made us who we are.”
— R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection
Tagged: Lonely, Hope, One Day, hurt, Made You Who You Are, R.M Drake
“We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.”
— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up
Tagged: Relaxation, Life, Drugs
“I look to drugs and booze to fill up a hole in me.”
— Russell Brand, Russell Brand: my life without drugs
Tagged: Drug Addiction, Recovering Addict, Drugs, Alcohol
“Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.”
— Russell Brand, Russell Brand: my life without drugs
Tagged: Drug Addiction, Alcohol, Drugs, Recovering Addict
“It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing?”
— Russell Brand, Russell Brand My Life Without Drugs
Tagged: Drug Addiction, addict, Alcohol, Drugs
“If you regard alcoholics and drug addicts not as bad people but as sick people then we can help them to get better.”
— Russell Brand, Russell Brand: my life without drugs
Tagged: Drug Addiction, Drugs, Alcohol
“You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.”
— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism And Addiction Cure
Tagged: Alcohol, Addiction, Recovering Addict, Drugs
“At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.”
— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism And Addiction Cure
Tagged: Alcohol, Addiction, Recovering Addict, Drugs
“Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.”
— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
Tagged: Addiction, Drugs, Drug Addiction, Alcoholic
“I chose to share both the good and the bad parts of my story, and of my imagination, so that it might help even one person realize that there is hope. You are not alone. And it does get better. I promise you it’s worth it.”
— Kimberly Nalen, Poems About Addiction And Recovery
Tagged: Addiction, Drugs, Alcohol, Drug Addiction
“When you're using drugs, you're driven by this mystical black energy, a force inside you that just won't quit. And the weaker you get, the more you feed into that energy, and the more it fucks with you. When your spirit becomes dark and your lifestyle becomes dark, your existence is susceptible to infiltration by dark spirits. I've seen it so many times with addicts. You can see that they're controlled by dark energy, the way they look, their appearance, their voice, their behavior, it's not them.”
— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Tagged: Addictions, Drug Addiction, Alcohol, Recovering Addict
“God, I hope my kid doesn't end up in rehab. Or: God, I hope my kid doesn't end up in therapy...When we say things like that, though, we underscore the false belief that people who seek help are failures and people who don't seek help are a success. It's not true. Some of the healthiest, most accomplished people I know went to both rehab and therapy, and I've known some sick motherfuckers who managed to avoid both.”
— Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering The Things I Drank To Forget
Tagged: Drinking, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drugs, Addictions
“Addiction was the inverse of honest work. It was everything, right now. I drank away nervousness, and I drank away boredom, and I needed to build a new tolerance. Yes to discomfort, yes to frustration, yes to failure, because it meant I was getting stronger. I refused to be the person who only played games she could win.”
— Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering The Things I Drank To Forgot
Tagged: Drinking, Addictions, Self Worth, help, Recovery
“We all want to believe that our pain is singular - that no on else has felt this way - but our pain is ordinary, which is both a blessing and a curse. It means we're not unique. But it also means we're not alone.”
— Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering The Things I Drank To Forget
Tagged: Addiction, Recovering Addict, Alcohol, Self Worth, Recovery
“Not taking a drink was easy. Just a matter of muscle movement, the simple refusal to put alcohol to my lips. The impossible part was everything else. How could I talk to people? Who would I be? What would intimacy look like, if it weren’t coaxed out by the glug-glug of a bottle of wine or a pint of beer? Would I have to join AA? Become one of those frightening 12-step people? How the fuck could I write? My livelihood, my identity, my purpose, my light—all extinguished with the tightening of a screw cap.”
— Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering The Things I Drank To Forget
Tagged: Addiction, Drugs, Alcohol, Recovering Addict, Recovering
“Alcohol was an escalating madness, and the blackout issue was the juncture separating two kinds of drinking. One kind was a comet in your veins. The other kind left you sunken and cratered, drained of all light.”
— Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering The Things I Drank To Forget
Tagged: Addiction, Recovery, Drugs, Drug Addiction