Addiction lives in darkness, it feeds off our secrets….
You are not alone, ask for help, no matter how hopeless it feels right now…it can get better!
On March 4th, 2012, I was having trouble breathing. “Am I going to be okay?” I asked the nurse. “I don’t know,” she said. “If you are, I hope you stop destroying your life.”
It was not the first time substance abuse had landed me in the emergency room.
I found bloody noses, heart palpitations and paranoia. I found myself alone on my knees at 6 am searching for that one last hit.
Addiction lives in darkness, it feeds off our secrets….
It is progressive, it can be fatal and it can touch anyone….
If writing this can help one person feel a little less alone, if it encourages one person to ask for help, if it allows one person to know that…
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