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Dear Lilya,
I am so glad you have been brave enough to talk about some very tough issues. We have a lot in common. I quit most of my drinking and drugs about 1983, when I decided I was not going to let them wreck my marriage and my kids. In 2001 I stopped relapsing out of fear of a liver transplant. How brave of you to point out how hard abstinence is. I, too, suffer from manic depression and know how hard it is to abstain from relationships while working on self. I am just learning about the addiciton to adrenalin that mania heightens and the crisis addiction, and since my crisis addiction last time nearly killed me, like the substance abuse, I too have abstained from relationships, It can be very hard. But I find, like you seem, to, that the support gets us through it one day at a time, or even one moment at a time. Thank God the twelve steps can be applied to any form of addiction -- substance abuse, co-dependency, the compulsions of mania like overeating, overtalking, overspending, oversexing, and overdoing in general. I hope you have a good day, and I want to thank you for your honesty and helping me see things more clearly as a result of your honesty. I believe honesty is the key. Denial and lies are the toxins that kill us, if we let them.
Nancy
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