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nocellphone · 07-21-2006, 12:40 PM

I appreciate your post, Rusty...

Often when I'm faced yet again with the harsh realities of where the disease of alcoholism/addiction takes people, it's almost as if my emotions go into shut-down mode. It always turns out that my denial mechanisms have been triggered, which for me is ok, so long as I don't remain in that denial to the point where my life again becomes unmanageable.

Denial is the shock absorber for the soul, a protective tool that has its place and its use. It tends to lift when I'm ready to experience what I need to experience in a healthy way. As a friend in the rooms once put it, "The difference today is that, while I may still go there from time to time, now I only visit. I no longer LIVE there..."

07-21-2006, 12:40 PM	#4 (permalink)
nocellphone Cruelty-Free Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Body: South Florida Heart: Yosemite National Park Posts: 916	I appreciate your post, Rusty... Often when I'm faced yet again with the harsh realities of where the disease of alcoholism/addiction takes people, it's almost as if my emotions go into shut-down mode. It always turns out that my denial mechanisms have been triggered, which for me is ok, so long as I don't remain in that denial to the point where my life again becomes unmanageable. Denial is the shock absorber for the soul, a protective tool that has its place and its use. It tends to lift when I'm ready to experience what I need to experience in a healthy way. As a friend in the rooms once put it, "The difference today is that, while I may still go there from time to time, now I only visit. I no longer LIVE there..." __________________ Oh, yeah!!! Recovery is not a mysterious process. The only mystery is why it took some of us so long to get here... and why some choose not to stay.