Tatli those words were also eye opening and powerful for me...
Summerpeach, reading this for me was tantamount to being in AA and hearing alkies say things like "when I ended up hitting my 4th wife and making her lose our baby, I realized something had to change".
It is all about placing addiction in its proper dimension.
I do not know what it is or why some recover and some end up death in denial and total sickness. The only thing I know is what a small touch of it did to my life, how it made me feel, and what it has done to others here, and in real life, from many different sides as parents, siblings, children, friends, partners. To me all those experiences align with this text above.
Anyway, we take what works and disregard what doesn't. No one is powerless, as we have many examples of recovered people around here, but how many have the will and strength to recover? how many times did they relapse? and what was the cost each time? to me this thread says "this battle is not yours, wake up to the blessing of being away from this devil and be grateful today for being truly free".