The 5th most addictive substance known to mankind...
We’ll be sitting back and watching actions, not listening to words. We have programmed ourselves to not control; we won’t be edgily waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Ninety seconds out of the front door of the treatment centre... after 30 days of seminal stuff on countering the powerful grip of alcohol and food. ..a month of working to remove the “active” from active addiction.
Ninety seconds along the road, into our journey home...she asks me to pull over at the gas station. I give her a look...she must see the panic in my expression. ..just getting a diet coke.
She drank this with vodka and she drank it like vodka, the compulsive habit of consuming litres of this toxic stuff daily. Do we think the addictive behaviour is still there? Doh.
Ninety seconds and she was satisfying the compulsion she’d been prevented from indulging in the managed environment of no junk food in the centre.
Shall we say, my expectations are low.
Im ashamed to admit I couldn't resist passing comment, albeit benign.
I know I will focus on me, I can’t control it, can’t cure it, I know, I know.
Just needed to share my adject failure moment in my own recovery....