Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oxnard (The Nard), CA, USA.
Posts: 13,978
I'm sure I have a good list of compelling reasons that brought me to the drink. And each one of those initial causes that made me seek a simple way to feel good, relieved, forgetful. Forget got forgotten along the way of decades of addiction.
Oh sure, what drove me to escape feeling bad stuff lingered in my new sober life. But the first order of business was to get and stay sober. Interesting enough the initial causes that started me on that long path of active addiction, mattered little compared to practicing a recovery plan that addressed specifically addiction.
Now with a base of sobriety, thanks to an addiction treatment plan, I can look into those dark recess of my pre-drug days that may (most likely) have caused me to pick up in the first place.
Just expanding what was already posted as a reply to you Alchy...hope it helps...it did help me to try to help you.