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“You preach cleanliness,so I try to keep my room clean,but I feel no closer to God, and I guess thats okaybecause he doesnt knowwho hes fucking with anyway.”
“A room full of fags gives me the horrors. They jerk around like puppets on invisible strings, galvanized into hideous activity that is the negation of everything living and spontaneous. The live hu...”
“Perhaps all pleasure in only relief”
“They say you cant build Rome in a day, but Im pretty sure you could destroy it in even less.”
“A junkie runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junk time to start. A sick junkie has no escape from external time, no...”
“Ah'm thinking about shoutin 'stop' but ah could never turn away at this point. If smack is as addictive as they say, then ah'm already aw the junky ah'm ever gaunny be.”
“I had drunk myself to oblivion,Stepped from the room into a dreamless slumber,My consciousness had parted ways,Taking a well-earned vacation.”
“No one is entitled to anything. Everything we get in this life we have worked for. And sometimes we take on baggage we never even signed up for, but that dosen't mean you deserve it. I wake up ever...”
“The answer to the drug problem is not criminalisation and incarceration, but education, regulation and treatment.”
“Think of an untreated sex addict who spends hours every night until the early hours watching pornography on the internet instead of spending that time with their wife or husband, and then becomes s...”
“Its important to be aware that many families are dysfunctional, but we can change the patterns. Even if a child grew up in an aggressive or addictive household, they can heal and move past that wit...”
“Mental stories can literally spoil a human life. It took me a long time to become aware of my mental commentary, such as: Everything always goes wrong, I wont be accepted, Im a failure or Whats the...”
“In the addiction recovery community, we recognise that addicts can starve themselves of receiving social, sexual or emotional nourishment. Sex and love addicts starve themselves of a healthy, perso...”
“When we seek to escape from inner conflict and pain, we are running away from unresolved childhood trauma or original pain. Most people with serious addictive natures who are in the process of reco...”
“Top lines to a human being who tends to isolate (an avoidant) would mean they make an effort to talk to another human being when the opportunity arises. A top line can also mean that, whether we fe...”
“Bottom lines are addictive behaviours that we make a conscious choice not to repeat. For example, a recovering cocaine addict would create a bottom line that they will not use a mind- or mood-alter...”
“He was a black hole to anyone who might imagine that he or she was a friend of his.”
“Addiction is pretty simple. It's what happens when peolme don't get what they need, and end up soothing themselves.”
“I dont think Ive ever met an addict in long-term recovery who hasnt gone through at least one traumatic childhood experience. Research indicates that one traumatic event in childhood is as grave as...”
“Only he who is free with his time is free with his opinion.”
