Has your drug use or alcohol misuse brought disruption, dysfunction and destruction to your life?

Have loved ones pleaded with you to get into treatment and recover?

Well, DON’T!

If you feel depressed, oppressed and suppressed by addiction, that’s the last thing you want to do is to believe you need to “recover” from it!

I understand why you think it’s what you should do and it would be so if it was a constitutional disease.

But it isn’t. The concept of addiction as a disease is a metaphor for a process.

“The idea that addiction is a brain disease is only a framework. While I consider it the best framework we have based on the latest scientific evidence, there are other ways to understand addiction. Further, this framework that addiction is a brain disease will probably be revised or even completely discarded one day.”

“Mastering the Addicted Brain”, Walther Ling. M.D. (2017)

That day has come! The promotion of addiction and recovery is replete with medical terminology and metaphors that have galvanized theory as fact. The result? The addicted remain afflicted with the notion that their habit of altering their state with drugs or drink has led to an altered state! The best version of themselves is now a “person in sustained remission “ from their ever-present disease!

Ok. So what’s the problem with wanting to recover? Well, it suggests one needs to recover from something that was done to them instead of something that they did to themselves.

If you want to defeat addictive behavior, you should not think of yourself as a patient in need of “treatment”.

Rather, realize you’re in need of information - transformational education!

You don’t have a “condition”. You have a situation! Decisions change situations!

Take action! Make positive decisions! Renew, rejoice, reclaim, reboot, recommit, reconstruct, reconnect, respond, revamp, return, rebuild, renovate, resolve, reconcile, regenerate, rejuvenate, reform, reshape, remake, reestablish, rescue, retrieve, recoup, regain, redeem, refresh, revive, repair, rethink, refuse and repent!

You are not powerless! You are powerful and able to put your “disease in remission” - by your permission!

#addictionrecovery -ed@recoverreality.com