Hardest Skill To Learn – Patience

Patience is a skill that addicts generally lack. They may have had a firm grasp on the concept of patience at some time in the past, but with addiction, that skill just slowly disappeared. Waiting and giving things time to progress is a concept that is altogether alien to a veteran addict. How can it […]

Addiction is not an easy topic to discuss. Especially in a family setting, where everyone cares for each other. There is a little-known paradox when it comes to talking about sensitive topics with your family members. Everyone is so convinced that they all have each other’s best interests in mind, that some families have left […]

As a general rule of thumb, addicts or “junkies”, as they are referred to in movies and pop-culture, are usually dirty, messy and generally unpleasant to be in the vicinity of. Surely, that is all just fabricated movie nonsense right? While quite a lot of it is indeed added for dramatic effect, most of these […]

Chore. A word we describe doing something we don’t particularly enjoy. Taking out the trash, mowing the lawn, washing the dishes. These are things that must be done, but since we don’t enjoy them and do them with clenched teeth and visions of various activities you will do once said chores are done. So how […]

To quit a hardship is a decision made in haste in the majority of cases. A moment of weakness and doubt. Doubt in the treatment, doubt in future, doubt in themselves. A human being is a comfort creature, through and through, so no wonder that when subjected to some hardship, the majority turns to two […]