Daily Recovery Blog
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
"Addiction is like wrestling a gorilla. You don't stop when you
get tired; you stop when the gorilla gets tired." - Boxer Guy
INSANITY IS REPEATING THE SAME MISTAKES EXPECTING DIFFERENT
RESULTSI knew that using drugs had done damage to my spirit. I was doing
things to get high that I did not want to do. I still didn't want
to consider myself insane though. I felt like I would be okay if
I could just stop using in a particular way. It was what I call
today "junkie mentality". My mind approved of a lot of things
when I was using, that I know today were insane. My denial was
thick. When I finally realized I could not stop using, the word
insanity took on a whole new meaning. Prior to that moment of
clarity, I had always believed insane people were in straight
jackets at the happy farm. When my sponsor asked me "would it be
insane for you to use drugs knowing what they did to you?" That
statement haunted me. Was I really insane? Even I could see that
an addict like me should not use. If you are an addict, and you
start using again, be careful. For the first time in my life, the
longing inside my heart reached my brain. It would be insane for
an addict like me to use drugs. My broken spirit accepted the
fact that insanity truly is repeating the same mistakes expecting
different results.
“Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in
struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into
a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make
you laugh because it becomes absurd.” - David Lynch
Saturday Sep 13, 2025
"Suit up and show up. Don't shoot up and throw up"- Art the
junkie that don't do dope no more
DON'T USE NO MATTER WHATI have found this to be what I call the bottom line. I remember a
man I met when he first got into recovery. The first year of his
recovery, his life was in turmoil. He is a perfect example of
"don't use no matter what". As I recall, he went through
bankruptcy, his wife divorced him, he lost his home and business,
and his daughter's boyfriend overdosed and died in his arms that
first year. I learned by watching him that there is no reason to
use. Recovery from addiction is based upon complete abstinence
from mood or mind altering drugs. Some days, just not using is
the best that I can manage. It is not the best way to have
personal program of recovery. It is the only way. There is
nothing in my life so bad that using drugs won't make it worse.
"Every temptation is an opportunity to triumph over evil" - Marc
Williams
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