Self Inflicted: Recovery - Redemption - and Life - Episode 2 - Louie's Story Part 2
Self Inflicted Recovery, Redemption, and Life (a podcast on addiction and recovery)
Release Date: 05/15/2019
Self Inflicted Recovery, Redemption, and Life (a podcast on addiction and recovery)
In this episode I discuss how my emotions and sobriety intertwined... and how eventually my emotions (and what I perceived as happiness) was determined by my use...
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While using I would swing between suspecting/knowing I had a problem. and denying/rationalizing my behavior.
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In this episode I have a discussion with Anthony. He struggled with Marijuana, Alcohol, and other drugs throughout the years.
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I used to get in trouble with the law... but that stopped in my early to mid 20's...
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This is the exciting conclusion of Paul's story...
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In Part 1 of Paul's story... he covers how his love /hate relationship with marijuana began around 6th grade... and he discusses in his own voice how things progressed until he was 21-22 years old and in college.
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As an addict... Louie realizes that a lot of his behavior could be viewed as obsessive or perhaps insane by people who don't struggle with addiction.
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When I was in rehab... one of the activities I did at the end was write a letter to myself about what was different and how things had changed after being sober for the last 5-6 weeks.
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I knew growing up that addiction ran in the family.
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In this episode I discuss how my emotions influenced my addiction... and how that played a role in my recovery...
info_outlineI started the path to sobriety almost 4 years ago... after 17 years of abusing various drugs and alcohol.
When I started working on getting clean... literally half my life had been lived in a haze of addiction... it had been spent constantly feeding the fire that seemingly could never be extinguished.
Learned a lot of things, and part of this journey is helping others.
This is part 2 of my story (takes you through my experience getting actual help from professionals and not going it alone).
Hopefully it helps.
Louie