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California Clean and a Brief Peek at Reality
Denial, that old Egyptian river. It is the principle symptom of active addiction. This is why addiction is often described as the disease...
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Denial, that old Egyptian river. It is the principle symptom of active addiction. This is why addiction is often described as the disease... -
I posted the following on Facebook on December 31st, 2022: 2023, huh? Well, may the forces of stupid become self-aware, the forces of ... -
The Russian optimist says: "Things cannot get any worse." The addict optimist says: "Yes they can!" It is s...
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The fact is that recovery from addiction requires a large number of changes in both thinking and acting. The programs that have been successful have found that the repetion of certain truisms works better than hoping for enlightenment. "One day at a time," for one example. The disease insists that the addicted take the entire world all on at the same time because failure is assured, and failure is the path back to using. If you want to recover, you hang onto that one day at a time because, platitude or not, it works.
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