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Codependency
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It was becoming evident to me that addiction is addiction is addiction—that all the ways in which people binge, hoard, numb, act out, control, and self-medicate are just equally desperate attempts to cover up the same deep spiritual pain. In fact, I don’t think there’s a single room in the twelve-step universe that I don’t relate to or qualify for, at some level or another, because my anxious mind never stops looking for ways to escape its host of human dilemmas.
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― All the Way to the River
― All the Way to the River
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My mind was spinning around this inflaming and infuriating thought: Why can’t I be a normal person who does normal things like normal people?
That’s when I heard Rayya’s voice.
“Because you aren’t normal, babe,” she said. “You’re an addict. And addicts can’t do normal things like normal people.
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― All the Way to the River
― All the Way to the River
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