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cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectic behavioral therapy—to this day some of the greatest treatments I’ve ever received.
Who would you be without your story? Who would you become?”
read somewhere that 90% of the thoughts we have every day are repetitions of the same thoughts we had the day before, and the day before that, and so on. We tell ourselves the same shit over and over each day and we wonder why we never change. Our thoughts stay the same, our habits stay the same, so our lives stay the same.
Anybody can be compliant for a certain period of time. In fact, drug addicts and alcoholics are masters at wearing masks and people-pleasing. But to be in a state of surrender takes humility, not a common trait for people of my kind. We get into trouble, swear to God we’ll never do it again, pray for help, and make what seem like iron-clad resolutions to our innermost selves and the rest of the world. And then the ego kicks in with its incredible ability to bypass experience and we are, yet again, drunk and high. Because deep down we never really wanted to change in the first place. I
