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One of the hardest things about recovery is coming to terms with the fact that you can’t trust your brain anymore. In fact, you need to understand that your brain has become your own worst enemy.
“I see her every night,” Teddy says. “She sleeps under my bed so I can hear her singing.”
‘When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’
“I want to learn everything about you. I want to change my major to Mallory Quinn and learn as much as I can.”
Over several months, the drug had completely rewired my brain, hijacking more and more of my pain receptors, and now I needed OxyContin simply to exist. I couldn’t sleep, or eat, or focus in class. And no one warned me this was going to happen. No one told me to expect a struggle.
