Addicted Like Me Quotes

“I learned early on how to act normal even when crazy things were happening.”
― Karen Franklin, Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery

“I felt shaky and scared for the first few months of my sobriety. Those couple of glasses of wine I was occasionally drinking before this time had just seemed enough to take the edge off. The knowledge I could no longer medicate myself in that way was frightening, but the others in the meeting told me to just keep coming back. As I continued to attend, I started to feel hopeful.”
― Karen Franklin, Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery

“The twelve-step group was for kids who wanted to get sober permanently and learn to live a happy life.”
― Karen Franklin, Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery

“The other kids in his adolescent drug group badmouthed the twelve-step program. They said it was a cult. This was because in the twelve-step program addicts weren’t allowed any slack.”
― Karen Franklin, Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery

“with her daughter, Lindsey,”
― Karen Franklin, Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery

“called my best friend, Shirley, who was back in Phoenix,”
― Karen Franklin, Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery

“Lauren promised that she wouldn’t run away again if I would only let her come home. I wanted to believe her, so I asked the psychologist what we should do. She said that taking Lauren home would be a bad idea. It was incredibly hard to tell Lauren that she needed to stay, but I did, and immediately this changed her whole demeanor. She became angry and sullen, the exact same Lauren I was used to seeing at home, which broke my heart. Before being discharged,”
― Karen Franklin, Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery

“I had given in so many times in the past when she had demanded and negotiated things, but not this time. I suddenly realized I had turned a corner as I began to drive.”
― Karen Franklin, Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery

“The only way I could be happy was to self-medicate, so that is what I did. In recovery work for this habit, as an adult, I began to put the stories of my father and grandfather together with my behaviors. Growing up affected by their alcoholism molded my character in their likenesses and also taught me to make the decision they had both made to deny the sensation of pain.”
― Karen Franklin, Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery

“We continued on for a few years together, but the marriage could not survive.”
― Karen Franklin, Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery

“threw myself into accounting studies and graduated with a 3.6 grade point average, though my marriage”
― Karen Franklin, Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery

“Our son Jason was born”
― Karen Franklin, Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery

“even after Jason’s death.”
― Karen Franklin, Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery

“What I began to understand about the stories of my father and my grandfather is that their stories were about detachment. Each man detached from his emotions by using alcohol to numb the pain caused by living.”
― Karen Franklin, Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery

“mom’s family had distanced themselves from us by then, due to their own grief, and I felt so isolated by this distance. That’s when the addictions began. I recall starting to eat when I wasn’t hungry to try and feel better, which seemed to numb the pain.”
― Karen Franklin, Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery

“think it is interesting that the eating started in the afternoon, shortly before my father was due home from work, and continued on through the evening after he arrived home.”
― Karen Franklin, Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery