Untangling the Web of Alcohol Abuse & ADHD

I could not connect the person who hid alcohol in closets to who I imagined I was.

An alcoholic who is in the throes of addiction believes

Years ago, in what now seems like another life, a friend said to me, “Your entire existence can be reduced to a three-part cycle. One: Get fucked up. Two: Fuck up. Three: Damage control.” We hadn’t known each other very long, probably two months at most, and yet he had already witnessed enough of my regular blackout drinking, just one of the more o

addiction is a disconnection from yourself, and a disconnection from yourself is born of something present that you (think) you can’t face.

The real payoff of any addiction, whether a substance or a superhuman level of responsibility, is that it anesthetizes you to your deep doubts about your own worth and lovability. Love feels very conditional to any addict, and stressaholics use very busy and overcommitted lives as a subconscious way of finally being good enough. But ultimately, you

The problem here is the inherent belief that alcohol is EVERYTHING and you’d be making a giant sacrifice in giving it up. You wouldn’t be. In fact, you’d be gaining so much and losing nothing. It was life-changing to fully know the insidious slippery-slope nature of addiction, that after doing something for so long, you’re more inclined to get addi