Post by caressa on Jan 23, 2012 6:32:00 GMT -5
Recently met a person who told me that they had been using pot since they were 14 years old. The person said that they were not addicted. the person will never see 50 again.
I was never in doubt about being an addict, some is good more is better in everything that I did and can still do. Whether it is the chocolate chip honey bran muffins I just made or that one more game of Bejeweled2 that I feel I must play. I have never had the concept of just one of anything in my life.
I can't remember if I asked this person if they could go 3 days without smoking it. I think the reply would have been, "Why should I? I am not addicted."
I just shared my esh, and just let him stay in what I saw as his own denial. Yet it is up to him to day whether he is an addict or not.
Learned very early in recovery, the substance is but a symptom of my disease. The problem is me.
I was never in doubt about being an addict, some is good more is better in everything that I did and can still do. Whether it is the chocolate chip honey bran muffins I just made or that one more game of Bejeweled2 that I feel I must play. I have never had the concept of just one of anything in my life.
I can't remember if I asked this person if they could go 3 days without smoking it. I think the reply would have been, "Why should I? I am not addicted."
I just shared my esh, and just let him stay in what I saw as his own denial. Yet it is up to him to day whether he is an addict or not.
Learned very early in recovery, the substance is but a symptom of my disease. The problem is me.
Attachments:
. I will be back looking for Lin and others.