Oct
29
There were the good days and then there were the bad days
Filed Under Addiction, Alcohol Rehab, Alcohol Rehabilitation, Sobriety
During my 90 days at alcohol rehab I experienced more ups and downs than I could ever hope to include in a short write-up. There were the good days and there were the bad, but in the end they all added up to precisely what I came for: alcohol rehabilitation. Alcoholism had left me in a shattered state, without the hope or energy one needs in order to make any kind of life recovery. Three months ago I found myself in a state of total stagnation and despair; my alcohol addiction had led me to a point of desperate immobility where nothing existed outside my alcohol abuse. I was truly at the brink of death with nothing to call my own but a broken soul. I had no future. When I finally reached a point where I was prepared to make a serious change in order to save my life, I was presented with an opportunity to go to rehab, a safe place, where I could learn some tools for sobriety as well as for living a healthy life. I gained so much more. I have never before in my life had an opportunity to take three months for myself; a time to peel back the layers and walls of my inner and outer personality and to explore the many corridors and shadows that have helped to create the person I was and the person I am today.