The addicted person has two fundamental characteristics: obsessed with their drug of choice and compulsion to consume. Also, your disease is characterized by self-deception that prevents him from accepting the sufferer and the denial of their problems and consequences that are related to their use. Do not know who is sick, so they come to believe is inferior to others and would be useless to try and live without drugs. He also believes that lives needs no help, or anyone could help. Perceives others and their world through a mind intoxicated, so the effort of the people around you does not penetrate in an objective and rational.
No human being intoxicated want to harm and hurt people you love most. The intention is to escape pain, manage their emotions, or even to drugs to feel “normal.” Obviously, the result is reversed: he suffers even more, their emotions are quite disturbed and feel “abnormal”. These people are victims of a powerful disease that affects millions of people worldwide and which can hardly be helped directly by family or friends.
For many alcoholics and drug addicts, the most difficult step was to admit they have this illness and accept help. When this happens, your recovery process starts. The easy way is to put in the hands of professionals who understand and share your experience to receive the tools and knowledge necessary to improve their quality of life. The hard way is to try to do it alone, by trying unsuccessfully again and again.
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