Comments on: WHAT IS AN ADDICTION???? http://cleanandsober.today.com/2008/10/28/what-is-an-addiction/ Managing Our Addictions One Day At A Time Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:18:45 +0000 http://www.today.com/version-2.3.1 By: Kelly http://cleanandsober.today.com/2008/10/28/what-is-an-addiction/#comment-3 Kelly Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:32:33 +0000 http://cleanandsober.today.com/2008/10/28/what-is-an-addiction/#comment-3 Cathy, this is such a great idea for a blog. Most people have been touched in some way by addiction. I do not have an addictive personality, thankfully. Being Irish, I have my share of the stereotypical family members, but more than that I have 2 cousins are very serious Heroin addicts and who lost their mother to an overdose years ago. This might be a question to tackle in a later post, but what constitutes hitting rock bottom? I know it's different for everyone, but one cousin has been in places that we all have thought, this HAS to be it. But then it takes hold and he is back at it. The other, thankfully, has learned what he needs to do. He slips up once in a while, but he gets back on track immediately. The other just keeps hitting what we all would think would be rock bottom. So I am curious what makes it rock bottom. If there is a way to explain it to someone else. Thanks! ~Kelly http://www.30somethingandsearching.today.com/ Cathy, this is such a great idea for a blog. Most people have been touched in some way by addiction. I do not have an addictive personality, thankfully. Being Irish, I have my share of the stereotypical family members, but more than that I have 2 cousins are very serious Heroin addicts and who lost their mother to an overdose years ago.

This might be a question to tackle in a later post, but what constitutes hitting rock bottom? I know it’s different for everyone, but one cousin has been in places that we all have thought, this HAS to be it. But then it takes hold and he is back at it. The other, thankfully, has learned what he needs to do. He slips up once in a while, but he gets back on track immediately. The other just keeps hitting what we all would think would be rock bottom.

So I am curious what makes it rock bottom. If there is a way to explain it to someone else.

Thanks!
~Kelly
http://www.30somethingandsearching.today.com/

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