Are You Truely Powerless OVER Your ADDICTION? This is the gremilin that keeps many in recovery up at night.

First, we must come to grips with what addiction is.

Second, the factors causeing addiction.

Many argue that no matter what your addiction (Narcotics, Alcohol, Weed, or even Glue) are all by-products of 3 things – Genetics, Environment, and choice.

Now I can’t say I completely understand all these factors; but I can definately relate to at least 2 of them.

For me the answer came one faithful day last week – maybe you will be able to relate. I was watching CSI: Miami (Best Show EVER!) I enjoyed that epesoide, which was perfectly fine my problem was that I continued to enjoy to episoides well into the weeee… hours of the early morning  (4:00 am) to be exact.

Now that wouldn’t be a problem, execpt for the fact that “try as I may”, I was POWERLESS to turn off the darn tube. What made it worse was that I had to wake up at 7:00am to go to work – a 9 hour shift (Not Good).The next day it was the same scenerio – then it hit me like a Larry, Curly, and Mo. Sledge hammer over the head. I had an addiction problem, I wasn’t an addiction because of the drugs, I was an addict because of my lifestyle habits - drugs was just the worse expression of that addiction.

Procrastion, endless hours watching the income reduction box(TV), my constant search for pleasure, my desire to never miss anything, to always go at fast and furious speeds, we all a symtom of my addiction. This became as evident as the sky is blue on that Saturday when my girl friend tried to change the channel from a game of GOLF…I pretty much bit her figures off to get the remote.

The funny thing is I don’t even like GOLF (Can you say addict – YEAH I sure fit that bill). If this sounds like you, I hate to be the one to break it to you but you’re an addict – by nature of your habits, not just the DRUGS.

Peace,

Thanks for letting me share.