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Dawson's Blog
Here are this week’s Top 3 Comments of the Week!!
Comment on Dawson’s latest blog and check back next week to see if yours has been chosen as a Top Comment of the Week!
- “I too am a recovering addict. I went into my first drug rehab when I was 13 years old. Stayed clean by the grace of God for 5 years, but when I was 18 I stopped going to church, lost connections and started hanging out with the wrong people one thing lead to another and before I knew it I was getting high all day every day, seriously as soon as I woke up I got high, I got high every opportunity I could throughout the day and before I went to bed. For me, getting high was so I did not have to feel anymore. It was an escape for a little bit everything was okay. I now have 10 months and 27 days clean, but its often a struggle because i am not used to feeling these feelings. It's unfamiliar and it's hard.” - Kimberly
- “At first, my addiction was a choice that I made. Growing up, I wasn't given the priveledge of making choices for myself. I've suffered physical, emotion, and sexual abuse all of my life. To be given the choice to drink or have sex brought me comfort. I could recieve comfort and relief at any moment in the day. It was something that I could control. Now that I've started, it is too painful to stop. It's no longer a choice, but something that I can't control. I feel ashamed but I have no where to go. I am lost. Even if I conquer my addiction, it would then go back to being abuse. Whether I choose to do it or not...it WILL happen...one way or the other.” - Sarah
- “Hey Dawson, I heard your program for the first time tonight (7.29.07), I am a Recovering Alcoholic. I have been sober for almost 2 yrs .. Sept 3rd Aniversary Date. I think what you are doing is absolutely great. What I would like to tell your listener's is to trust people, trust in yourselves. Just by them writing in or calling in they have taken a HUGE step towards getting help. To get help you need to ask for it. That was my biggest problem was asking for and accepting help. Your question for this blog is "Addiction, Why?" Wow, thats a tough question. I come from a family of alcoholics .. worstly they are not in any recovery. I grew accustom to alcohol everywhere I looked. So it came easy for me to justify my useage. I really didnt start drinking until a fairly late age in comparison to most people I went to school with and/or hung out with. At first drinking was just having fun with my friends, then it became "get drunk to celebrate, get drunk to mourn, get drunk to feel better etc etc etc" until finally it gets to "drink to survive" to function. I lost my Dad in Sept of '97, he had Diabetes, Heart Disease and Liver Cirosis. His first heart attack was at age 40 .. second at 48, that one killed him. The last time I saw him he looked like he was 20 yrs older than he was. He had just drank himself ill, when he died, ironiclly I did just the same thing. So, to answer the original question, I drank to live .. I lived to drink. I drank to feel good, I drank to not feel at all. I used it to numb my feelings about, my life, my relationships and the mourning of the people I lost in life. I used it to escape from the reality that I was afraid to face and deal with. I now love living life sober. Thanks for giving all of us a safe place to talk and to get some sound advice.” - Shawn
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