#recovery

Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill. ↗

— Irene Tomkinson

#disease #recovery #family

Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#hope #inspirational #recovery #family

I am evolving from being an animal,' he said. 'But it is going very, very slowly. Sometime I try to cry and laugh like other people, just to see if it feels like anything. Yet tears don't come. Laughter doesn't come. ↗

— Blaine Harden

#recovery #freedom

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through. ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

#recovery #life

Lumani had never managed a failed delivery because, in the end, no matter how skilled or how hard they fought back, pressure applied in the right places caused even the strongest men to fracture. But this one? He'd watched her. Studied her. Observed what maybe even Uncle, the reader of people, had missed. This one was already fractured, and the lines between her broken pieces were not fissures but scar material stronger than whatever had once filled those spaces. ↗

— Taylor Stevens

#damaged #fight-back #fissure #fracture #healing

Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don't stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you'll never know true happiness until someone or something pulls you back out of that river--and you'll never believe it until you realize it was you, yourself who saved you. ↗

— Alysha Speer

#depression-quotes #endure #happiness #life #recovery

You cannot make yourself have a flashback, nor will you have one unless you are emotionally ready to remember something. Once remembered, the memory can help you to face more of the truth. You can then express your pent-up feelings about the memory and continue on your path to recovery. Think of the flashback as a clue to the next piece of work. No matter how painful, try to view it as a positive indication that you are now ready and willing to remember. ↗

— Beverly Engel

#emotions #flashback #healing #innocence #memory

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive. ↗

— Gail Caldwell

#hope #loss #recovery #death

Spurred by Amy’s death I’ve tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself. ↗

— Russell Brand

#amy-winehouse #drug-addiction #recovery #death

In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions. ↗

— Laurie Matthew

#child-abuse #childabuse #childhood-abuse #crime #death