The Truth About Why Addiction Is So Hard to Break #addiction #shorts #recovery

The ugly truth about addiction is that it is a cold, cruel, feelingless monster that only wants to survive and believes that any threat, any suggestion of compromise to what it wants is a mortal threat which has to be countered with severe force. You cannot reason with addiction. You cannot bargain with it. You cannot plead. You cannot use love. You cannot use guilt. You cannot appeal with moral arguments. It's a machine. It only knows one thing which is I need to check out and be numb. If you have a loved one who's struggling with addiction, I just want to let you know it's not that you're not good enough. It's not that you're not loving enough. It's not that you haven't been tough enough. It's not that you haven't begged enough, pleaded enough, bargained enough, threatened enough. I'm sure you've done all of that and way more than what you could. This is something that will consume everyone and everything in its path. And that's why really and truly so many people who come up against this monster realize that you can't fight it with human power. It's not about figuring out better ways of negotiating around it or bargaining with it. It's really about absolutely surrendering to a power greater than ourselves and allowing that power into our lives because we cannot do it.