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Addiction is a brain disease that, through a series of biochemical mechanisms resulting from repeated behaviors, creates an overwhelming, animalistic urge as pressing and intense as the bursting bladder.

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Recovery isn’t linear. Recovery doesn’t have one magical formula that can apply to the multitude of unique circumstances each person may encounter. Recovery is about doing the best we can with what we have at the time.

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Recovery is a huge word. It carries so much weight, so much responsibility.

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Maybe you’ve seen it, or maybe you’ve been in it: the relationship that’s dramatic, explosive, unhealthy… and completely irresistible.

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If this broke me, that would be okay too. I’ve been broken over less.

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I’m not the sick girl anymore… but then again, I’ll never be the fully recovered girl either. So, what do I do with that?

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Celebrated annually every September, Recovery Month aims to teach Americans that treatment programs and mental health services can help those with drug addictions and substance use disorders to live healthy and rewarding lives.

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In our relationships and interactions with ourselves and others, we see what we want to see.

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The moment we accept that we will only ever tread water is the same moment we cease to dream about being able to swim across the lake.

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The day I was free from you was the day I realized I am enough, more than enough, all by myself.