Those With Drink and Drug Addictions Need Connection

Connections

People with drug and drink problems often also have mental health issues and live in a catch-22 situation where they become disconnected from their social community, often they begin using a drug and find themselves in a new smaller community that they do not initially see as cut off. Later once their problem turns into addiction many find themselves extricated from their original communities. Their loved ones don't know how to help and support them, when they see them in such a muddle living in desperation it breaks their hearts. This often leads to a separation in what were once very strong loving bonds. Imagine the strings to your mother's apron being cut. Imagine losing your Dad, imagine watching your siblings and close friends moving on with their lives whilst you are caught in a rut, feet deep in mud, sinking slowly further down and further away from them all. When you started to sink some of them were on the sidelines and made many attempts to help you, offering you an olive branch to grab hold of, but every time you tried to take hold you lost your grip. Then slowly with time those on the sidelines stepped away. Left in a deep dark hole alone, you didn't have a friend and you no longer felt like you had a family. So how were you supposed to get out? The only way some manage is by what seems like an endless onslaught of trying and trying, with no support. Linked to some local drugs group who treat you like a worthless piece of shit, having to be humiliated going to collect and drink methadone at your local pharmacy everyday in front of strangers. Stigmatised and ostracized outed and left, all you can do is keep trying. Not many have success and when you think about it that is not surprising.