Lara Kline
@Vocalizah · 5:00
When did you realize you or your friend/partner really had an addiction problem?
Hello, everybody. I just want to start by saying that, you know, talking about addiction of any kind is tough. It can be tough, it can be very liberating, but it can be very deep and it can be very painful. But this one's kind of meant to be uplifting. Obviously, I welcome any and all comments. I love talking about this
Mark Brent
@SerenityBombs · 3:37
And so in that process of working through it with others, going back and looking at past tape, so to speak, and looking at current situations and playing it forward, I started to realize, oh, you're an alcoholic. You thought you were a pothead, so you quit, but you're really an alcoholic. That's your thing. And I guess to sum it up, it's like I started to realize that when I drank, it didn't mean something bad was going to happen
Lara Kline
@Vocalizah · 4:41
But I do sometimes wish that I didn't think about it and that it wasn't all around me all the time. And people automatically think that what that means is that you're weak or you're going to fall into that again. That's not how I feel at all. I'm not tempted. But the habit is there. And I was a drinker and I was a smoker for more years than I wasn't. Habit is you can't just erase that completely
But because you're feeling guilt about it, that is what signifies that change is going to work, because you genuinely don't want to be addicted to alcohol. It's just if I was in your situation, what I would do is I would just weekly go to therapy, even by yourself with your husband?
Lara Kline
@Vocalizah · 4:19
But the dopamine and the serotonin and the lack thereof, the depression and wanting to feel something, I think we get stuck in cycles of life and then difficult times and doubt and worry. Yeah, it's very cyclic. And for me personally, there was no such thing. I mean, I wasn't drinking every single day, but I was thinking about drinking every single day. And I don't know how to do things in moderation that extends way beyond alcohol and drugs
giLs dogg
@giLsDogg1 · 4:20
And I felt like marijuana made me happy, which became addicting. Back in the day, the the social environment with marijuana was kind of like sketchy. People that dealt with marijuana were it was a negative environment, but I did like the positives that it gave me, which was just thinking about life in general, thinking about my life and the things that I could do and the dreams that I could have
