Addiction The Mask I Wear

Hi Everyone:
This blog is about masking your pain with self medicating. By that I mean using drugs or alcohol to avoid feeling the pain after a trauma. This happens often unfortunately. Sometimes it happens by accident. When we are on prescription medication it is easy to get addicted. When I was in the substance abuse field I took a survey of the women that came into the facility to deal with their addiction. I found 95 percent of the women that came in their had some kind of abuse issue. In my women's abuse group I found that 70 percent of them had never talked to anyone about it before the group. That is shocking. The moral of the story is self medicating is not the answer. We have to deal with our issues. Scarey as it may be. We can never give up. Abuse is not your fault. I have found that masking the pain is like putting a bandage on a gaping wound. Sooner or later we have to deal with the underline issues of what is really going on. We heal in community, please find your community and get some help. Your life is to valuable. Just food for thought.
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