Masking The Pain

Hi Everyone:
I write these blogs from personal and professional experience. Today's blog is about masking the pain of abuse and trauma. This goes out to the Vet's that are reading my blog as well. What does that mean? It means just this. Not being able to handle the pain of trauma, failure, abuse, overwhelm and many other emotions and areas of our lives that make us feel helpless and hopeless. Sometimes we turn to substance abuse to be able to cope. This seems at the time as a way to be able to handle our daily lives. One thing you need to understand if you are using alcohol that is already a depressant. So if you are suffering from depression you are giving your mind and body a double whammy. It helps temporarily but sooner or latter you are going to have to deal with what is really going on with you. I have worked in a substance abuse program where the people on my case load were heroin addicts. This is the basic scenario They use to try to keep from dealing with the daily problems and sometimes trauma that they are enduring. .They get hooked. The don't see a way out. The problem is at that point is that they now have a chemical dependency and have to deal with what is really going on. to be able to have their lives back. The metafor I use is trying to climb Mt Everest with a 100 LB back pack on.your back. We get into a comfort zone, bad as it may be, we tend to want to unconsciously stay in the environment we are familiar with. To venture out of that comfort zone can be a very frightening thing. You may think, will other people judge me. Or maybe the fear of failure or even the fear of success is to over whelming for you.What if I fail, what if I make it and something happens that I fail after coming so close to happiness. The fact is you have to face this and start to face your demons to be able to recover your life. How do you do that. In the next few blogs I will get into those steps and give you some advice on how I did it. I had to face my demons to be able to get any kind of life back

Till next time.
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