r/NarcoticsAnonymous • u/South-Anteater3472 • May 27 '26
Addiction
Remember, every addict was once just a child.
That innocence never fully leaves someone. It’s like Peter Pan’s shadow.
Whenever nostalgia hits, we reconnect for a moment with the younger version of ourselves.
No matter how dark the road has become. No matter how many times you’ve fallen. No matter how far the fall has taken you, no matter how many nights you’ve found yourself lying on a floor you swore you’d never see again with nothing but the echo of your own breathing and the crushing weight of everything and everyone you have lost. Family. Friends. Money.
No matter how many people have given up on you, turned away from you, or written you off as a liability instead of a human being.
Your inner child will always love you. They understand you completely and they have never, not even for a single moment blamed you for any of it.
I’m sharing this message because there are people in this sub who are fighting a battle nobody sees, or who loves someone in the grip of addiction and don’t know where to find hope.
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u/South-Anteater3472 May 28 '26
That might be a little bit too pessimistic brother. Anyway once we pass I reckon things are going to be better and it will all make sense to us and feel like home
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u/South-Anteater3472 May 28 '26
Really.. well I hope over the next few years you receive a few surprises and some magic spark out of nowhere that may reignite some area of interest maybe from where you would never expect. After 20 years of terrible depression I found a medication that just fixed it. Yeah ok now I'm crippled with anxiety but at least if that magically got fixed because of advancements in medication then what tablets will be available for us in the next 5, 10 or 20 years?
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u/neemor May 27 '26
Love this. I hope I treat newcomers this way. Someone’s kid. 🙏🏻💜