A Letter From Your Addiction

[Bigdaddy1313]

Hello All. I read this letter when I was in a detox center almost two years ago. It's a letter from a friend of all of us. It's from your addiction and to me it is very powerful. To me it shows that Addiction is like a real living, breathing demon hell bent on getting us to use. I hope people read this since it's going to be a b+$&h to re-write. Here goes:

Dear Friend,
I've come to visit once again. I love to see you suffer mentally, physically, spiritually, and socially. I want to have you restless so you can never relax. I want you jumpy, nervous and anxious. I want to make you agitated and irritable so everything and everybody makes you feel uncomfortable. I want you to be depressed and confused so that you can't think clearly or positively. I want to make you hate everybody especially yourself. I want your to feel guilty and remorseful for the things you've done in the past that you'll never be able to fix. I want to make you angry and hateful towards the world for the way it is and the way you are. I want you to feel sorry for yourself and blame everything but your addiction for the way things are. I want your to be deceitful and untrustworthy, and to manipulate and con as many people as possible. I want to make you paranoid for no reason at all and I want you to wake up in the middle of the night screaming for me. You know darn well you can't sleep without your medicine and I want you to wake up after dreaming of me and have a sick feeling in your stomach.

I want to be the first thing you think about in the morning and the last thing you think about when you go to sleep. If you go to sleep. I will be happy as can be if I kill you but I'm pretty content to just put you in the hospital or even better jail. Even if you go to jail I promise I will be waiting for you when you get out. I love to watch you as you slowly go insane and I love to cause chaos in your home and with your family. I especially love it when you choose me over your 3 little children and I think its funny when they cry because you haven't spent any time with them. I can't help but sneer and chuckle when you shiver and shake, when you freeze and sweat at the same time. I love when you wake up in the morning from a fitful sleep to find your sheets are drenched with sweat. It's amazing how much destruction I can do to your body and your eternal organs. It is really cool to watch as your brain gets damaged from another hit of your favorite substance.

The countless jobs you have sacrificed for me makes me feel so wanted and I have you to thank for feeling loved. I love how you avoid those most important to you your friends, your spouse and your children. I can not express my words of gratitude towards you for being so loyal to me. You have sacrificed all these beautiful things just out of devotion for me. Please don't despair my friend, for on me you can always depend. For after you have lost all things important to you, you can still depend on me to take even more. I look forward to the day that you take too much of your medicine of choice and you drift of and stop breathing. When that happens rest assured I will be ok because I have your kids and your family that I will happily move onto. In closing I will say I love you my friend and I know you love me. Faithfully Yours, Your Addiction & Drug of Choice.

[PinkStars07]

WOW......this is amazing.....Would you mind if I shared this on my post as well?  Of course I will credit you!  This is so powerful.

[leahlee18]

Wow
I want to cry after reading that.  It makes me angry because all of it is so true.  I will read this when I feel like going back, if I do.
Thank you posting!

[TikkiTT]

Thank you for posting this.    The most powerful and true thing I have ever read about addiction.    Makes me so glad to be rid of pills and I am going to print this out so I can keep it, and hopefully, share it with some other people that I know who are trying to quit, but struggling.

[liliansdream]

Very Powerful... I wish the world had some insight into what addiction is about.  I will definitly print this too and keep as a reminder..

thanks so much for sharing this.

liliansdream

[Chard78]

Thanks big daddy, this letter has SAVED MY LIFE AND FINALY STOPED MY ADDICTION! This letter is so true and touching, if you are really committed to stoping your addition...and read this letter I  garrantee you will break Down in some way. I don't care how hard or tough, (I thought I was) you think you are. Meaning your reputation, "you don't cry, been in the penetentary/jail " whatever.  I CRIED. I'll tell you this people, and quote me on this. "It takes a real MAN to cry." This letter should be passed out by EVERY REHAB IN THE WORLD! bigdaddy you should be known forever, in history for writing this. So powerful!

[Bigdaddy1313]

I'm really glad that a few people read this. It has played a key role in regards to my sobriety. I've said this before but this letter made addiction feel like it is a real living demon waiting for me to have a bad day or a huge fight with my wife. As powerful as this demon is I am so grateful that all of us have the tools to keep it in check. Unfortunately we will never be able to kill it but we definitely can keep it out of our lives. I appreciate all those out there who have been supportive of me. Who have gave me advice or just a pat on the back. We seek help when we are trying to get clean and once we reach that miracle we have the responsibility to help other who are just like us. God bless.

Chad, your post is totally awesome. Let the miracle of sobriety into your heart!

[knjfree10]

Awesome & sadly so true

[Chard78]

That is verypowerfull, touching...and real! Made me cry! I'm not poking fun either!  I don't cry!

[Cricketk92]

WOW!  That was so good to read!  Its so easy to forget how powerful this damn monster is!!!  That last paragraph really gets to me!  I gave up so much while I was using and lost so much!  I dont ever want to forget that!!!  Thanks for sharing this!!!

[Ashamedmama]

Wow! Thanks for that! The last couple of lines really got to me. "Moving on to my kids and family", the fear that this was going to kill me if I didn't stop. That has become my biggest motivation.

[atthebeach]

This has circulated other times.
It is very powerful, very real and most Certainly true.
I hope everybody reads it too!!!
Thanks big daddy.