Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too self-absorbed to want much company. Others' experiences did help with my emotional struggle.
A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white. - David Sheff
A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.
- David Sheff
How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them. - David Sheff
How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.
How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person? - David Sheff
How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?
Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating… - David Sheff
Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating…
At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There is no similar relief for pa… - David Sheff
At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There is no similar relief for pa…
I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry. - David Sheff
I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry.
If you subscribe to the idea that # addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children - paranoid, anxious, bruised, tremul… - David Sheff
If you subscribe to the idea that # addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children - paranoid, anxious, bruised, tremul…
We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know. - David Sheff
We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.
An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it. - David Sheff
An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.
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