Awakening From A Daze

Grief- Word of the Week

I have noticed that I deal with grief in the same way that I deal with most of my problems; In addiction, in drowned my feelings with drugs which stuffs the emotions down and keeps them stored away and hidden so I don’t have to experience them. When I do this though, I need to keep using more and more drugs to keep the pain from coming back up. Sometimes we go through our lives in a daze convincing ourselves that this is how life should feel, and in my life, I did this for years and I escaped everything, even the ability to find joy in things. When I first decided to get clean and sober, the pain from withdrawal didn’t let me focus on any emotional pain. After I got through detox, however, the painful emotions from grief that I had stuffed for all that time started to come up.  This is when I had to make a choice to follow through with facing truth or staying in sorrow. South Orange County Detox and Treatment has helped me identify my emotional baggage and also helped me along the way as I worked through these issues. I am forever grateful to South Orange County Detox and Treatment because if they weren’t there for me I might not be here.