Compassion in Addiction Recovery

In my active drug addiction it was all about me. There were so many things that I lacked such as empathy, sympathy, values, morals, and the list goes on. I was possessed by something I couldn’t control, addiction.  I’ve walked right past people who were suffering and wouldn’t blink twice.  My family was torn apart, but that wouldn’t stop me from creating the same chaos over and over again.  I thought that my lack of feelings, my lack of empathy, and my selfishness was the way to live because people I surrounded myself with lived the same way.  I wouldn’t say I was a sociopath, but I definitely had sociopathic tendencies.  I couldn’t see compassion anywhere in my future.  When I finally checked myself in to South Orange County Detox and Treatment it took me over a year to get rid of that false-self. I finally found the person whom I left behind over a decade ago.  I slowly started feeling compassion for others. I’m far from perfect, but I’m no longer one of the problems in this world rather I’m part of the solution.  I could have never accomplished this without my sobriety, and I couldn’t have achieved true sobriety without South Orange County Detox and Treatment.