unknownusername replied to your post “periodic check in: still not ready for recovery narratives they’re....”
eh i've been through it n i'm mostly not there for them either for a lot of reasons, fwiw
that’s actually. incredibly, incredibly comforting to hear? bc like. it’s hard to talk abt calmly (not that you have to be calm in critiques, but) and it’s hard to tell whether i’m just Stubbornly Clinging To My Own Addictions or if there’s something fucked in the narrative? bc trying to explain the problems i have with them is hard, & even harder to do when trying to make clear i’m not like opposed to the recovery part but just how fucking ignorant people are of addiction problems generally and why someone would try and give it up and how that would affect them.
so many stories are “family/friends bully addict into painful recovery and Addiction Is Just Bad” w/o ever really examining why that person would be an addict or the actual feasibility of quitting whatever it is. because recovery is hard and not always the immediately wise choice bc of varying withdrawal effects etc, it’s a complex thing and it never gets complex treatment. i’ve never seen one i really liked.
