What hurts the most is I thought I could trust you. You told me that you were a part of normal life. In just one year of listening to you, my mind was utterly consumed with urges to use…every-single-day. But at the time, it felt like you were a coping strategy that made sense. I will also apologize to those whom I have hurt because of how you influenced me.
A Goodbye Letter to My Drug Addiction
- You will get a job working as an Addiction Peer Support Specialist at Pathways offering support for the same treatment program you attended.
- There were plenty of times when I believed things were starting to look up.
- The elders of the church can anoint you, not because anointing oil is magical, but because anointing is a way for you to feel the healing balm of Christ who surrounds you.
- You took almost everything away from me.
- Even though I had no idea my husband was actively using drugs, I had become sick and insane without knowing it.
First, it models that recovery is an inside job and that everyone must take responsibility for their own recovery. Second, it keeps families healthy enough that they can offer support — emotional, spiritual, and financial — when their addicted loved one turns toward recovery. Without recovery, family members have only their resentment and their own depletion to offer. Without working their own program of recovery, the family’s cupboard becomes bare when it comes to compassion. You see, I am so much more than just another person risking their life through drug abuse, and I will not be a statistic.
A Heartfelt Letter for your Loved One in Recovery
- Watching your loved one struggle with substance abuse is hard, but our nationwide addiction treatment centers want to offer our support.
- But not everyone who experiences such adversities becomes addicted to alcohol or other drugs.
- You will find sinful laughter of a gun being pointed at you and show no fear for the consequences of your actions as if you own the world and nothing bad will ever happen.
- You will go through treatment and realize that we are not alone.
- And to have decided not to find ways to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives despite the sorrow of a lost loved one would have extended the catastrophe.
You don’t stop when we are shaking, physically withdrawing from your chemicals. You don’t stop when we try to take our own lives, because it seemed that suicide was the only solution to this never-ending insanity. While they may have hurt you, you still love them, and it is because you love them that you want them to get better. Let them know how much they matter to you and why they are important to you. This positivity and support may prompt them to finally get help because they know that you are by their side. No one wants to have a letter trashing them.
Guide: Writing a Goodbye Letter to Addiction
I have no doubt from observing you that you hated every day you used substances. I can see how your life was out of control, spiraling into a pit of hurt and despair. You became so lost that the helping hands of others could not even be letter to my addiction grasped.
Don’t go! We can help.
Even though I had no idea my husband was actively using drugs, I had become sick and insane without knowing it. I needed to take time and deal with myself, not him. And now, I make sure I make the time to take care of myself, which is the best thing I can do. I love to help you give up and feel hopeless. When you can’t feel anything at all, that is my true gratification. And all that I ask from you is long term suffering and lonely despair.
- You constantly blocked me from doing any of the things I wanted to do.
- When you first came into my life, I believed that you would help me ease all the pain I was going through.
- I am a human with defects just as you are, but do know I am well aware of when I put Al-Anon into practice and when I don’t.
- When my father died, I felt terrible pain and remorse.
- I hit some of the lowest points in my life, and I now realize that I am worth more.
Though it can be more common with one who is new in recovery, there are many individuals who relapse after years and years of living a clean and sober life. Understand that loving others and serving others outside of you is not a punishment or reflection of resentment. It is a form of respect for myself, for us as a couple, and for the family disease of addiction. I am a human with defects just as you are, but do know I am well aware of when I put Al-Anon into practice and when I don’t. You need not analyze my recovery process or judge it because you, my dear addict, are powerless over me, too.
There are several ways to go about writing a letter to an addict; these letters may have different motivations. One common letter to an addict is an impact letter. An impact letter explains how a person’s addiction has affected others. This format may be used in an addiction intervention to start the family healing process and prompt the addict to get help. When the addict hears how their substance abuse has negatively impacted several of their loved ones, it can be an eye-opening experience that finally convinces them that they should stop.
