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Addiction & Recovery

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irisblue

(32,980 posts)
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 08:42 AM Mar 2019

Found this wandering around the internets [View all]

ellie (@holy_schnitt) Tweeted:
my sober brain: I'm independent, I don't need a man, I'm living my best life, being single? amazing. Iconic.
my drunk brain: *choking back tears* I just want to hold somebody's FUCKING hand





So many things to unpack here, I've been musing on & journaling about from this tweet & thought this last week; the loneliness, drinking to numb, then 'opening to' feelings, the suprising to me amount of alcohol in young female cultures, dropping so personal a thought for thousands and thousands. There is really amazing things floating around about addictive actions without seeing them as maladaptive function resonses and choices.
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