25/08/2025
For every person caught in addiction, up to 72 other people are affected or impacted by that 1 persons addiction.
Addictions impacts families and loved ones:
โ Addiction places immense stress on supporters/loved ones, causing them to experience various degrees of unmanageability in their own lives.
โ Supporters adopt maladaptive coping mechanisms of their own and end up
becoming an integral part of the disordered system.
โ Supporters require their own program of recovery to heal from trauma and to
free themselves from self-defeating behaviors such as co-dependency, reactivity,
self-neglect and enabling.
๐๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ง ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ญ.
This is Cheryl's story of recovery as a supporter:
