What's Keeping Us

[roverl0616]

One of the biggest things that keeps all of us from joining recovery has nothing to do with recovery at all, but has to do with what others will think of us if they know we're in recovery. This problem of ours belongs to us, not them and to base our decision for getting help with it on what others might think about us is us selling ourselves short. Many of us have made this mistake and later on wished we hadn't because of depriving ourselves of that help because this problem only gets worse. We've done this to please others and most of the time it really didn't matter to them one way or another if we were in recovery or not, and many times they are suffering like us from having this problem as well. None of this makes any sense for any of us to do this and many of us will die from having this problem because we have done this. We all join recovery for only one reason and that reason is to save ourselves from having this problem, and until we're willing to do this for ourselves, regardless of what others may think of us, then none of us will be able to get the help that we all sorely need with having this problem.