Bruno J. Entering Recovery - Part 1 of 2

Busting Addiction and Its Myths

In this podcast, Bruno J. tells the story of how he changed jobs, geography and women in pursuit of satisfying his desires.
We learn that:

1. The alcoholic does not realise that they are on a slippery slope for a very long time and assumes their chaotic life is just the way it is.
2. There is a common paradox of high ambitions riding alongside irrational behaviour. Ultimately, sick thinking and destructive behaviour serve to sabotage those ambitions.
3. Changing jobs, geography and sex partners do nothing to solve a problem that the addict may not yet know exists, but he's running, nonetheless.
4. An active alcoholic as Bruno J. was at the time is not governed by any values. He is governed by fear and compulsion, by his instincts, appetites and whims. It's not until he surrenders his old ways of thinking that he can escape the tyranny of his disease.