The reality of being a person living in one day at a time recovery is that there are periods of our lives when we can live as people experiencing a frustrating aloneness. Such aloneness can happen to people living with mental health disorders and addictions. Even though we know that we live with an inextricable connection to other recovering people, and we know that we get to experience wellness, in all reality frustrating aloneness will shred away at the reality of our connection with what we get to understand as the other. It is a self-perpetuating disorder that reinforces the frustration of aloneness perpetuating the illusion of the aloneness of the self. Frustrating aloneness is one of the reoccurring adversities of living with any mental health disorder. Some of us wonder if our propensity to become addicts is our attempt to cope with our pains, our frustrations, and our already conceived aloneness. Some of us experience that living in one day at a time recovery makes life doable. We learn to reach out. Our views change. Our feelings of aloneness become our connection with others. We get to experience the reality of freedom and freedom of choice. We get to experience a reality in which we get to thrive and be happy. Reality becomes a gift. Peace.
