Many people living in one day at a time recovery believe in first hand knowledge. We might have difficulty taking advice from someone who hasn’t lived with our disorders. Sometimes these views are valid. Sometimes these views are absurd. Often ego makes it so that we can have difficulty in trusting direction from others who haven’t lived our experience. Just because we bullshitted a therapist it doesn’t mean a therapist couldn’t adequately help us, and that they failed us. It means we conned ourselves out of a possibility of being helped. Our reality is if we want to live in recovery we have to be responsible. Especially for our own recovery. We need to understand that the so called normal people can give us direction to help us cope with our disorders and to live in one day at a time recovery. Another reality is when we have been in recovery for a while we know when our ego is being an ego and our minds do open up a bit. It’s either a big step step in trust or we are first-handedly experiencing the gift of desperation. We’ll know which it is. Peace.
