Many people have paid a high price to find one day at a time recovery from concurrent disorders. To start we have paid a huge financial cost to realize we had no choice but to accept that we needed help. We simply couldn’t stop drinking or using when we had to stop. Some of us lost everything we had, which in some cases might have been fortunes in security. Some of us lost the friendship and love of people who we cared dearly for. That’s an awful loss. Some of us were destroying our physical health while also damaging our brains and our minds. Some of us lost any semblance of reality that is found in a sober mind and we could not develop a mature sense of inherent self dignity which is something we can find in the one day at a time recovery. We lost the reality of freedom of choice. One day at a time recovery is not an exclusive group of people. We have all paid dearly to be free. We know how to find it. Reach out for help to find out how to help yourself. We need to find and use professional, peer, and natural supports. This also includes taking medication as prescribed for some of us. We need to stop adding to the cost that we will pay if we don’t get the help we need to help ourselves by living in recovery one day at a time.
