Recovery takes time

Hi

I was reflecting on the changes in my life since I last played an online game in earnest. I realised that it was really that moment (25th Dec 2011) when I began a meaningful change. Preceding that I had many relapses over about 3 years, I was full of good intentions and I learned from the relapses; they brought me to that moment on xmas day. 

The point here is it’s nearly June 2015; it’s taken that long to sweat off the toxins of a lifetime of addictions. My addiction to World of Warcraft was the last in a long line of them stretching back to the late 1980s. I am clean now and my sobriety is strong. I am writing this because when I was looking back over the last three and a half years and all the events (most of them ugly and painful) that were meaningful and character building, it was the fury at the game which marked the tipping moment, that final straw that ‘broke the camel’s back’.

 In early 2014 the people here at OLGANON were a profound support. I don’t come on now much, but I never forget the millions out there dealing with this. I am in a far better place than I have been for most of my 45 years of life. As the literature says, I am living life “on ITS terms” and it’s often brutal, and always intense, but its authentic, real and meaningful. 

Sending love to all of you here and people everywhere dealing with addiction and those that don’t realise they’re addicted.

Love

Adrian