{"id":7421,"date":"2020-09-11T04:48:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T04:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brujulasm.com\/post\/letter-from-patient-in-addiction-treatment\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T03:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T03:02:05","slug":"letter-from-patient-in-addiction-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brujulasm.com\/en\/post\/letter-from-patient-in-addiction-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from patient in addiction treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Girardota, September 3, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is very pleasing\ngreet you and share with you a little bit of my recovery process and in\nthe path of a recovering addict, who I was and who I am becoming.\nconverting&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My addiction\nwas killing me and I have gradually freed myself from the obsession with drugs and\ncompulsion to consume, my life is changing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was a person\naimless, without direction, without strength, without purpose or reason to live, my life had very\nlittle importance or meaning, the only thing that mattered to me was the next dose.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shape of my\naddiction distorted my feelings, my motivations, my life project\nI once had, to the affection for the people I love and who love me and my\nbehavior itself.  &nbsp;This force of\ndestruction I have gradually replaced it with a path of spirituality.\nand self-knowledge.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My recovery\ndoes not mean to be clean, but to recover that strength, to get rid of habits.\nnegative behaviors and wrong rituals. Recognize the meaning and\nmeaning of my addiction.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try to\nto become a new person with the desire to contribute as much as possible to my family, to my family, to\nsociety, to those who need my help and to myself.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you Compass\nMental health for allowing me to get to know the universe contained in this problem,\nthank you for understanding me, for allowing me to feel trust and timely attention.\nwhen required. Thank you for guiding me on this path of self-knowledge,\nfor realizing little by little all the valuable things in me, thank you for\nhelp me to find day by day a sense of life and many reasons why I have\nwhich are worth getting ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only\nI can, but I can&#8217;t alone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A patient in addiction treatment with our program, she shares her process of recovery from drug abuse and her perseverance to seek a better quality of life. 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