{"id":3793,"date":"2018-10-18T09:05:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T09:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.americasrehabcampuses.com\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2023-04-10T14:52:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T14:52:49","slug":"addiction-recovery-my-birthright-from-liquor-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americasrehabcampuses.com\/addiction\/recovery\/addiction-recovery-my-birthright-from-liquor-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Addiction Recovery- My Birthright from Liquor to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
Your remarkable day of life starts with a vicious punch to the gut through violent dry heaving and then spreads its bountiful wretchedness by way of fierce, uncontrollable shakes.<\/strong><\/em> The day crawls second by second, minute by minute until you\u2019ve prepared for that life eroding sting of your first drink. Your day of celebration is marred by self-pity to which the only end is the blurred moment you start your misery party of one, all over again. Another birthday lost, another moment of gratitude poured into your drowning soul, and another chapter of your addiction being heralded by your worst critics.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An unmemorable ceremony that a healthy mind could never stomach.\u00a0 Once glowing candles that Greeks first lit to respect Artemis<\/em>, the lunar goddess.\u00a0 Or an 18th Century German tradition burning on a decadent sweet cake is now, well, just another a Bollywood Birthday story-line of insanity in the life of a spiraling addict.<\/p>\nWhat would you think if I told you I didn\u2019t care and I pissed it away with metabolized vodka?<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n