What to Know Before Judging Someone Facing Addiction

Julie
Julie
Sep 4, 2018 · 4 min read

I was recently talking with my therapist and exclaimed, “I just want a day off!” She responded, knowing my perfectionist tendencies, “So take a day off — your job has time off for a reason.”

But I meant a day off from my addiction, a vacation to silence the demons in my brain. I was exhausted from hearing their voices.

  • I was exhausted from all the…

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