Learning To Live As A Recovering Addict! Today I want to share some information that is a little bit hard to write, and even harder to hear. Hearing that you are an addict, or that you need help, can be hard, but I promise it’s not the end, but just maybe your beginning. I remember it like it was yesterday, the words I never dreamed I’d ever hear. A lady sat across from me holding a few papers in her hand, with no emotion in her tone she said , Melissa you have a problem and I am giving you one week to put yourself into a treatment center, if you don’t do this in this time frame I will be back to remove your children. I couldn’t wrap my head around the words that flowed out of her mouth. I felt my stomach turn and my body felt hot, but yet it shook as if it was ice cold. What would I do ? Was what she was saying the real truth about who I had become? I began thinking and thinking about life, more importantly about my children’s life. I never thought that someone could just take them away from me. The weekend went by like a flash, and Monday was here. It was time to pick up that heavy phone, in times like that I swear the phone weighs a ton. I began by calling my mother who had suffered from the disease of addiction and still struggled with it never getting the proper help that she needed. The words slowly came out of my mouth , mom I need help! Help, with what she replied. Help with finding a rehabilitation center that will allow children to come with you. She said I’m not sure if places like that even exist. I had no where to hide, I had to pick that heavy phone up once again and ask this case worker to help me. I didn’t care for this lady, she was…