In this podcast, Bruno J. discusses what life was like and what happened to make him realise there was hope of living a better, as opposed to a horrible life.
We learn that:
- For many of us, we try to keep up appearances despite the emptiness and despair inside of us.
- That leads us to lead a double life until that act blows up when addiction or alcoholism takes over and we lose our material position.
- We, addicts, are completely unaware that addiction has taken over our lives and changed us in ways we would not recognise. An example is how I became a violent person, in fact violating every good value I once held dear.
- It took another eight years of a horrible, insane life going ever further down (despite short-term success along the way, and lots of money to burn) before I woke up to what was really going on.
- It may seem strange to you, but I was relieved to learn that instead of being clinically insane, all I had was an advanced case of addiction and alcoholism which explained almost all the crazy symptoms. There was hope at last.