Julie’s Guide to Al-Anon: Support for Friends and Family of Addicts

Our natural instinct is to create life, to live life, to pursue life. That is an innate ability that we're given when we're born, and so any desire to snuff out life, whether it's hanging yourself because of depression or anxiety, ingesting substances to make sure you don't feel, or simply ingesting substances because the part of the brain that is responsible for our base drives like fear and flight, eating, sex, etc. And unless you're an addict yourself, you don't understand how powerful that is.