Update 5/21/21: I last updated this story in 2019. Thanks to research scientists, many of my views about substance use are now more informed. Thanks to counselors who offer research-informed counseling protocols, I am now in remission from substance use disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. I am currently writing brief pieces that may be of assistance to clients and attempting to compose sentences in Mandarin Chinese.
- Something I’ve wanted to tell you
- A lot happens
- Drinking history
- 18 months
- 2 years
- A bit over 2 years
- 3 years
- 3 and 5/12 years
- 3.75 years
- 3.8 years
- 3 years, 11 months
- 4 years
- 4 years, 8 months
- 5 years
- Additional entries are in the Recovery Story category.
Memoir
The Fix published my memoir, entitled The Last Addictions Memoir (Hopefully): An Evidence-Based Recovery Story, in serial form.
Table of contents:
Part 1 – Introduction and Handout 1 – 3/24/17
Part 2 – Handout 2 – 3/31/17
Part 3 – Handout 3 – 4/7/17
(Handouts published together as a guide to evidence-informed self-care on my company’s blog.)
Part 4 – About the broken foot – 4/14/17
Part 5 – About my father – 4/21/17
Part 6 – About my mother and photographs – 4/28/17
Part 7 – About my mother and books – 5/5/17
Part 8 – About the baby – 5/12/17
Part 9 – About the first student – 5/23/17
Part 10 – About alcoholism as a horror story – 5/30/17
Part 11 – About the shootings – 6/6/17
Part 12 – About wishing for a redo after 4.5 years of abstinence – 6/13/17
Part 13 – About the final student – 6/20/17
Part 14 – About what I did on 12/28/12 – 7/4/17
Part 15 – About attention and abstinence – 7/18/17
Part 16 – About how I’m crazy – 7/25/17
Part 17 – About the abstinence protection plan deal, 8/1/17
Part 18 – About staying home, 8/8/17
Part 19 – About dancing, 8/22/17
The End – About love, 8/29/17
