It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?' But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.
One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.
It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.
I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.
It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.
When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
There are all kinds of addictions, and I've got every single one. If you set me in front of anything, I will do it until I ram it into the ground and it's done working for me.
There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
I promise you that I did not become an addict because of anything to do with the behavior of either of my parents. Everybody has to make their own choices.