From The Half Measures Room...

...on 'hope'

"We reached a point in our lives where we felt like a lost cause.  We had little worth to family, friends or on the job.  Many of us were unemployed and unemployable.  Any form of success was frightening and unfamiliar.  We didn't know what to do.  As the feeling of self-loathing grew, we needed to use more and more to mask our feelings.  We were sick and tired of pain and trouble.  We were frightened and ran from fear.  No matter how far we ran, we always carried fear with us.  We were hopeless, useless and lost.  Failure had become our way of life and self-esteem was non-existent.  Perhaps the most painful feeling of all was the desperation.  Isolation and denial of our addiction kept us moving along this downhill path.  Any hope of getting better disappeared.  Helplessness, emptiness and fear became our way of life.  We were complete failures.  Personality change was what we really needed.  Change from self-destructive patterns of life became necessary.  When we lied, cheated or stole, we degraded ourselves in our own eyes.  We had had enough of self-destruction.  We experienced our powerlessness.  When nothing relieved our paranoia and fear, we hit bottom and became ready to ask for help."  P. 14-15  NA Main Text

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