My thoughts for parents of addicts at this time of year……
Caroline Carey Writings, Prose & Poetry
What’s it like? To know your child has been taken over by a drug, by alcohol, by anything at all that claims a part of their life and makes it their own. The spirit that lives through them, that takes control and takes them on a journey ‘out to sea’ gradually bit by bit, the shore getting further away. And even though they feel that they could ‘swim’ back any time, the reality is that the further they swim out to those depths, before any one realised it could possibly happen to them, they are out of their depths and there is no turning back.
It has them in its grip, no longer treading waters with the hope of one day just swimming to those shores and landing back on their feet, ready to take their life in their hands. They are dancing with the spirit of addiction out in…
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