It’s a sincere acknowledgment of the challenges and a declaration of determination to move toward a life of resilience and fulfillment. This letter symbolizes liberation and renewal, embodying the individual’s resolve to embrace a brighter tomorrow beyond the shadows of addiction. In each program and at every level of care, you will have the opportunity to work in close collaboration with a team of skilled and compassionate treatment professionals. These dedicated caregivers will take the time to get to know you as a unique individual. Additionally, they will encourage you to play an active role in all aspects of your treatment. There will be four, five, and maybe even six different times where you and others will believe as though your time has ended and the monster is taking you to his home.
Offer Support & Love
Saying goodbye to addiction is like breaking free from the chains of an incredibly cruel and relentless captor. It means releasing oneself from something that has held you captive for what feels like a million years. Our addiction stepped out of the shadows and had us dangling from his strings for many years, but not today.
A Letter to Addiction
Like all unhealthy relationships, it’s time for you to end things with your addiction once and for all. It starts with you confronting your addiction head on. But, my dear addiction, I see you for what you are. They say that when we are sitting in meetings (12-step programs), you are outside in the parking lot doing push ups. Waiting to pounce at any given moment…waiting to take hold of our sanity and our serenity, down to a visceral level, when we turn our backs for just one second.
- Polysubstance consumption, combining various drugs, can lead to dependency or addiction, risky behaviors, and mental health issues (National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics, 2019).
- I can see how your life was out of control, spiraling into a pit of hurt and despair.
- My prayers, compassion, and unconditional love for you will never cease.
- This accepts that, while your behavior may have added stress, and even trauma, to a family member’s life, this did not cause their addiction.
- I have killed millions; I have ruined the lives of millions more, and I am pleased.
- It turns out that you are also vindictive, as you did everything in your power to pull me right back in.
The Experience Blog
If you want to encourage an addict to get help, you need to be willing to demonstrate what you will do to support these endeavors. Maybe you’ll go to Al-Anon meetings, accompany your loved one to AA, visit regularly during rehab or help with choosing the right program. When the subject of an intervention knows that help is available, making the choice to get assistance won’t feel so impossible. In preparing your letter, think about the ways in which facing addiction has changed your life and the life of your loved one. All of these things may seem par for the course for those in active addiction but will stand out as red flags to those on the outside looking in.
How to use our Goodbye Letter to Addiction template
Our daddy comes to the rescue and he pushes her to the side and pulls you and swaddles you in the blankets into his arms. At thirteen years of age, you decide to give up. We call the “friends” that tell us how to rid the pain that is now being formed around our heart.
A Heartfelt Letter for Your Loved One in Recovery
I want to be the first thing you think about every morning and the last thing you think about before you black-out. Many relapses happen due to an argument or blow up and coming to the conclusion that you are out the door can be easier as it is often fueled by anger. Domestic violence or substantial out of control behavior can also help pave the way to that decision. I need time away, from living together, to work on myself. I want to be with you, but only after working on what needs to come first … me.
Handbook
Eventually, you took everything away from me. You told me that as long as I let you control everything in my life, everything would be okay. It has become clear that everything is not okay. In order for things to get better, I need to let you go. Thanksgiving is a time to gather with loved ones and give thanks for the many blessings letter to my addiction in our lives.
Nine Days
I want you to feel sorry for yourself and blame everything but me for the way things are. I want you to be deceitful and untrustworthy and to manipulate and con as many people as possible. I want to make you feel fearful and paranoid for no reason at all. I want to make you wake up all hours of the night screaming for me. You know you can’t sleep without me, I’m even in your dreams.