There is a saying, in German, “denn wir haben eine Krise der Verzweiflung erreicht” – for we have reached a crisis of desperation. When I read this the other day, I thought of my life before I started attending Nar-Anon. The desperation that had consumed my being was a crisis. I wanted to change the addict’s destructive behavior and tried every trick in the book – anger, belittlement, and manipulation. None of them worked. When I would look for the addict on the streets and did find her, I would be sick…
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