Hitting Bottom
We don't up and decide to attend NA because we're excelling at life or finding ourselves free from problems.
Most addicts are driven to seek help when they are face-to-face with a highly-negative life change, such as divorce, loss of custody, bankruptcy, prison sentences, insanity or death. Not everyone hits the same bottom, or falls to the same extent. Some of us may have hit our bottom years before seeking help, and haven't yet realized just how little we've had for such a long time.
For those of us who haven't been driven into the rooms by a recent horrible event, it is easy to fall into a psychological trap by comparing our own circumstances to those of other addicts. The disease of addiction constantly attempts to fool us and tell us that we aren't "real addicts", or that we still have control over our lives while in active addiction, or that we can resume using after some milestone achieved or lesson learned in recovery.
Most recovering addicts will relapse, and while relapse is not the most desirable way to have our powerlessness over drugs confirmed, it is one of the easiest ways to come to terms with this inevitable conclusion. One of the biggest ways that NA is successful is that relapsing addicts are always encouraged to come back to the rooms, where they can still find love and forgiveness by their fellows, instead of being judged or berated.
As long as an addict keeps coming back, and never loses their desire to be clean, they can easily recover from a relapse before they hit a lower bottom than the circumstances that first brought them to the program.
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