A conversation about the moment someone realizes their drug and alcohol habits are damaging their body and life. The realization rarely comes as one clear event, but as a gradual, unsettling awareness that the lifestyle is taking a serious toll.
When was the first time that you thought, oh fuck, I might be in trouble? Like, this is— this, this drugs, this life is becoming an issue,
bro. To be honest, it doesn't really work that way. No, tell me. The moment you kind of realize you have a problem is
the
moment you really do have a problem. The moment you realize you had a problem, you really had the problem 5 years before that moment. So all through my early 20s, I was just enjoying life, staying present, staying in the moment. In the bad kind of way. Drinking, drugging, enjoying. The moment I kind of realized that I needed to turn my life around was not far off the moment I got sober and did. So in my early 30s. There's a lot of accountability you have to have to kind of come around and realize that you have a problem.
