In the Grip
A child’s addiction. A family’s journey.
My hope is that telling this part of our story will open a conversation with someone who needs it. My words here are real, written through pain but told so we can start to unshackle ourselves from the stigma of addiction.
The most important thing to know is you're not on this path alone. There are thousands of people exactly where you are and if we put our voices together we can help each other through.
not what we expected
I wished that there was a qualification list for the parents of the person being discharged because by this point all I wanted to do was crawl into John’s magically maneuverable bed and have people bring me food and drinks all day and night because I most definitely wasn’t ready for this transfer.