When we grow up more, we still need comfort and assurance that we can handle all the things going in our personal lives and in situations going on at school or with our friends.

Sometimes, as teen agers, we are not willing to let our parents help us. Instead we look to our friends for help. Many times, our friends are in the same situation and they may have learned to react to situations in a way that can be harmful to our bodies such as drugs or alcohol. They will more than likely try to get us to believe that drugs and or alcohol will make us feel better or help us escape for a time, all these feelings and emotions. These ideas are very powerful and we end up believing them without any way to fight them. We don’t want to be excluded from our friends or become their enemy so we join along with them.

As we age, we discover that these alternative things do NOT give us continual comfort.  They only blind us from seeing the problem. When we sober up, we are still in the same shape and now added to that is an addiction to drugs and or alcohol to escape all these thoughts and feelings so we don’t have to deal with them. We find this addictive life-style continuing: it becomes what we think we need to live in this world. In truth, it is just a vicious circle we become entangled in.

Be comforted! There is a different way to live and receive the help you need without mind-altering substances. We can be happy. We can live without fear of being hurt, unloved, lonely or without hope in this world.