A Second Chance

I WAS TWENTY-FIVE years old the day I entered a halfway house and had my first introduction to the program. I had just been released from a psychiatric ward for the tenth time in seven years. I had abused alcohol and nearly every other drug for ten years, but no one had ever told me I was an alcoholic. (I was too young to be an alcoholic!) After several suicide attempts, I was trapped in that terrifying twilight zone, unable either to live or to die. Completely defeated physically, mentally, and spiritually, I surrendered. Today, I know that powerlessness was necessary before a greater Power could step in and work a miracle of rebirth.