Hi jvr3419,
Thank you for your post. I really appreciate them.
This advice can only come from someone with abundant experience.
1. “The only thing you have ever seen, that actually keep people from switching between the demon and the good side of themselves is doing extremely thorough emotional work on themselves.”And the most dominant and widespread issues were some emotional dysregulations.
2. Most people you have met in recovery have extreme trust issues.
They have been severely hurt by other people so they have learned to be on their own as a survival mechanism. These people pull away from recovery and try to do recovery without any form of help.
3. They can be gamble free but they are not really recovering.
-we need to achieve emotional sobriety;
-we need to heal our past emotional traumas;
-we need to learn to cope with difficult emotions;
-we need to learn to connect with people.
This recovery will take a lifetime.
We are all works in progress and under construction.