How I Got Addicted to Sobriety

Sobriety Isn’t the Opposite of Addiction. You Can Get Addicted to Being Sober. But the Goal Isn’t to Be Sober, Anyway. The Goal Is to Be Free.

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Please, don’t mistake anything I’m about to say to mean that you shouldn’t get sober or stay sober. I am only talking about my experience.

Sobriety and addiction are not opposites.

First, I was drunk. Then, I was sober. And in both cases, I was addicted. You can get addicted to sobriety because you can get addicted to anything. Don’t believe me?

Watch that show, My Strange Addiction and you’ll see:

• A dude who makes sweet love to his car.
• A guy who’s in a polyamorous relationship with a half dozen inflatable pool toys.
• And a woman who compulsively eats couch cushion foam.

So, don’t tell me you can’t get addicted to sobriety, because I was.

Lemme tell you how I got there and what I did about it.

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