Recovery Month – Day 10 – Reality is Persistent

Reality is merely an illusion; albeit a persistent one.

— Albert Einstein —

September is National Recovery Month.

The focus of my blogs throughout the month of September will be on addiction and its life destroying tendencies. The writings derive from my own personal experiences of battling addiction and living a life of recovery.

These specific writings are focused on the ACT acronym.

ACT leads to sobriety…

A – Acknowledge you have a problem and you are powerless over it and you need help.

– Connect with a power greater than you and people who have solutions that will help you conquer your problem.

T – Take positive, recovery-oriented action every day.

From September 1 through the 7th, I wrote about the importance of Acknowledging there is a problem and the next several days I will be writing about the importance of Connect.


Today’s post is a continuation of yesterday’s (Sept. 9).


So Lori and I show up for my appointment with the chemical dependency expert.

Have you ever taken a test and thought you aced it but shockingly you find that you failed it miserably?

This is what happened during my first ever chemical dependency assessment (test).

First of all, you probably have a drug problem when you have to take a chemical dependency test/assessment…just my opinion.

Anyway, I took the assessment and lied on about half of it, because if I told the truth it would mean I had a problem and the psychologist (Dr. Bob) was correct.

After reviewing the results of my assessment, the chemical dependency expert (another guy named Bob), looked at Lori and I and said, “Jay, you need help and we have a bed open and can get the recovery process started today.”

I thought, “Wait a minute, I lied throughout the assessment so it would look like I didn’t need help! What the heck is going on?!” I then thought, but thankfully didn’t say, “You can ram that bed up your behind!” And then I looked at Lori and said, “We are out of here.”

At this point in my road to recovery, I figured either all the Bob’s in the world were out to get me, or I had a much bigger problem than I realized.

It’s worth noting that once I got into recovery, Lori shared with me that she had talked to Bob, the chemical dependency expert, prior to my meeting with him. In essence, she had taken the assessment for me and aced it. 🙂

While I was dying a slow death because of my unwillingness to accept reality, my wife was doing some very important connecting behind the scenes.

We will continue to look at Connect tomorrow.


Proverbs 12:19, “Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.”

P.E.A.C.E.

Jay@EagleLaunch.com

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