“Life will be a series of never ending changes and conflicts that you'll have to adapt to or solve…until you die. On your marks, get set… GO!”
I wish that I could offer up a secret, an answer to the hard parts in life, but unfortunately I'm working through it right alongside you. The only advice I can give to those of you struggling with some sort of addiction or stronghold be it a substance, relational, or mental and emotional is that nothing can ever get better if we don't first accept that where it is that we stand is not where we once stood and that despite the acknowledging of that, it WILL be okay.
So many of us become functional in our dysfunction. Keeping us in fear of a change that can bring on an unknown dysfunction that can possibly be harder to deal with. Thus keeping us hostage to whatever unhappy or unhealthy situation we find ourselves in. Let me say this, had I not made the conscious decision to CHANGE something, today I would not be writing this 100% Effexor (venlafaxine) free! Had I not opted for CHANGE, I'd still be walking around a zombie, out of touch with reality and suppressing all the things that God wanted me to learn to work through so that I could one day reach a different level in my spiritual walk.
Change is hard, change is annoying, change is awful, change is scary, change is no fun, change is irritating, change is depressing and if but nothing else, change is at the very least inevitable! So....
Work through the change
Breathe through the change
Hope through the change
Laugh through the change
Cry through the change
Believe through the change
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish. You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all. For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.”
Isaiah 41: 10-13