Normal people don’t understand what it’s like. They don’t know what it’s like to have voices on the inside that wants to sabotage everything. A voice that sounds an awful lot like your own. A voice that tells you to just relapse, a voice that tells you just end it all. Then there’s your true self. The part that wants to recover. It’s hard for us to focus on that part of ourselves. After years of negative, self destructive behaviors, it takes hard work for us to just think happy thoughts