“I challenge anyone not to feel worn down after weeks and months of having to be grateful. When there is little enough left of your true self, somehow the gratitude feels like the last straw. Or” — Cathryn Kemp Copy Share Image
“Whether I cry about it or accept it, there is little I can do about it anyway. I am sorely grateful. And that gratitude,… — Cathryn Kemp Copy Share Image
“Part of the reason I got so thin is because my pancreas simply couldn’t digest my food and so I couldn’t absorb anything. It… — Cathryn Kemp Copy Share Image
“I notice how the relationships I did manage to cling to are starting to fade away. My friends have lives of their own and… — Cathryn Kemp Copy Share Image
“And I was – still am – in a state of permanent terror that the pancreatitis may return. I still have nightmares about hospital… — Cathryn Kemp Copy Share Image
“we are all the shunned masses, part of the bands of outcasts of a society that worships self-control and despises addiction as a moral… — Cathryn Kemp Copy Share Image
“The strands of my soul which should weave together to create a life have shredded and ripped into fragments so tangled up that I… — Cathryn Kemp Copy Share Image
“I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy… — Cathryn Kemp Copy Share Image
“I am shielding my eyes from the sun as I look over the ruins I have trekked five days to reach. I can see… — Cathryn Kemp Copy Share Image
“There is a reason why so many heroin addicts die of their affliction. And the reason is this: the withdrawal process. It is so… — Cathryn Kemp Copy Share Image
“I challenge anyone not to feel worn down after weeks and months of having to be grateful. When there is little enough left of… — Cathryn Kemp Copy Share Image
“I feel a sense of betrayal by my body, most strongly when the attacks come, as they do, every week or so for the… — Cathryn Kemp Copy Share Image
