There are a couple of turning points in someone's journey through drug rehab and on to sobriety. The number one turning point is doing exactly what you say you are going to do. In simple words, living in truth. If you say you are going to do something, you complete it. Even if you do not have to. You complete it even if there might be a better use of your time. You start to live in total truth.
With you are living in an addictive cycle, you get used to telling stories to "cover your tracks". These stories become a part of your life. In a drug rehab program you learn to live without stories. You just do it because you said you would. You have to learn to stop explaining everything you do. When you are living a lie, you tell stories about everything so you can stay in control. The best defense is offence, sort of thing. Once you learn to live and tell the truth, you have to stop explaining everything. You do not have to stay in control.
This comes to the second turning point. You stop telling eveyone what you are doing, and you give up control. You stop talking about your addiction. You just live an honest life. When asked, you answer with the total truth. You stop wearing the I'm an addict badge, and start wearing the I live a great life smile. After a period of time you will figure out the happy medium for disclosing details about your past life. After living a long time in the land of lies, the way out in not through talking, it is through doing.
