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WHY BABY SEA TURTLES RUN: MEMOIR: ADDICTION * DUO-DIAGNOSIS – DISCRIMINATION
Leamon E. Scott BA, MSHS
Why Baby Sea Turtles Run is a definitive story reveal of how my birth and “predetermined” destiny would evolve into a person who’d do almost anything to feed the addiction monster. A deeply truthful memoir that provides the duo-diagnosed addict a valuable guide for the steps necessary to acquire self-respect; and the impetus to continually seek sobriety and successfully “Live Life on Life’s Terms”. In my tell-all recounting of a complicated descension, I further seek to present a truth of the hypocrisies I lived in my depth of self-destruction, which would cause undue consternation and regret on many people who’d cross my path – many being loved ones.
On June 15, 1995, I awoke from a heavy night of using crack cocaine and drinking. I was scheduled to go into work, which was now a serious problem in terms of unexcused absences. I looked around the interior of my rented room, into the mirror, and began to ball like a baby! After a while, I got down on my knees and begged my God for help and guidance. This sincerity and honesty was a new feeling I never had at any previous time in my life. I cried some more, and then began to shake uncontrollably; finally, it subsided as I started having rapid flashbacks of my addiction life and the terrible things I had done. I envisioned myself, toothless, homeless and on the streets of skid row, not as a Social Worker again, but a resident! I revisited my mother’s funeral in Oakland, and that I got high the same night.
The multitude of drug runs and sometimes deadly encounters with scammers and gangster dealers with bad attitudes. It is more than one man’s total revealing and accounting of his life to that point, and it was absolutely revolutionary. It was then I would begin to travel a precarious road that often resulted in one-step-forward and then a regression into the darkness again. What I would seek had become indeed a war…not just a battle.
There were narrow windows for me to see a future without chemical dependency, and I was fortunate to finally latch onto a desired long-term sobriety. And for it to be sustained, it must be a sobriety that continues to warrant daily consciousness without the associative stigma of being a recovering addict. It must bring together, and not separate, minds that are wired differently; yet, they have a common interest with a final goal. That in the end, the addict’s recovery becomes society’s recovery; one rooted in compassion and clinical interventions, which would again place human lives into the “value” category.
Why Baby Sea Turtles Run is a story that needs to be read with an understanding that there is hope for the duo-diagnosis addict, and the loved ones of that individual. Too often hope is lost and a family lives in grief and sorrow; or even death. In my memoir, a path to recovery and sobriety was long coming; yet in the end, there would be a lasting viability. Yes, for those in recovery it is a struggle that requires faith and support from many, even though it is often physically and emotionally challenging. What the addicted person must acquire from my story is that there is a road to a lasting recovery; and it comes when the individual hits bottom, then awakens to a desire to live life sober!
Website: Author’s Books Details
www.leamonescottauthor.com
Leamon E. Scott BA, MSHS
Why Baby Sea Turtles Run is a definitive story reveal of how my birth and “predetermined” destiny would evolve into a person who’d do almost anything to feed the addiction monster. A deeply truthful memoir that provides the duo-diagnosed addict a valuable guide for the steps necessary to acquire self-respect; and the impetus to continually seek sobriety and successfully “Live Life on Life’s Terms”. In my tell-all recounting of a complicated descension, I further seek to present a truth of the hypocrisies I lived in my depth of self-destruction, which would cause undue consternation and regret on many people who’d cross my path – many being loved ones.
On June 15, 1995, I awoke from a heavy night of using crack cocaine and drinking. I was scheduled to go into work, which was now a serious problem in terms of unexcused absences. I looked around the interior of my rented room, into the mirror, and began to ball like a baby! After a while, I got down on my knees and begged my God for help and guidance. This sincerity and honesty was a new feeling I never had at any previous time in my life. I cried some more, and then began to shake uncontrollably; finally, it subsided as I started having rapid flashbacks of my addiction life and the terrible things I had done. I envisioned myself, toothless, homeless and on the streets of skid row, not as a Social Worker again, but a resident! I revisited my mother’s funeral in Oakland, and that I got high the same night.
The multitude of drug runs and sometimes deadly encounters with scammers and gangster dealers with bad attitudes. It is more than one man’s total revealing and accounting of his life to that point, and it was absolutely revolutionary. It was then I would begin to travel a precarious road that often resulted in one-step-forward and then a regression into the darkness again. What I would seek had become indeed a war…not just a battle.
There were narrow windows for me to see a future without chemical dependency, and I was fortunate to finally latch onto a desired long-term sobriety. And for it to be sustained, it must be a sobriety that continues to warrant daily consciousness without the associative stigma of being a recovering addict. It must bring together, and not separate, minds that are wired differently; yet, they have a common interest with a final goal. That in the end, the addict’s recovery becomes society’s recovery; one rooted in compassion and clinical interventions, which would again place human lives into the “value” category.
Why Baby Sea Turtles Run is a story that needs to be read with an understanding that there is hope for the duo-diagnosis addict, and the loved ones of that individual. Too often hope is lost and a family lives in grief and sorrow; or even death. In my memoir, a path to recovery and sobriety was long coming; yet in the end, there would be a lasting viability. Yes, for those in recovery it is a struggle that requires faith and support from many, even though it is often physically and emotionally challenging. What the addicted person must acquire from my story is that there is a road to a lasting recovery; and it comes when the individual hits bottom, then awakens to a desire to live life sober!
Website: Author’s Books Details
www.leamonescottauthor.com