This Thursday I got to take my daughter for a walk in the morning again. She wanted to go swimming.

I saw a facebook post from a guy who reacted angrily to the attitudes of the people in his recovery groups.  For some reason I thought about Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's stages of coming to terms with death: denial, anger, bargaining, then acceptance.  It occurred to me that addicts go through a similar set of phases in their recovery.  I wondered what the correlation might be.  Perhaps it is the sudden impendence of death to the using mind that results in the same way as to the threat of actual physical death.