Handcuffs Please

There are some illnesses which cannot be cured, but rather arrested.  Many of these come in the form of addictions.  Many of these are rooted in childhood trauma.  How can you go back in time and change what's already been done?  You can't.  There isn't a cure for addiction and their afflictions that arises from childhood trauma.  They do not have to run and ruin your life though.  They may not be cured, and the driving force behind those can't be erased, but I'm just beginning to see hope, in that the degree of power and force they contain which controls your life CAN be arrested.

Handcuffs are sometimes good.  I'm only in the beginning phases of finding comfort in this, but before that comfort is mine, I must go through some major discomfort...because freedom doesn't come free of suffering.