Addiction is a problem that all of us are sadly all too familiar with. We are all touched by its relentless destructiveness and those people in our lives who struggle are constant reminders how any one of us could become an addict. Any one of us could take a turn one day and find ourselves undone.
Crystal Bush’s journey is a perfect example of how even the strongest of us can fall and fall hard. She begins her story as a child, abandoned by her mother at the hospital at birth, her grandparents take her in and raise her, her father intermittent in her life. She is loved and supported but her life is tinged with sadness and her self esteem is caught in the waves of longing to be like everyone else. Of course so many of us are from backgrounds of turmoil and chaos, it’s easy to forget that what seems normal is often statistically abnormal. But children are always so fragile when it comes to love and the lack of it and they can’t judge as objectively as adults and adults cant be objectiv
