Full of emptiness - reflections on recovery from addictions and compulsive behaviors

About the book: We were simply.. running away from ourselves. We use food, pornography, sex, relationships, shopping, and immersion with our phones as mood changers, as painkillers for a deep pain we may not be aware of. We fill a void inside us that took root early on, bandaging a trauma that created a crack in language that we could only heal by distracting ourselves with compulsive behavior. Addiction was our silent scream, our suppressed suffering, and our stifled moan. And here is a roadmap to stop fleeing from ourselves! Quotes from a book filled with emptiness: "Something is missing Maybe hope Maybe life Maybe forgetfulness Or maybe me." "I never imagined that inside me two desires were fighting; one desire to recover and get rid of pain, and another unconscious desire that surpasses the first in strength and dominance, which is the desire to stay sick, to keep everything I complain about actually." "I cannot make you understand... I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me... I can't even explain it to myself." Franz Kafka To request more books by the author Emad Rashad Osman: I loved and became my father whom I hated Filled with emptiness And a collection of books by Emad Rashad Osman, the psychological collection by the author Emad Rashad Osman