So, I study psychology, and as I was reading tonight, I came across this quote. It really stood out to me, and I put down the book for a while, and rolled it around my brain. I've suffered a lot of depression, battled alcoholism and drug abuse. My depressive symptoms have subsided, (thanks to ayahuasca! do some research!) but this quote really made me see why I was so self-defeating. Why I kept drinking after I knew it was making my life even worse, stripping me of important social relationships.

'Most people prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty.'

We put ourselves into miserable circumstances because that's familiar. We're almost comfortable in our own misery, in some sick way, because it's familiar. It's scary to think there's something else out there. There is, though. And what are the odds that it's worse than the situation and mental state you're in right now?

Just something to think about.