Writer: Imad Rashad Othman Cover type: Regular Year of publication: 2023 Prices in Omani Riyal
We were simply running away from ourselves.
We use food, porn, sex, relationships, purchases, and indulging ourselves with our phones as mood-alterers, as painkillers for deep pain that we may not even be aware of.
We fill an internal gap that took root in us early on, healing a trauma that caused a rift in the language that we could not heal except by distracting from it with coercive behavior.
Addiction was our mute cry, our muffled pain, and our painful groan.
Here is a roadmap to stop running away from ourselves!