★ A dual-view portrait: one voice from inside the bottle, one from the clinician’s chair.
★ Why do we keep walking into the same trap when we already see the snare? How do you know if you’re addicted? And how do you climb out once you are?
★ Endorsed by readers battling addiction and by professionals looking for a humane, practical resource.

Addiction is a long game—but it is never too late to fold. An alcoholic gives days, months, years to a single object: the next drink. Time stretches into a looping nightmare, rewriting brain chemistry, health, face, career, family, self. Recovery starts only when alcoholism is recognised as an illness that grows from within. In these pages you will learn: the clinical definition of addiction; why masses drift toward alcohol; why quitting is never a solo project; the power and guilt of co-dependent couples; why most solutions relapse; what to do when someone you love is drinking; ten sober reasons and where to begin; symptoms, stages, crisis points; family dynamics and co-dependency traps; the rocky road back to yourself. Written by a clinical psychologist who fought her own way out, the book is a rope thrown back into the pit—proof that escape is possible.

Tatyana Fischer
Clinical psychologist, body-oriented therapist, certified alcohol-addiction counsellor, seminar leader and recovering alcoholic. For years she has volunteered and co-facilitated groups in a rehabilitation centre. She wrote this book to be the companion she once needed herself.