I've almost lost all hope on my heroin addicted little brother.

I'm an addict in active addiction. I'm sure you know what active addiction means, given your situation, but if you do not know, active addiction means actively using. I'm not trying to patronize you, I just want my message and the perspective from which I speak, to be clear. . I really want to respond to your post. I'm going to take a walk and think before I do though, I don't want to just say anything.

I been to treatment, once. I've had clean time, twice. I've told other people and myself this is the last time, over and over and over again. I don't hate your confession. It makes me sad, for him and for you. I feel it from both sides, in the realest way.

Let's be real though, I'm an addict. I might never get back to you because I suck at keeping a commitment, unless it's to my drug of choice.

If I never get back to you, I want you to know that your brother is trying, even if it doesn't seem like it at all. No one gets it right in the first try. Most people fail so hard, so many times, before they succeed. And they get worse, before they get better. With that being said, you need to take care of yourself before anyone else. You can't let him take you down, too. The best thing anyone can do is to let their addict go. Its all bad, but the worst thing we will do is abuse your heart, over and over again, for as long as the door between us remains open.

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