SO TRUE. This is SO TRUE.

Robert: You know? It's really not that difficult to overcome these seemingly ghastly problems.

Oprah: You are saying that it's not that difficult?

Robert: No. What's hard is to decide.

- Robert Downey Jr. on the Oprah Winfrey Show, 2004


This might be the truest thing I have ever heard, and everyone who suffers from addictive behaviors of any kind needs to face up to this. They need help, and they deserve help, but at some point, they have to help themselves. I remember once saying "This is stupid" and totally abandoning what I was about to do. It was the beginning of the end, at least of that. I decided. Once you love yourself enough to decide, it's amazing how the change comes.