DRUGS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
Why we believe we have everything under control - and how we quietly drift away from ourselves
Volume 1 of the series "Between the Years - Texts on Orientation"
✨ This book is not a guide.
It does not explain how to stop.
It shows what happens when everything works – and you still slowly drift away from yourself.
📖 Volume 1 of a four-part book series about everyday forms of numbing – told from personal experience.
This first volume introduces a continuum that runs through all four books: marijuana, alcohol, tobacco, sugar, but also heroin and cocaine. Not as extreme experiences. Not as collapse. But as part of an everyday life in which substances and habits can take on the same function – smoothing transitions, dampening tension, keeping closeness at a distance.
Not spectacular.
Not dramatic.
But effective.
✨ WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT IN THIS BOOK
🔹 A look at consumption that goes unnoticed
Not as a collapse – but as something that helps you function.
🔹 Stories in which nothing escalates
and in that, something is lost.
🔹 The quiet shift of closeness
without it being immediately noticed.
🔹 Why habits often have a stronger effect
than what is considered dangerous.
🔹 The feeling of standing both inside and outside
in life, in relationships, in your own body.
✨ WHAT THIS BOOK CAN GIVE YOU
🔹 Clarity instead of self-judgement
You recognise patterns without having to justify yourself.
🔹 An honest understanding of your own relationship with consumption
whether socially accepted or pushed aside.
🔹 Relief
because it becomes visible: it is not about weakness, but about adaptation.
🔹 Orientation instead of instruction
no programme, no goal, no pressure – but an inner measure.
✨ WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
🔹 for people who consume without collapsing
🔹 for people who function even though something is missing
🔹 for people who feel that everything runs – but not everything feels close
✨ WHAT THIS BOOK IS NOT
🔹 not a guide
🔹 not therapy
🔹 not a warning
✨ This is the entry point into a four-part series that shows how very different drugs – substances as well as habits – can take on the same role long before they are questioned.
✨ THE BOOK SERIES
📘 BACK TO REAL LIFE – Volume 1
About self-optimisation, comparison and the quiet path back to yourself.
For when you are tired of comparing and want to return to yourself.
📘 KEEPING YOUR OWN MEASURE – Volume 2
About boundaries, overload and inner order.
For when you want to learn to say no without feeling guilty.
📘 WHEN EVERYTHING SEEMS POSSIBLE – Volume 3
About speed, success and the quiet loss of orientation.
For when you realise that speed does not replace direction.
📘 MOVING ON ALONE – Volume 4
About continuing after farewells.
For when you have to learn to move on, even though no one walks beside you anymore.