THE SILENT DRUGS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
Why We Believe We Have Everything Under Control
Volume 1 of the series "Between the Years - Texts on Orientation"
This book is not a guide.
It does not tell you how to stop.
It shows what happens when you function for long enough.
Volume 1 opens a four-part book series about the silent drugs of everyday life – told from personal experience, without moral judgement and without spectacle.
This first volume introduces the themes that run through all four books:
marijuana, alcohol, tobacco, sugar – and also heroin and cocaine.
Not as shock stories.
Not as boundary experiences.
But as part of a continuum in which substances and habits can serve the same purpose:
• keeping closeness at a distance
• smoothing transitions
• dampening inner tension
Not spectacular.
Not dramatic.
But quietly effective.
What you will find in this book
• 🔍 An honest look at consumption in all its forms
From socially accepted habits to substances that are usually suppressed – without hierarchies and without moral judgement.
• 🧠 How substances and habits work before they become noticeable
Not as collapse or addiction, but as something that initially helps you function.
• 🕰️ Stories about closeness, loss and adaptation
Moments in which nothing escalates – and precisely because of that, something slowly disappears.
• 🧩 Why the distinction between “hard” and “soft” drugs can be misleading
And why habits are often more powerful than excess.
• 🚪 The feeling of being inside and outside at the same time
In life, in relationships, in your own body.
What this book can give you
• 🌿 Clarity instead of self-condemnation
Recognising patterns without having to justify or explain yourself.
• 🧭 Orientation instead of instruction
No programme. No goal. No pressure. Just an inner reference point.
• 🔎 An honest understanding of your own relationship with consumption
Whether socially accepted or quietly ignored.
• 🤍 Relief
Because it becomes visible: this is not about weakness – but about adaptation.
Who this book is for
• People who consume without collapsing
• People who function even though something feels missing
• People who sense that everything is running – but not everything feels close
What this book is not
• ❌ Not a guide
• ❌ Not therapy
• ❌ Not a warning text
This book is the entry point into a four-part series that shows how very different drugs – substances and habits – can take on the same role long before they are questioned.