Lena Dunham celebrates 5 years without taking any type of substance and celebrates it with a viral message on Instagram

We live in a society, the Mediterranean, which has always watered the happy moments with any type of alcohol and has also wanted to bathe the sad moments in it, what we usually call “drown the sorrows”. However, it is a terrible practice that, according to the most recent studies, young people have been rejecting it: Drinking is not in fashion in generation Z. Neither drinking, nor smoking, nor addictions to various substances.

According to the WHO, the harmful use of alcohol is a causal factor in more than 200 diseases and disorders and is the main cause of more than three million deaths worldwide. The same source confirms that More than 200 million people regularly use drugs, of which 25 million are addicted.

The actress, screenwriter and director Lena Dunham, one of the emblems of the ‘millennials’, He decided years ago to add a bit of health and sanity to his life and yesterday he celebrated through a beautiful post on his Instagram profile (@lenadunham) his five years of complete sobriety. The text, which has gone viral in just hours, ensures that these years freed from addictions have been “the happiest that she has lived on Earth.”

The post, which is accompanied by several recent photographs, reads as follows:

“5 years ago today, shaking like a little kid, I walked into substance abuse treatment. My parents hugged me goodbye, I put on my house slippers, and there I was. The fight against addiction hit me little by little, then all at once. It’s a cliché for a reason: asking for help was the hardest part (aside from the other hard parts), but every step from there got easier. AND ease was always the goal: ease in my body, ease in my restless mind, and ease to exist in moments of pain, anxiety and uncertainty without seeking a solution that seemed to help at the time but kept me from the people I loved and the life I wanted).

The last 5 years have been the happiest of my life on Earth (at least this time!). They have been filled with work, love, complexity and -yes- pain. But coping with all of that without medicating in unhealthy ways has given me a solid foundation and new tools. 5 years ago all this was impossible to imagine. 5 days were impossible to imagine. 5 minutes was sometimes hard to imagine.

I was able to get and stay sober because I had the support and resources to ask for and get incredible help, medical and spiritual. For many people, The difference between being sober and using is not your will or your strength, but your resources. We don’t have a system that makes it easy for those who are already struggling to make their lives work.

So today, on my lucky sober birthday – and for this entire week – I’m matching donations to @friendlyhousela [un centro de rehabilitación fundado en 1951 que fue el primer programa de ayuda a la recuperación de mujeres drogodependientes]a rehab center that does not turn away women or gender non-conforming people for financial reasons. I hope we can come together and give others the gift of that support, so they can celebrate similar days, living in their true strength. Every penny you donate will go towards helping people deal with addiction and trauma. The link is in my bio.

There are many people who deserve thanks here; I hope I have given you enough face to face, but today is a good reminder to give more. Every day is a lesson I’m lucky enough to learn, and I don’t take it for granted. So, especially today, I’m grateful.”

In 2020, Lena Dunham confessed that the anxiety pills she had been prescribed when she underwent a hysterectomy for her endometriosis had become addictive: “I was lying on a bed in my parents’ apartment under two blankets, in the same pajamas I’d been wearing for three days, and I said to myself, ‘This isn’t me.’ It wasn’t that I was suicidal. I didn’t feel anything. I didn’t I wanted to live,” he told Cosmopolitan UK. From there, she made the decision to enter a 28-day rehabilitation program.

Nominated for 8 Emmy Awards, Dunham has not stopped his working life in the last five years. He directed the films ‘Sharp Stick’ and ‘The Catherine Book’, starring Bella Ramsey (‘The Last Of Us’), as well as working as executive producer of the series ‘Camping’ and ‘Genera+ion’. Coming soon, lLet’s see as the protagonist of ‘Iron Box’, a drama set in the 90s where he will share the bill with Stephen Fry and which adapts Lily Brett’s autobiographical novel ‘Too many men’. Also, Dunham married last year Luis Felber, 36, a Peruvian-English musician, at an impromptu ceremony in London before friends like Taylor Swift.

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