The Addict's Bill of Rights

So this comes from something my therapist gave me, and I've also added a couple of things on my own. Feel free to comment and/or add other things that you think are important...

1. The right to private time
2. The right to establish my own recovery plan and pace
3. The right to recover and to feel good about it
4. The right to confidentiality
5. The right to define pace and the amount of disclosure
6. The right to my feelings
7. The right to expect respect
8. The right to define my addiction as only a part of me
9. The right to define and seek my self-growth and have boundaries
10. The right to have my opinion
11. The right to value my own opinion over others' opinions of me
12. The right to feel good about myself
13. The right to be disliked by others
14. The right to express disagreement or anger
15. The right to make mistakes and be imperfect and accept my humanness
16. The right to choices and the right to change my choice
17. The right to accept myself
18. The right to say no
19. The right to say yes
20. The right to be loved
21. The right to be myself
22. The right to explore new healthy experiences
23. The right to live one day at a time
24. The right not to care
25. The right to ask for what I need
26. The right to find and define healthy spirituality
27. The right to be equal
28. The right to be wrong for as long as I want to be
29. The right to not explain myself or my actions
30. The right to walk away
31. The right to exist