How MOM Portrays Addiction

The show is about mother and daughter, Bonnie and Christy who are on their journey to sobriety. Both women have similar experiences when it comes to addiction. Bonnie grew up in foster care whereas Christy spend a lot of her childhood caring for her mother thru her addiction and not knowing where she was a lot of the time which eventually led her to her own addiction. The cycle continues when Christy as kids of her own and they experience their own childhood of addiction.

Throughout the show, we see the characters work on their sobriety, help each other with their recovery and at times relapse and having to start from the beginning. We see the characters not only own up to their mistakes, but we see them come together to support each other when they are at their lowest. Along the way, there’s disagreements, the occasional fight and lots of lunch dates at the bistro, but at the end of the day, the characters know that if they didn’t have each other, they wouldn’t be where they are.

Mom is the perfect show to bring people into the world of addiction. You get to see the highs and lows of someone going through recovery and trying to make up for the things they did while in the middle of their addiction. The show also allows you to see the affect it has on kids who grew up with a parent with an addiction. They grow up faster than they should because they have to take care of their parents who rely on their addiction to be able to function. They don’t realize that they are hurting their kids, not just emotionally, but mentally.

Children of parents with addiction distance themselves from them later in life or they repeat the cycle and go down their own path of addiction. Kids learn a lot from their parents and they either follow those lessons or they find they solution and live a better and healthier life.

Mom is a show that shows real life, with real problems and real experiences. Some people are not able to beat their addictions, but with the right people and the right support system, you can get better and overcome, but it’s going to take time and it’s going to take a lot of work. You just have to commit and know that once you get a track to recovery, you have to focus on not going off course.

One step at a time. There’s no shame in asking for help.