life help: I could sit here and write about ‘oh what a terrible childhood I had’ and I would be telling the truth, but no I am going to say… - Help.com

I could sit here and write about ‘oh what a terrible childhood I had’ and I would be telling the truth, but no I am going to say…

- I started drinking when I was 12 to escape my head (wasn’t really that hard to get access to grog given that I had an older brother and parents with a full alcohol cupboard who didn’t drink).
- When I was 16 I could justify drinking because of the people I hung around and I was only drinking at school because that was the type of person I was.
- At the age of 18 I was drinking one-two bottles of vodka + a bottle of wine a day but only because my house mate was insane and I needed the alcohol to be able to deal with her. (if it was a “party night” I would drink anything and everything which left me very sick.)
- Just after I turned 19 I was suddenly admitted into hospital so I hadn’t had time to pack alcohol and I was on ward so I couldn’t go buy any. This was the week I learned I had a drinking problem. I had to detox (that was hell). Then I craved and I had never felt anything like it before. So I was finally forced to face my addiction head on. During this I looked back on the last 7 years of my life in dot point form just like I wrote here and saw all my sad little excuses and reasons that I gave myself for drinking.
- Now I am 20 and I still battle my alcoholism and I still some times try to deny it. I am not recovered, but I am recovering.

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sparkyman offline Verified User (2 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 7 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 3 months ago (9 minutes after post)

Awesome in your recovery story! I have seen too many people fail to start their battle with alcoholism, so congrats that you are well on your way to recovering. Hope everything goes well!

╬~HoPe ThAt HeLpS~╬

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 3 months ago (10 minutes after post)

its not fair how some people are robbed of their childhoods. i believe i was robbed of mine. its supposed to be the best years of your life. but not so much. please believe that you’re not only hurting yourself, but you’re hurting other people. i am haunted by a past in which drugs and alcoholism severely affected me, just by being born into a family of drugs and alcohol. and I’m really glad that you have realized you have a problem. and that you have the will to recover. im sure you have the strength to overcome it. and its not going to be easy. but its a start.

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1 year, 3 months ago (3 hours, 31 minutes after post)

I think it’s important that you find a way to stop drinking alcohol. There’s this medicine that your doctor can give you that makes you violently ill when you drink. I mean really sick, projectile vomiting, chills, throat swollen just about shut. You might want to try this. I hear it really works.

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 3 months ago (5 hours, 46 minutes after post)

Well done it must have been so hard for you. I will be thinking of you brave one.

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Gloversville, NY, US | 1 year, 3 months ago (8 hours, 12 minutes after post)

first, i would like to say that i am very proud of you… the first thing that we can all do is realize that we have a problem and stop blaming others for what we ourselves are doing.. yes, a bad child hood can cause so many issues but seriously, people need to stop using the excuse of.. well, im a statistic… i do this because of this and i do that because of that…

being from a very bad abusing home myself.. i have refused to be that statistic.. i have never once hit my own children… its called self control… and not allowing excuses to run my life…

so i am very proud of you… keep up the good work and remain in control of who you are..

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