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FirstLight

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2. pretty sure I started drinking more when I left my ex in 2005

Reply to brewens (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 29, 2024, 11:24 PM

Jun 2024

and then it really escalated as the kids hit the teen years and I had more health issues. (duh, and alcohol was not helping!)

The last 5 years were really the worst. I was a "functional"alcoholic...i hid it well for the most part but waiting till 5 every day to get drunk for the evening wasn't good.

So yeah, drunk me wasn't very present, and sober me is now seeing what 20 years of buried emotional trauma feels like

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Started a new Book on Trauma and I'm shook... [View all] FirstLight Jun 2024 OP

Good luck. I've had depression problems and am on Celexa which works well for me. I'm cut off on the alcohol brewens Jun 2024 #1

pretty sure I started drinking more when I left my ex in 2005 FirstLight Jun 2024 #2

I'm reading that book too. Mister Ed Jun 2024 #3

For me, my addiction was self medicating. multigraincracker Jun 2024 #4