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Discoveringme welcome to the forums.
I started drinking around age 13. It did not take me long to become addicted to the euphoria and the false sense of "well being" that alcohol presented. I realized that alcohol "took my pain away", so for 20 years I used alcohol as a coping means for difficulties in life.
All relationship and new changes in life presented new challenges with difficulties to overcome.We learn and grow and mature when we face these challenges and seek resolutions for our problems.Alcohol shortcircuits our ablity to mature and to develop new survival skills which is why as an adult I knew very little about how to deal with a problem.In some ways I was still a 13 y.o boy struggling to deal with life.
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