Old 11-15-2015, 05:13 PM
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Andante
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Brains differ. Bodies differ. Your personal makeup just happens to include a higher susceptibility to the ravages of alcohol abuse than people on the thick part of the statistical "bell curve." Does that makes you a "terrible person?" Only if you identify yourself that way.

My own "outlier" experience happens to be on the other end -- it's about slowness of recovery from alcoholic damage to the brain and nervous system.

I can only shake my head in awe of some of the folks who come here to SR, sober up after 30 years of the kind of extreme heavy drinking that I could only imagine, and report feeling absolutely 100% well within a week or two.

I've been sober for over 2-1/2 years after just 12 years or so of heavy drinking, and I'm still dealing with brain and nerve damage issues!

Does that make me a "terrible person?" Only if I let it.
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