Thread: Warts and all..
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Old 02-12-2017, 12:43 AM
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Grymt
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Australia
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I don't see my attitudes nor my actions as being mature. (Active alcoholism stifles the maturation process.)

The experience I had and the way I dealt with it seems to have left a very deep mark. I felt like I descended into a hell. One of the first things I did after the alcoholic fog started to lift was to try to forgive and let go. It seemed to work and in not too long a time I was working and living a life with friends and relationships but when I was by myself at night, trying to sleep, I plunged back into that personal hell. It was only by being involved with people and partying that I kept that at bay. It never left me. I just kept it pushed inside.

When years later I have long periods of sobriety it's still there unresolved. This attempt to verbalise it is part of an attempt to find closure.
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