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Yes, there are rotten things I survived so far as a human being, but I always feel blessed. I could have been born under the horrific circumstances like the Syrian civilians. I could be a parent that pulled my dead baby out from the gravel today after my government tried to blow us up. I immediately have a different perspective, I could have been dealt different cards. I could have been born in Africa and turned to prostitution just to get water for my family. I could have been born in Haiti,...

I'm pretty sure where my alcohol abuse stemmed from:

SEXUAL ABUSE:
I was sexually molested by my birth father until almost the age of 10. I have no communication with my birth father, other than the times he calls me from a private number. He is a psychopath, narcissistic, and sociopath. He was never clinically diagnosed, he thought he was God, but many stories in therapy gave my therapist a strong hunch. My mother remarried eventually to the most wonderful man;...

I have been prescribed 20 mg of prozac daily, for the past 8 years. I'm pretty sure I missed 75% of those doses when I was drunk. I know all that alcohol stopped the positive affects that prozac was capable of providing me. The thing is, I'm not really noticing an improvement in my mood yet after taking 20 mg, every single day for the past 14 days in a row. Understandably, I didn't expect that sobriety was going to be a ray of sunshine or a walk in the park. I did think the prozac, once taking...

[QUOTE][I]The chairperson at a meeting I attended recently, who is also a member of AA, shared on this "Open Letter to the Alcoholic," which I've always thought was very powerful. I hadn't read it for a while, so it was a good reminder to me. The letter appears in the Al-Anon pamphlet "Three Views of Alcoholism." If you're not familiar with it, I've included it here:[/I][/QUOTE]

I am an alcoholic. I need your help.
[LIST][*]Don't lecture, blame or scold...