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Aimless
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13 Oct 2010, 8:09 am

Ackman wrote:
I'm already there. That last bottle of SoCo helped me out.


I am very well acquainted with using alcohol to self medicate. What people told me then was true but I couldn't see it until

I stopped. It just sets up a vicious cycle of bad feelings>substance abuse>bad feelings + guilt and shame> substance

abuse. I had to stop drinking and get counseling to see it. I had to learn that I could survive my feelings.



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13 Oct 2010, 8:19 am

As long as I have them, then i'm safe.