www.lifeprinciples.com “A ten year binge drinking habit gone in a day.” ‘I would say that from about ten years ago, I went from having a social drink to binge-drinking where I would regularly binge drink three-to-four-times-a-week, where I would pass out’, black out’, every single time. I would be absolutely devastated the next morning because I couldn’t remember what I had done. I had shown myself up, I lost my dignity, and I would be absolutely dying inside and would never want to drink again. But then, like I said, three-to-four-times-a-week became my habit – the cycle was just set a spiral downhill, because the more I did it, the less control I had of it. There were some really worse circumstances where I found I nearly got attacked I would not even know that I got attacked because there were moments when I would wake up and think how did I get here? It was absolutely devastating, because without drink I am very dignified and very in control of every other aspect of my life but the drink really did take a hold. I just put it by; that was society because everybody goes out and everybody gets wasted and I was in good company.’ Shokat ‘Tell me what happened, how did you overcome your problem?’ Mandy: ‘Well, I just came to the point were I knew that this was life-threatening. I knew that one particular time I would either vomit in my sleep and that would be it, or I would be attacked because I left myself open, completely open within that state. So, you know, it’s started …
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