Who do you think is/ was the most influential person
Why? What have they done to shape your life?
26-30, M
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KatyO83 · 36-40, F
There's one I have to mention as he's on here.
June 2014. My friend is concerned about my drinking and says "You should call this guy". She'd heard him at something about alcoholism where she worked.
I called him. He came to my old flat. I was drinking gin while he talked and the woman he'd brought along occasionally said something.
At some point he says "I'd drink too numb any emotion. Good or bad. Actually, especially the good as I didn't deserve them. If I felt successful I had to sabotage it as I didn't have a right to that."
I nearly dropped my drink. That could have been exactly me talking. I put that glass down and asked him how long he'd been sober. 10 years. I couldn't go 10 hours!
I poured all alchololic drink in the flat down the drain there and then. Next night I went to my first AA meeting with him. He was my sponsor for a long time. I'd never have got sober without him.
June 2014. My friend is concerned about my drinking and says "You should call this guy". She'd heard him at something about alcoholism where she worked.
I called him. He came to my old flat. I was drinking gin while he talked and the woman he'd brought along occasionally said something.
At some point he says "I'd drink too numb any emotion. Good or bad. Actually, especially the good as I didn't deserve them. If I felt successful I had to sabotage it as I didn't have a right to that."
I nearly dropped my drink. That could have been exactly me talking. I put that glass down and asked him how long he'd been sober. 10 years. I couldn't go 10 hours!
I poured all alchololic drink in the flat down the drain there and then. Next night I went to my first AA meeting with him. He was my sponsor for a long time. I'd never have got sober without him.