Just prior to treatment, I was drinking stronger spirits, alone in my bedroom on a daily basis, until I reached what I now understand to be a point of no return. I had become someone that I didn't like and felt that there was no way out. I fought to hide my addiction from the world around me and my alcohol binges grew closer together as I drank larger quantities to dull the pain. With each drink, my pain grew and I drank more to survive in the life that I felt like I didn't belong in. I believed that it was my support, my friend and my coping mechanism.
#The end of my addiction how to#
My life slowly crumbled, but I continued to abuse alcohol as it was the only way I knew how to live. Through my actions, I hurt the people that I loved most in the world, I lost friends as I isolated myself and I struggled to hold down the job that I had worked so hard to achieve. I can say addiction now, but at the time, I was in complete denial, with no understanding of my illness and a total disregard for the chaos that I created. My behaviour over the next 12 years became progressively more destructive, dangerous and out of control as my addiction took hold. I began drinking alcohol heavily at around the age of 21. Now, six months after leaving Priory, they are living a life where they can see a positive future for themselves.
A former patient of The Priory Hospital Altrincham shares their story of living in the depths of addiction, going through treatment at Priory and regaining hope and happiness in their life.
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