What is one of your stories of triumph?

when i was in high school i lost almost all my friends, i was an alcoholic abuser, and got diagnosed with chronic depression. for years i was in meds, and i got kicked out of college. i couldn't stand myself.

then, with as little courage i could muster up, i enrolled in another college. i graduated one year earlier than my generation, i was an exchange student to the 3rd best university in the country (USA). i stopped talking to my mother and never got depressed again (it seems she projected herself toward me all her life), getting out of college i fought like hell with my dad (it seems he has narcissist personality disorder); a few years ago a became a catholic christian again, i am starting two small business; and have been diagnosed with sleep apnea (to which i have a special machine that corrects it)

now i love my life everysingle day, and can't believe how i feel about myself. i am so happy of who i am today... and feel someday i will wake up from this wonderful dream!

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What is one of your stories of triumph?viruses

Ah yes, the self fulfilling prophesy. I recognize it well. Adult children of alcoholics confront this every day. I, too, picked myself up by my bootstraps and worked my way back from the ''pit'' to life. I crashed into a moving wall or it crashed into me, not sure. I was also sexually abused during my teen yrs by a couple men. Alcohol? Everyone I knew practically was a guzzler. Suffice it to say that by the time I was admitted to the local looney bin I was a total basket case.