(((( Wendy ))))

How are you sweetheart?

Including the live-in alcohol treatment which followed the advice of AA and the twelve steps at 16, going into my first court ordered therapy for a DUI at age 20 that ran off and on til I was aged 30 because of repeat offenses, the entire time reading, researching, and applying a number of popular therapies, visiting therapists thru mental health in 1985, again in 1987, off and on through the 1990's til it was finally suggested to me in 2000 that I take medication. I used zoloft for about a year, then quit til I began therapy and medication again in May of this year.

Thank you for your kind words... it ain't been easy. I've read books full of "answers", but never really knew how to apply them to my own life. Even just six months ago I was at a very low spot. Progressivly over the years I continued an uphill climb that I feel just now is beginning to crest.

Going to work in social services is the only way I could see to make use of all I've experienced. For me, using the abuse against the abuse has a poetic justice. In my thinking, it brings the lesson full circle. Maybe it doesn't apply to anyone else, in which case all I've said is pointless and was meant for my benefit alone. I understood before I ever asked the questions publicly, but had only asked myself, what the answers were. This thread has only been an effort to share what I'd discovered. If it doesn't apply, then it doesn't apply.

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we fall." Confucius