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Originally Posted by rammstein
Supe-
You mention that you had a major issue a few years ago and you are worried about a relapse. In my experience, you won't relapse for the simple reason that you've been down that road before, and you are already recognizing it. It's hard to mess up twice. .
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Ramm, that is so insightful. And true. You recognize your flaws, mistakes and you hopefully face them. What is hard to deal with is that a lot of people, including me, keep dreaming about those failings when they sleep. With a few of you that I have met when I got to "lubricated", I've shared some of my personal history. Well-to-do upbringing, fell down BIG, BIG time in my late teens (in ways that would open most of you would never have imagined, and I'm not going to post here) , got back up, put myself through undergraduate and graduate school at huge personal effort, and am doing very well at age 55. All I can do is say "I am what I am" and I look in the mirror and have no one to praise or blame but who I see. I don't want this to sound petty or contrite, but Supe, you can definitely get through this. You're apparently active, health and employed. You are in a better financial and security conditon than about 90% of the World population. After what I've seen in the world, you are a prince among men, relatively speaking.