I made a real mess out of my life about a decade ago. My social skills were abysmal. I was giving my body to any man who would give me the time of day. It is a miracle I made it out of that without any STDs. And I was drinking way too much. And then the mental health issues started, and I tried dealing with them by drinking some more. I burned countless bridges. And I was treating it all likenit was everybody else's fault. For a while, I was every bit as narcissistic as the people who raised me. It took an extended hospitalization and a crash course in AA to get me to start putting my life together. I could continue to mourn the childhood I never had, or I could figure out how to use my experiences to assist myself and others. I want the latter option. |