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People who know me on the other side of this virtual realm we've created have heard me say at least once 'if you ever see me with a bottle in my hand, stay away. Whatever it is, it's really really bad and you need to leave me alone.'

I stopped one time for 10 years, 11 months. Did that three months after my 21st birthday. I'm just not good at it NineClaws. I fuckin suck at it. I have issues—twisted points of view like buy four 1/2 pints so they don't see you with a 5th. Wake up in strange places, once in a whole other state!.. Don't remember the plane ride or airport or anything. No idea where I am or how I got there, how I'm gonna get where I'm going and who these people are. 'Where's my truck?'

All that and I suck at it so bad all I'm concerned about is how I can't believe I passed out with whiskey in the bottle. I should stop now.

Ahhh, yeah, that's intense.
This I get, although it's not been alcohol for me, I know this way of seeing things:

I have issues—twisted points of view like buy four 1/2 pints so they don't see you with a 5th.

I hear where you're coming from with this, the struggle, the distorted perceptions, the continual craving. Do any of us get to live in this world without being shattered in one or several ways? I doubt it.