Christian Roy
- Age
- 45
- Sober Since
- December 15, 2017
- Sober For
- 8 Years & 275 Days
01 What it was like
I was in a constant self-sabotage mode. In short, I was consciously destroying myself. Too much pressure that I imposed on myself, I could not manage my emotions normally anymore. I had become a plague in the lives of people around me.
Too much pressure that I imposed on myself, I could not manage my emotions normally anymore.
02 What happened
Arrived what happened! I spent one night at the police station for threatening death. But I did not remember if it was true or if it was the people around me and the investigators who wanted to scare me.
03 What it is like now
Today it is really a pleasure to see that I am sane and physically good. I have the taste to do a lot of things. Not only drink and destroy harmony in my life. I clean up my life. I accept what I am. In spite of the therapies I continued to drink after a year or two of abstinence. Now I see alcohol as a poison, I do not want to have any more in my life.
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