They went around the circle at my first group meeting in the psychiatric hospital asking each of us in turn how we felt.

It wasn't long afterwards, as I recall, that I was prescribed psychiatric medication. 

Is anyone surprised that it took me eight years of relapsing on drugs and alcohol before I found 19 years of continuous recovery?

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