I started drinking when I was 17 – it was purely in a social sense and for fun. I continued to drink and party for fun until my 20s, but there was never any negativity attached to it.
Later on though, when my mum Consy got ill, it changed from drinking to have fun to drinking to avoid how I really felt in situations.
It went from a positive connotation to a negative one and I was in complete denial about it. It's only looking back now that I realise what I was doing.
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