Untangling the Web of Alcohol Abuse & ADHD

If ever I felt that I was showing too much of my real self, I simply drank more. I became the girl I thought I had to be in order to be loved.

Drinking did for me what I couldn’t do for myself: it hid my insides from the outside world. It concealed the parts of me that I deemed unacceptable and unlovable.

I am inherently beautiful and worthy, exactly as I am.