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Hitting Rock Bottom: The Ugliness of where I have just been

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To be fair, it wasn't always bad.  But it hasn't been great for a long time.  I found this picture I had uploaded as a profile picture to Facebook, New Year of 2008: A friend had commented and affectionately called me an "alcky".  Little did she (or I) know how close she had come to the truth, 14 years ago. The "routine drinking" started in 2006.  I had just left my first job as a young engineer with Shell UK under stressful conditions, and started a new job in a small consultancy.  Unfortunately the stress followed me to my new job, and I was faced with debilitating insomnia.  Living in Aberdeen, where the summer days started getting bright at 2am, it was a nightmare.  To cut a long story short, after months of trying this and that, I worked out that if I drank a bottle of wine a night, I could sleep.  This was the start of my undoing. What followed was 15 years of drinking, every.single.day  (save for a 5 month hiatus in 2020, a story for a...
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Welcome to (a) Long Shot: A New Beginning

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Long Shot - In photography, filmmaking and video production, a wide shot (sometimes referred to as a full shot or long shot) is a shot that typically shows the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surroundings. - Wikipedia Welcome to my new blog, a seemingly appropriate thing to start to mark a new beginning.  With a seemingly appropriate title to capture my intentions of sharing my experiences in their entireity, as opposed to focusing on the rosy and the pretty.  And a timely new beginning that halted my hurtling towards an untimely demise. More to come.  The road is long.
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