tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608671970498233434.post2304764078930627807..comments2023-05-27T09:26:06.821+01:00Comments on Drunk in Cardiff: Home is where the...The Drinkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06141069644806867122noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608671970498233434.post-79312969136281803222010-01-02T14:24:27.333+00:002010-01-02T14:24:27.333+00:00And, thank you Tom,
What a lovely long post and ...And, thank you Tom, <br /><br />What a lovely long post and your kind words are, well, kind and make me feel good and special and all those sorts of things. <br /><br />I'm glad you got out of it. I have days now when I can imagine not drinking, so maybe it's just a matter of time. <br /><br />I really appreciate the time you spent and the good intentions - it doesn't sound hollow at all, it sounds heartfelt dear boy. <br /><br />People who have made it are very useful to people who haven't yet. Oh, and give us a job! ;o) <br /><br />Take it steady young un.<br /><br />CDThe Drinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06141069644806867122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608671970498233434.post-62028341492428684332010-01-02T14:22:31.706+00:002010-01-02T14:22:31.706+00:00Thanks anonymous, I wish I knew which phrase it wa...Thanks anonymous, I wish I knew which phrase it was to which you refer, then I'd repeat it often...The Drinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06141069644806867122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608671970498233434.post-83954498779219562612010-01-02T09:24:07.895+00:002010-01-02T09:24:07.895+00:00Dear Cardiff:
I feel like it may sound so hollow a...Dear Cardiff:<br />I feel like it may sound so hollow after your brilliant description of your miserable depression, but I truly, truly enjoy your blog. At the same time I enjoy it, however, I see such a clear reflection of my own mind (the way it was until about 4 years ago, anyhow) that it frightens me. <br />You see I was clinically depressed also for about 10 years and just didn't know it, and certainly wouldn't listen to anybody who might suggest there was something wrong with me as well, even my Dad -- who is a brilliant physician. After all, I knew I was alcoholic, and crap, that was enough to deal with. The notion that drinking may not be a part of my life was an absolute joke deep down, as I knew it always would. So why bother trying to get help from a Doctor? I didn't need to be told I was mentally ill, as I knew I was miserable and life -- where it had once been a very colorful place, slowly lost its brightness and then indeed all color until everything was just in lighter and darker shades of gray.<br /><br />I thought I was destined to be in that horrible place forever, and damn near killed myself between all the drink, and the prescription pills and other things. I got with a violent girl who kicked me so hard one night (she was a brilliant doctor also, just a stark raving lunatic when she drank and drugged -- and all the time I suppose) that I fully ruptured my spleen off the main artery. Twice I died as I bled out, and twice they revived me, and here I am. Here I am writing an alter ego and saying there is hope, whilst knowing it will fall on deaf ears. Or as I started to say, it would sound hollow -- though I know you wish it didn't. After messing around with a shrink for years and taking this pill and that pill nothing worked for a damn until I went to rehab, and got on the right mix of meds to treat a dual diagnosis. But hell, my response is turning into a blog of its own. You can read a few of my accounts, though I am working on other projects and don't have barely the time I'd like to for writing. You are extremely talented and shall write a fantastic book using some of your material, once out the other end. More later, Take care, Tom Rees - sober and happy again for 4 years. Sounds like I am bragging but I am not--just trying to say it can be done, when you find the drinking is to drown the depression. Once the depression is fully gone the URGE to drink can indeed miraculously lift, as it did for me, and I hope will for you one day. Tom ReesThomas Reeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18310201955064795723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608671970498233434.post-16712301804834231332010-01-02T09:06:56.918+00:002010-01-02T09:06:56.918+00:00It seems magnificent phrase to me isIt seems magnificent phrase to me isAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com