Personal Narrative: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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The transformation for me was becoming sober. I have been clean from drugs and alcohol since March 13, 1997. I moved back home with my parents and started to help them with their daily life as they were helping me to start a new and sober life. I hadn’t seen my parents in 20 years and realized that if there was ever going to be a time for us to mend fences and grow now was the time. I spent almost twenty years with them. Both my parents had major medical and health issues that required me to assist in their life. I am so blessed to have been there to help them. I don’t know if they realized that they were helping me as well. I was learning how to deal with life on a day to day basis sober and finding out how happy life

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