Before I was even of legal drinking age alcohol had destroyed my life. I suffered from anxiety and depression. I dropped out of high school. I spent time in mental institutions due to my fragile emotional state of mind. Ending my life was always in he back of my mind. I was involved in a serious drunken car crash at the age of eighteen. I joined the military at the age of nineteen and was kicked out fifteen months later due to my excessive drinking, depression and suicidal tendencies.
All of this before reaching the legal drinking age. Yes, alcohol certainly had beaten me up as I found myself limping into adulthood at the age of twenty-one.
