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When sobriety makes you question what parts of your personality were real

I got sober and realized how much of my personality was just me drunk, and now I don't know what's authentically me versus what was the addiction talking.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Recovery can strip away coping mechanisms so fundamental that it becomes unclear where the substance ended and the authentic self began.

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