New_thinking
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Well. I've never really done this before and I I'm not quite sure where to start. I've had social anxiety, rumination, resentment issues for a few years. I'm a recovering alcoholic, I tried to self medicate which isn't the best idea. I always gravitated towards drugs to alleviate my symptoms and it only exacerbated the problem. I always had problems getting along with my parents and friends. I've lost a few friends, but gained them back. I was kicked out of my parents a couple times due to my alcohol use when i was about 17 and 20. I was home schooled until 8th grade, and my mother was very qualified to teach. whenever I got close to some one in my younger days I would have trouble getting along with them. I've gotten way better about that though. The two most recent things in my life that didn't go well, I joined the United States marine Corps back in 2008, I was 0311 infantry, but the reserves. When I got back from ITB ( infantry training battalion) Which is what you go to after recruit training, I was good to go. But eventually I got very bored, lost a lot of motivation. A lot of my friends from before had moved away, or just had different lives. I started drinking here and there, then it turned into every day. I would lift weights, then sit on the computer all day, and playing war craft 3. my drinking got more and more, to the point where i would have bottles of vodkah stashed in m dresser. my dad found it one time and said, dont do this it will ruin your life. Well I did it any ways. I eventually started spending time with one of my good friends from high school who had overdosed on heroin while I was at ITB. Well i never saw or touched the heroin. But we did start doing cocaine. for like a month i was doing coke every day, i would drink a 3rd of a bottle of everclear just so i could "sleep" at night. Well eventually i got kicked out of my parents, and moved into my friends moms place, shes a good woman. He went to prison for herion though. I did ok there, I did my part basically cleaned every day becuase they never ever cleaned and it was disgusting. I still drank a lot. But i got along with his mom and little brother very well. Anyways, I was about to go on a meu (marine expeditionary unit) which is just a ship that can deliver marines to any beach we might need to assault. But it was just a co op training float. We were going to train with (train them) countries from south east asia. Well i was excited for this, they were even going to open a new part of the jungle in Thailand for us to train in, there would be deadly snakes, Big cats. Cool ass ****. Well I had not smoked and weed since before bootcamp, but the night before I was going to go sign my orders, me and a couple friends were drinking. They pulled out a blunt so I smoked with them. When we went to go sign our orders, they drug tested us. I was ****ed. Done, its zero tolerance in the marine corps now. I developed a substance abuse problem because of my anxiety. I know this is long, and not very structured, but so are my thoughts.