Recovery Stories
Stories from people that the SDT has helped….
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GP by Day, Alcoholic by Night
On reflection, I don’t think that I ever drank ‘normally’ like my friends did. I had always felt awkward, not really ‘one of the in-crowd’.
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The Binge Drinker
What I just couldn’t understand was that even though I thought I was only a binge drinker and so didn’t drink every day, I was still an alcoholic.
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SDT Talk Started Recovery
A 25 year-old Foundation Doctor realised she had an alcohol problem following a talk given by a member of the Sick Doctors Trust as part of
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Questions Asked at Work
A 35 year old SPR5 approached a consultant involved with the Sick Doctors Trust at the same hospital for advice and to talk about his drinking. Over the previous two years, he and his friends noticed a change in that he often became violent when drunk.
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My Denial
I must have done every available alcohol or addiction questionnaire on the internet to justify my intake. Even though every single one scored me as an addict, my denial prevented me from both seeing and accepting that I was in trouble.
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Cocaine Possession
A 25 year old trainee surgeon was on a night out with friends in the city centre. He used cocaine very occasionally and only at weekends with friends who were not medical, and drank socially. Unfortunately