January 2015

Wild in Hong Kong

A teen lets loose in the bar district and finds it’s much harder to stop than she thought

I got sober at the age of 19. I only drank for about four years, but I really made those four years count. As a child, I always felt like something was wrong. I started seeing therapists when I was 10. Things on the outside in my life were pretty good: I had two parents, a roof over my head and I went to good schools. Yet I was always in conflict. I suffered from anxiety and depression, which in those days they did not diagnose in kids. I was just considered a willful, sensitive, weird child who was always in trouble at home.

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