Today is my birthday, I am 1. I was born on the 15/01/1989 but i was re-born on the 17/12/14.

That's when my new life began, that's the day i got clean from drink and drugs.

My whole life i always felt as though i didn't fit in anywhere, i always felt like an outcast, the black sheep of the family.

I turned to drugs at the age of 11, mainly just to fit in, or so i thought, but i got something from them that made me feel better.

By the time i was 14 i had turned to harder drugs, class A drugs, i absolutely loved the feeling i got from them.

I was 17 when i first really picked a drink up and i found what i was searching for, absolute annihilation.

The drink stopped my head from racing, but after a few years it just got too painful, i didn't want to carry on using but i had no choice, i just couldn't stop, so i decided to take my own life, when it didn't work i felt cheated because i wanted the pain to end.

 I finally managed to get into a treatment center where i struggled to begin with but did a lot of work on myself.

My life is completely different today, i actually have one, it hasn't been easy but it's definitely been worth it.

I'm almost 27 but today i turned 1.  

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The third line sounds like something from the Jeremy Kyle excuse book about screwing up your  life, and then the light comes on, and instead of a headlong race to oblivion, it then becomes a great story about nailing your demons once and for all, and getting his life back.

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