Art Memoir (progress)

My Art Memoir is the story of fifty years of alcohol and prescription drug addiction, the toll it atkes on one's life, the impact on others, the battle to overcome the addictions and finally how serenity looks.

Depression. I ran in to what i call the black cloud during my twenties at least that is when i first became aware of the issue, little did i know that it would take me forty five years to finally shake it off, many don't. Perhaps the reality is that you never really shake it off you simply learn to deal with it and control it. During this time there were some close scrapes. Alcohol consumption fuelled my depression add to this an addiction to prescription drugs and what you have is a vicious cycle of self destruction, anger, loneliness and delusion. 

Broken. What does it mean to be broken? in my case many years of emotional pain that is so strong that it changes the way you live, it changes how you behave, it changes how you think. Being kept apart from one of my children had a profound and damaging effect on my mental state. 

Dependance. Alcohol consumption triggered anxiety in order to combat the anxiety i began taking Benzodiazepine.   

A Part. Parental alienation is a form of psychological manipulation that sees one parent fostering negative feelings towards the other parent, potentially causing long-term emotional damage to both the child and the alienated parent. Malicious Parent Syndrome is a type of vengeful behaviour exibited by some divorcing or separated parents. They typically  deliberately place the other parent  in a bad light and harm their childs relationship with that parent. The situation can lead to mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders and other psychomatic disorders.  