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254: What if your father annihilated the family?

This Is Actually Happening

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Alcoholism and Depression

"The only thing that calmed my anxiety was alcohol," she says. "I dropped out of a local community college after three semesters because I didn't want to be there" She stayed in an abusive relationship for almost eight years, and her father never returned from his first marriage. After he got engaged, the danger faded away as well when he no longer felt threatened.

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