A true story of recovery & triumph The power of the mind can debilitate the strongest person, don't let your negative thoughts hinder your future. This mesmerizing story includes: How Ray battled to survive as a child Overcoming child abuse Battling school bullies How addiction started Overcoming suicide attempts Moving past depression & panic attacks Beating depersonalization His tainted relationship with his mother How he became sober after 18-years Trying to move past his mother & grandmother's demise

On the night before her wedding, her future father-in-law had climbed onto her bed, reached out his hands with the intention of cheating her, and accidentally stabbed her stepfather when she was drunk.With the impending prison disaster, Nance was forced to leave and began his three years of pursuit.Three years later, a marriage contract, love and hate entanglement began.The world was conserved, love and hate were sometimes, he was poison, she was a good medicine, love and hate entangled, love and hate and redemption ...

Pure: Memoirs of Sex, Abuse and Addiction takes a look at the topics of Sex, Physical and Mental Abuse, and various addictions and puts them in a reality style format- leaving it up to the reader whether to determine if they are reality or works of glorious fiction.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Digital Subjects: Videogames, Technology and Identity -- 2 Datafied Subjects: Profiling and Personal Data -- 3 Private Subjects: Secrecy, Scandal and Surveillance -- 4 Beastly Subjects: Bodies and Interfaces -- 5 Synthetic Subjects: Horror and Artificial Intelligence -- 6 Mobile Subjects: Framing Selves and Spaces -- 7 Productive Subjects: Time, Value and Gendered Feelings -- Index

This book is a compilation of drug-addiction / substance abuse/alcohol addiction and its management/treatment is dedicated to the memory of those “unfortunate victims” who lost their precious lives at the altar of this terrible disease — this menace continues to be an enigmatic social and medical challenge.

This book delves into the mind, soul, and heart of the author. Sadness, anger, and darkness. PTSD, depression, anxiety, shock, and rage.

Serialized in Esquire, A.A. Gill's Pour Me a Life is a riveting meditation on the author's alcoholism, seen through the lens of the memories that remain, and the transformative moments that saved him from a lifelong addiction and early death. “Pour Me a Life is an unapologet­ically honest, raw, and often har­rowing account of the life of a man who, up until now, we only thought we knew. Here is A.A. Gill at his best. A real-life Bright Lights, Big City.” —Eric Ripert, chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin, and author of the New York Timesbestseller 32 Yolks Best known for his hysterically funny and often scathing restaurant reviews for the London Sunday Times, A.A. Gill’s Pour Me a Life is a riveting memoir of the author’s alcoholism, seen through the lens of the memories that remain, and the transformative moments in art, food, religion, and family that saved him from a lifelong addiction and early death. By his early twenties, at London’s prestigious Saint Martin’s art school, journalist Adrian Gill was entrenched in alcoholism. He writes from the handful of memories that remain, of drunken conquests with anonymous women, of waking to morbid hallucinations, of emptying jacket pock­ets that “were like tiny crime scenes,” helping him puzzle his whereabouts back together. Through­out his recollections, Gill traces his childhood, his early diagnosis of dyslexia, the deep sense of isolation when he was sent to boarding school at age eleven, the disappearance of his only brother, whom he has not seen for decades. When Gill was confronted at age thirty by a doctor who questioned his drinking, he answered honestly for the first time, not because he was ready to stop, but because his body was too dam­aged to live much longer. Gill was admitted to a thirty-day rehab center—then a rare and revolu­tionary concept in England—and has lived three decades of his life sober. Written with clear-eyed honesty and empathy, Pour Me a Life is a haunting account of addiction, its exhilarating power and destructive force, and is destined to be a classic of its kind.