Harriet Strange started drinking and smoking weed when she was just 14
A woman who began abusing alcohol as a teenager in a bid to 'change the way she felt' knew things had to change when she fell pregnant.
"I used it as a coping mechanism. Others drank to have fun, but I was drinking because I was in pain. It was easy to conceal as people think teenagers do this. It was easy to hide behind the party girl type label". "My addiction, I made it more important than taking my medication. I was also self-harming, but that was not enough to stop me. I ended up in hospital, Christmas day 2018, and having no visitors made the alarm bells grow louder. Then I fell pregnant in 2019, that was when I knew I had to change".
"We met each week and held each other accountable. By knowing and listening to others I could relate to, I felt, finally, I was being understood. Harriet said: "When everyone else went home or went to sleep I would still be awake and continue. I would find someone to drink or use drugs with or go home and do it alone"
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