By Nicole Johnson — 2021
Delayed grief is sometimes triggered by an event later in life, experts say.
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Our culture has taught us that we do not have the privilege of being vulnerable like other communities.
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“Even where I live in St. Paul, known nationally for being the ‘crossroads of recovery,’” William said, “the stigma prevents people from thinking about alcoholics and other drug addicts as ‘good people with a bad illness.’”
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"I knew how progressive the disease was. I knew each time I used, I fell faster and faster. I knew when I went out that day I was a dead man. I didn't go out to do drugs. I went out to die."
I became a drug addict only years after I'd discovered my first true love: Compulsive thieving.