Who are we?

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Tipene: "Loved it, loved it!  Oh my God, loved it! I mean, I relapsed after 8½ years clean and I loved it again. It was so intense – that love – it’s a complete love, there’s no hate about it. It’s just a love relationship. That’s what makes it so powerful, so destructive for me, because that becomes more important than my relationship to me."

Dale: I never thought that that’s what was going to happen, eh? Never in my wildest dreams. But, shit, that’s where I ended up, on the wrong side of the law.

Maddy: I felt like I’d been running around with lots of big blindfolds on. I also felt like I didn’t really know anyone around me either. Like, everyone had been running around wearing big masks, and I’d certainly been wearing a big mask, pretending that I was fine, and I really wasn’t, behind it.

Trent: You look at a lifeline.  If someone gave me a lifeline right now and that moment, if I had my lifeline, I’d just draw with a big black cloud. That’s where the storm was starting to brew. That was it for me.

Kirsty: I hated it. I used to cry myself to sleep most nights, and just thinking “I need to fucking stop”. But I didn’t know how and because of the amount that I smoked I thought “Fuck, it’s going to take me so long to get over this”.

Greg: It gave me a disconnection from all the crap in my life, and it was like a veneer that I could see it but I didn’t have to worry about it. I didn’t have to feel it.

Jacki: I guess I was just a broken person. You know how something so deep on the inside of you, it’s like your spirit breaks? And you shut off, and you shut down, and you close down. It’s almost like I found it really hard to feel emotions. I couldn’t love anyone. I didn’t know what it was to love.