Patrick Graham

Were you shy?

Yeah, I was really out of my depth socially.

I couldn't talk to people.

I found it very difficult to express myself to anybody or to say how I felt to anybody.

I remember in my second year in college, I was invited out by the lads to have a pint.

And he brought me up to Baggar Street, which was unknown at the time.

It was really a dark street with Donoghue's pub and troners, I think.

And we went in and had a pint and some miracle happened.

It was this extraordinary kind of revelation drink was, in a sense.

I felt totally at one with myself for the first time ever in my life.

I felt this extraordinary sense of freedom, ability to talk, ability to express myself in a way.

And addiction from the word go.

There was no treatment centres at the time.

And I was very fortunate to be one of the very first people to go into

the

Rutland Centre.

So that was after many years of drinking.

18, I think.

But you checked yourself in and you got off it.

Yeah, I was checked in by other people as well.

So I got help along the way.

Yes, I did.

Yeah, I eventually stopped.

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