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“...all the things we do, every maladaptive behavior or pattern we have, is the result of a coping mechanism we learned in order to keep us alive or help us survive...I wasn't deceiving people because I was a piece of shit; I was doing what I had learned to do as a child to survive. And I was doing what worked. It just wasn't - let's say - a superhealthy or productive way to operate as an adult.”
― Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life