![]() “I noticed that my drinking no longer looked normal,” Boucher said. Not only had she stopped drinking but never took any medication again in her life. She went into treatment and never looked back.”īoucher said she was inspired by her mother after she had been sober for seven years. “After 35 years of doctors medicating her and telling her she was depressed, she went to Toledo and a doctor there told her she was an alcoholic. “My mother had a near fatal accident, fell down the stairs and broke her neck,” Boucher said. ![]() I was an emotional roller coaster.”īoucher now says that doctors could have simply told her to stop drinking but everyone was dancing around the real issue, the same way doctors had been treating her mother for decades. I couldn’t make good decisions and couldn’t stick with things that were important. “But it got to where I was disintegrating internally. ![]() “I was not a daily drinker back then,” Boucher said. But Boucher said her story is unique because she crossed the line and stopped drinking completely by the age of 29. ![]() When Boucher left home, she didn’t think her drinking was problematic or “alcoholic” in nature, though she admits she did use alcohol to self-medicate. ![]()
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