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As a person that survived and eventually overcame a life-threatening addiction to alcohol, I would like to give well-deserved acknowledgment to the role that music has played in strengthening me during my darkest times, and how it helps sustain me today.
Maybe I’m lucky that music influences my sense of well-being the way it does, though I’ve read evidence to support that up to 95% of the human population feels pleasure from listening to music. I listen to music as much as possible and know when it’s time to take a break from it because I can no longer feel it. (Plus it’s not always appropriate.) As a person that loved to party, my drunken experiences always seemed enhanced by music, but in retrospect, I’m beginning to understand what an illusion those experiences were. Throughout the many home detoxes I survived when I was still enslaved, I would be completely unreceptive to music. It was only after suffering through those first few days that I could start to receive it, and being able to receive music again was always a strong indicator that I was safely out of woods. Surviving alcohol detoxes on my own was a dangerous and terrifying ordeal. Being able to feel music again was always a huge relief for me; it facilitated my healing and demonstrated…
