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Hooked - Addiction and the Long Road to Recovery (Paperback)
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Hooked - Addiction and the Long Road to Recovery (Paperback)
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List price R392
Loot Price R318
Discovery Miles 3 180
You Save R74 (19%)
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Shortlisted for the 2022 Sports Book Awards 'brave ... visceral ...
a brilliant, brilliant read ... I would recommend this book to
everyone.' Nihal Arthanayake, BBC Radio 5 Live 'so honest ...
everybody should read Hooked to understand what anybody in this
situation has been through.' Susanna Reid, Good Morning Britain 'a
fantastic book ... a remarkable read.' Richard Madeley, Good
Morning Britain 'Brave, poignant and very moving. This book will
change lives.' Jamie Redknapp 'A courageous, emotional and vitally
important book.' Jeff Stelling Paul Merson's wonderfully moving and
brutally honest memoir of battling addiction for three decades. For
twenty-one years Paul Merson played professional football. He won
two First Division titles with Arsenal and was one of the finest
players of his generation. But for thirty years Paul Merson has
also been an addict. Alcohol, drugs, gambling: a desperately
unenviable cocktail of addictions and depression which has plagued
his entire adult life and driven him to the verge of suicide. 'I've
come to realise that I'm powerless over alcohol ... I'm an
alcoholic. My drinking and gambling have left a lot of wreckage.'
Until recently the drinking and gambling were still raging. 'I
wanted to kill myself. I couldn't go on anymore. I just couldn't
see a way out.' Then something clicked. 'One day, I was walking
home from the pub late on a Sunday evening, and I thought to
myself: I've had enough of feeling like this, every day of my life.
I rang up Alcoholics Anonymous the next day, and since then I
haven't had a drink.' Hooked is Merson's wonderfully moving and
brutally honest memoir of battling addiction, searingly charting
his journey over three decades. It is absolutely unflinching in
detailing his emotional and psychological troughs and in raking
over the painful embers of an adult life blighted by such
debilitating issues. Hooked will kick-start a crucial national
conversation about addiction, depression and the damage they wreak.
'Addiction is the loneliest of places. You're a slave to insecurity
and ego. But it has to be you that wants things to change. Never be
afraid to talk: the more you talk about the addictions the more it
takes the power out of them. You're never alone.'
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