My victory

My achievement is a half of the year without any alcohol. Maybe, it’s not so much - but I will not turn aside from this way. I’ve been seeking for it all my life, but could not find. For more than thirty years I had a feeling that I was a social outcast. And it was like that: I had left my Motherland, Russia, in my childhood. My parents, like many other people at that time immigrated to Germany. It is thought that children can get accustomed easier to a new situation, but I was an exception. In Munich where we moved, I did not communicate almost to anybody, only a year after the move I got acquainted with my future friend who also had come from the USSR. Later I had more such acquaintances. We created our own world, the environment which was comfortable for us. But domestic comfort is nothing, as compared to the heartache, and that was the pain we experienced abroad.

Very soon we began to earn and go on a spree. We’ve been drinking nights long. Time after time I increased the dose, proving to myself, that I could afford more, that I did not depend on the alcohol, that I managed everything. For a long time I succeeded in it, but heavy hangovers began to appear more frequently. By that time I had got a family already. My wife thought that her love could help me to give up a drinking-bout. I thought the same, but I was not able...now the drinking-bout already ruled me. But what ruined me, that saved: in my surroundings abuse was not a wonder. Every second person took in something, knew where one could get it and where one could find help. So, I’ve found Polynar. The necessity of distant journey did not stop me. I felt as if only my native land could return me for normal life. I’ve been treated in the Clinic for half a year already. Here I met really important people in my life. They did put me on feet literally. Special thanks to Nelly Klimchenko – the leading doctor of the Clinic. If it were not she, my wife and my child could stay without their bread-winner. I was taught to feel responsibility in the Clinic. Patients care of each other here. The system is created so that you feel yourself as a part of quiverful which needs you and which you cannot let down. But in its turn, it does not trick you, on the contrary, it allows you to support on it. We discuss our problems, we study to understand each other and ourselves, we study to find the way in life again.