Brenda Dennehy

The person has to be able to save themselves.

And that's the big thing as well.

It's no one in the world could have saved me.

No one.

My mother and father could have bought me a house if they would have said, stop drinking, we'll buy you a house or a new car, a new dog.

I still would have drank.

And I still would have drank.

Something has to click.

And like what you've said there now makes so much sense.

And I think for the family member, a lot of them find it really, really difficult cutting themselves off.

I know in your circumstance you had to.

I did.

Do you think the people who

you know, won't give up on them, which is like amazing what family do.

But do you think there comes to a certain stage where you just have to cut ties?

Yeah, that's it.

And do you know what?

When I went into treatment the first night, my mum came back in a couple of days to see me and she said, do you know that I had the first solid night's sleep the night you went into treatment?

My head initially went...

Why wasn't she devastated that I was gone away?