Rachel Forde
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jun
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I obviously wasn't.
You know, I had a little bit of confidence.
But Brenda, I must emphasize that that feeling was very short lived.
But I constantly, I spent the next 20 years, I suppose, chasing that back.
I suppose it all started with drink.
But for me, it quickly escalated to other substances.
Not long after my first drink, I suppose I started with the slang, I suppose, buzzing off petrol.
and buzzing from deodorant and things like that.
That was probably my first incident with substance abuse.
And I loved that hype.
Deodorant cans were a big thing for me for a while.
And I actually had a conversation with my partner about it probably only two or three weeks ago.
We were in the car and I don't know how it came up, but I suppose with our children now at that age, like it was actually upsetting for the both of us.
We were like,
Like the kids are older than when I started.
If I even thought for a second that our kids at that age were in that much pain, Brenda, you know, that they had to go and find an outlet.
And I did.
I found an outlet in substances.
I suppose, like, I fully believe that I was born with this disease, you know, because up until...
Like up until later in my life, I had no real traumatic experience.
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