Aa Beyond Belief

Kayleigh P.'s drinking crept up on her seemingly out of nowhere. It was a problem long before she knew it was a problem. This is her story. As a young girl, Kayleigh was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, a painful disease that for periods of time made it impossible for her to walk. But it was more than physical pain that she endured, there was also emotional damage as the disease eroded her self-esteem. After a decade of treatments that never worked, she had had enough. Frustrated, she convinced herself that she no longer had the disease; and she began to self-medicate with drugs and alcohol.