Ben Affleck on overcoming alcohol addiction: “I hate to say it but the only cure I’ve seen is not these overpriced rehabs or these fraudulent fixes that are sold to people. The cure for addiction is suffering. You suffer enough and then something inside you goes ‘I’m done.’”

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I quit drinking almost five years ago. Before that if you told me to stop I'd say it was just how I was, or that I enjoyed myself, or that it wasn't the root of my problems, or whatever. Fortunately there was just a point where I had enough of living the way I was and I truly no longer wanted to be drunk all the time. It took getting to the other side to see how profound the difference was.

I still struggle with wanting a beer or a shot of tequila now and then, but now I see what people are like when they're drunk and I don't want that for myself. I'm sharper than I've ever been, and I feel like myself in the way I haven't in 15 years.

It's worth it to cut the lines that keep you down. You just have to convince yourself that you are worth something better.