1-800-343-TLAP: ‘That Call Changed My Life’

Eleven years ago on Mother’s Day, I was driving down a winding Texas Hill Country road thinking about how much I loathed who I had become. I had been abusing alcohol for years and had severe, untreated depression.

I was lying to my employer about the work I was doing (I was not doing it). I would not return client phone calls knowing they would remind me I was not doing the job I was entrusted to do. I was deeply ashamed that I was throwing away the career my family had cleared the path for through their many sacrifices. I tried but could not stay sober. I read self-help books, but still felt numb and hopeless.