A former alcoholic tells her fight against the drink: discover her poignant testimony (VIDEO)

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For more than ten years, Laurence Cottet was an alcoholic. The road to sobriety has been a titanic struggle for her. Today she recounts.

As we know, summer often rhymes with the feast, which often results in higher alcohol consumption than usual, especially in periods of celebration such as the World Cup. ends or the coming national holiday.

But for many, drinking alcohol rhymes with festivities, for others, it's more like a nightmare. This is the case for example of Laurence Cottet, senior executive within the French group Vinci. As she tells the digital media Brut, her alcoholism lasted more than ten years.

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  I always had a flask of orange vodka in my bag ", she says, not without forgetting her techniques to mask the ethyl breath with her relatives: coffee beans and quilts.

Getting out of such an addiction is not easy at all: "
  One day we realize that if you do not have your dose of alcohol, you will not survive. If I do not have my dose of alcohol, I am full of anxieties ", continues Laurence Cottet.Boir thus give the illusion to stay alive.

And to remain discreet, a secret organization is needed: "
  A typical day for me is first to look at my work schedule and tell me "when can I drink?" "

One day, on the occasion of the wishes of the new year in her company, Laurence Cottet had the click to stop. After a long therapy, she is now sober. From now on, she fights so that her story does not reach the others, in particular the women, more vulnerable than the men, in particular at the level of the social image.

And to conclude by recalling that, if for tobacco, everything was put in place not to start and to stop, in matters of alcohol, "
  everything remains to be done. "