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Does it take a broken person to help a broken person?

How can you know someone’s pain unless you’ve felt it yourself?

Dermot Mc Donough
The Startup
Published in
5 min readMay 29, 2019

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“I know your pain”

I am an addiction counsellor and am also a recovering alcoholic. I would consider myself having empathy for people suffering from addiction. However, I don’t know their pain. How can I? How can anyone? Do you…

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Dermot Mc Donough
The Startup

I am from Ireland, married with 2 sons. I’m a Recovery Coach. My goal is to help people stay sober by highlighting risks they might encounter in early recovery.