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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do dry months at various times in the year just to break habits. I find drinking can easily creep up. I start to get into a habit of a drink after work or a bottle on a weekend with friends and it turns into maybe 7-10 drinks a week. I enjoy the taste and also the relaxation. But it does tend to make me a little bloated and puffy and so if I realize it has creeped up then I just stop drinking for a few weeks. I don’t find it difficult at all to not drink. Then I reset back to maybe 1-2 drinks a week and then when it creeps up again, I take a break again.[/quote]

This is the path worn by two people I know who eventually became fall down drunk alcoholics, which is why it can be so scary. It’s like a switch finally went off. One started having black outs that she laughed off as being just part of being a “little hungover” until one day she blacked out in a cab with colleagues /drinking buddies. The friends were gone by the time driver dropped her off at the ER.

On Christmas I learned my cousin’s wife had a similar situation except she has a kid she kept forgetting about. She seemed fine until she wasn’t. Ditto for another relative’s path to opioid addiction. Drugs prescribed to deal with a back injury became an issue for him.

If you are self medicating with alcohol, drugs, food, smoking etc to deal with social anxiety, depression, or other issues, you need to be  cautious.[/quote]

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