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[quote=Anonymous][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.

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

Very few people make it into their 40s or 50s without frequent drinking turning into a big problem. In your 20s it’s fun, starts to cause problems in your 30s and then life tends to hit people hard in their 40s.  [/quote]

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