Originally Posted by
THE KING 
....is there anything you miss about the days when you could drink? christmas? new years?
Sure, there are some things I miss. Alcohol made it easy for me to be around large groups of people. I lost many of my inhabitations and would talk to anybody. But the flip side of that is: I would drink too much and say some really stupid stuff, tick people with my rude and inappropriate behavior, and start some crap with total strangers.
Today I manage to get out to social events without resorting to drink so as to ease my anxiety. I admit it isn’t always easy and sometimes I take a psych med to help me with my anxiety. But for the most part I don’t use the meds and I am learning to feel the anxiety and do it anyway.