someone who is "white-knuckling", unhappy with sobriety, emotionally unstable, that type of thing.
like Bam says, replace 'sobriety' with 'life' - and that was me before I ever lifted a glass to my lips LOL.
Some ppl do just fine with just...not drinking anymore
For me, to stay stopped I had to look at lots of stuff in me and in my life and act on it - and continue to act on it and change things, right up to today.
Doesn't make me better than anyone else, it's just what *I* needed to do
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