[QUOTE=basIam;2477874]So you are chosing to drink yourself to death?
If its just a choice, why not choose to not drink????
I'll wait here while you contemplate that...
Hi basIam
Wouldn't the world be an amazing place if everyone made the RIGHT choices!
I said drinking was learned behaviour which involved choice.This is a complex process over many years. Lots of things have reinforced my drinking , both unconscious and conscious, direct and indirect. It has involved forming a psychological association between alcohol and happy which is deeply ingrained.
Chosing not to drink is NOT an easy thing as I am sure everyone here knows !
I think the learned behaviour approach to alcohol puts more resposnibility on the drinker and is therefore a harder road to follow that seeing alcoholism as an illness/disease/genetic trait etc
To unravel and relearn non drinking behaviour that has been reinforced
over 30 years is a mammoth task.
I have already identified the triggers to my less socialable drinking habits- the 2 hours when I get in from work before my partner get homes is when I start to drink. I have tried unsuccessfully to delay this to cut out the amount drunk over all.