Originally Posted by littlestranger

Hi Daphne, I missed most of the rest thread after I posted on it but have been catching up now


I did that too, I had unresolved issues I was dragging along for years, and to some extent drinking was self-medicating. I never could have adressed them properly while I was drinking. I needed a clear head for this, and I needed my mind and my emotions to be unadultered by the numbing effects of alcohol. There were things I had to go all the way through to feel better again, and with alcohol this wouldn't have worked for me. So I am on team "tackle the symptom in order to be able to adress hte problem"