Just - You have good experience shared in this thread.
All I can add is that I would be a fool not to have been candid with my doctors about my drinking history. I could care less about labels but when it comes to my health - physical/mental it is of the utmost importance for me to lay my cards out there so my healthcare providers can help me. How you refer to yourself is on you but yeah....my years of hardcore boozing is not something I keep to myself when it comes to my health.
Kinda funny but no one diagnosed me as anything. I knew what I was and reached out. Nothing has affected me in terms of insurance, health care, etc.
I don't have tons of people in my life but the ones I have now care about me.
Don't let something so petty get in your way. Labels are the last thing on my mind....how I live life now is what matters
