Originally Posted by
MrQuit 
I keep drinking because it's one of the only things I've always ever known. A part of my personality that's existed since my earliest memories. A norm.
But there are other norms too which aren't destructive - good things - this keeps me drinking too. The bottom line is that the status quo can't maintain. The wind is in the weathervane.
This is why I ask for your tips :-)
Now, you make sense. I drank and drugged from my mid teens. My ONLY reason EVER was to get stoned. I am having to relearn, or reinvent, my life. That sentence is the whole of my journey. And, THAT'S HUGE!