Originally Posted by
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Yeah I told my doctor. It's funny, the first time he told me to just drink less. He also recommended I see a shrink to get depression treated, and gave me a few names.
The second time he told me to quit outright and not taper. And when I went in for something unrelated, he asked how it was going.
At first she asked me if I had considered drinking less, or moderating. And I thought to myself, it would be easy to let her lead me down that way and take it as an endorsement to moderate.
Instead, I persisted and said I have tried to cut down for several years and think it's beyond that. She said, "so you have an addiction." And I said yes.
It felt liberating just to tell another person, "yes, I have a problem with addiction."