I think you really need to understand that drinking never solves the problem, just puts it off and creates more problems. I know for me personally it took me years to admit I had a problem with drinking. I always tried to justify it, minimize it, that it really wasn't that bad. Truth was it never did help to drink, sure it numbed the feelings for a bit, but then it became the major problem. I used to live to drink, then soon enough I was so addicted that I had to drink to live. Let alone the drug interactions of taking meds for bipolar and alcohol, which can be dangerously fatal. I finally came to the final decision after the last time at the hospital after a binge I needed to stop. Because it was well beyond my will power, or ability to drink moderately. I was simply sick and tired of being sick and tired... But you have to make that choice.