Originally Posted by
dwtbd 
Is it grey or gray ? hmm I think I use them based on mood.
Since threads are exercises in thinking and bouncing thoughts off one and other, lets go all the way white or black and ungre(a)y it.
How would it look or work if say a person that never personally identified any negative aspect of their alcohol consumption had decided to never , ever again consume alcohol? With specific respect to 'merely' abstaining from the physical actions of consumption, would those actions be different or similar to one who identified as having had some kind or degree of a 'bottom'?
I think it would probably be easy for the first group. At least easier than for those of us that had negative consequences whether we realized it was from the alcohol or not. I much would have preferred to have control over my drinking and continued to drink. I was too afraid to keep drinking because I knew I was about to wreak havoc on my life. So, even though technically I wasn't at rock bottom it was the sum total of the consequences that got me to quit.
She sounded like she figured it out way before I did in the spectrum. OK, part of me knew but I pushed it aside to keep drinking. If I had stopped 10 years prior when I first realized something was wrong I would have had such an easier time recovering. If I had gone on any longer than I did I doubt I would have pulled through.