Originally Posted by
Sparklife 
The issue for me was that I didn’t (and still really haven’t) dealt with why I’m an alcoholic. That’s the hard part I think and the long road ahead.
For me, this wasn't an important factor in giving up alcohol. The fact is, I was an alcoholic because I couldn't always control how much I drank. The only solution to that was to not drink. Sometimes I think people obsess over WHY they drink so that they can somehow magically solve the problem and return to drinking like a normal person. I'm not saying that's why you want to know and I'm not dismissing that problems in people's lives can cause them to pick up a drink, but finding out the reason behind it (if there even is one beyond simply being an alcoholic) will never change the fact that you are one.
I put my energy into not drinking rather than into trying to work out why it ever happened in the first place.