Originally Posted by
fini 
your post leaves me curious why you chose to quit if drinking life was so great and you were happy all the time?
Since you ask, I didn't choose, the seizures chose for me. I tried to drink less on the weekdays, this made me drink even more on the weekends. I was unspeakably ignorant to what this can do to your brain. I suffered 4 withdrawal seizures and lost about 30 hrs. Nothing in my 34 years has scared me as much as blacking out and waking up on the floor and again in an ambulance then in an MRI machine and finally in a hospital bed, with no memory of the previous 30 hours.
The Chili Peppers lyric really says it all. "I don't ever want to feel like I did that day."
I view it as a blessing in disguise. I know it's bad that it is born out of fear however, do to that fear, those seizures are an unmovable roadblock keeping me from ever relapsing.