Those that seem comfortable calling others dry drunks online almost invariably are very confused people, suffering from a range of emotional anomalies ranging from grandiosity to almost terminal lack of self-esteem.
Or maybe just picked up a phrase bit like I did with some of my less flavoursome labels.
However if it becomes a mostly silent phrase I'll be all the happier and hopefully in refering to yourself you won't mind TOO much if I add that I've had some of those battles to fight too, or that actually I think the changes you describe are amongst the best of humanity rather than drunkeness ('cos until you see it you sure as hell can't change it!).