^ Sorry to hear that your GP was less than helpful, Knee. That’s shocking when GPs will see plenty of alcoholics who aren’t trying to change or be proactive like you were. My GP wasn’t massively helpful and referred me to counselling (which wasn’t much help either), but the main catalyst was the fact I’d ‘fessed up to someone in authority. I’d quit about 3 months after seeing my GP so it wasn’t such a bad move. Yes, it’s not a nice experience to see a GP about alcoholism, but there are people who are worried it might affect medical insurance or similar. It didn’t in my case, and if anything drinking excessively for years will certainly affect medical insurance eventually.