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Originally Posted by franki_j
Thanks for the replies everyone. I drink about 3 times a week, and I do binge drink. I realize that sometimes I do drink to manage my anxiety and a couple weeks ago I drank at work because I felt very anxious about something. So yeah, I know that some of these things aren't good; however, most of the time when I drink it is for social reasons, and like I said I really only do drink 3 times a week.
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You know there is a problem with drinking when you are anxious and that you binge drink. I do not think it's weird that your T points it out and wants you to stop drinking. She wants you to realize that you are not productively engaged by drinking...in the way you drink now. She sees the situation as an outsider and wants to help you. whether it is the right way.....i dont know?
What I do know is that drinking for the reasons you do, not go along with therapy. Because you just have to learn other ways to deal with your anxiety, there is therapy for. To learn new coping mechanisms.
I understand your resistance very well...I've had the same situation with my T she wanted me to quit drinking......and she was pushing me, sometimes it went too far and then she would say something that was not appropriate (drinking buddies) But we talked about it and then she admitted that she should not have said certain things. But she said it out of frustration, and she apologized for it.
I then decided to try it, stop drinking to see if things changed....and it did. It's not that I never drink but i do not drink for the wrong reasons anymore. and it helped me to make good progress in therapy.
Try it, stop for a while .... then you experience it yourself. And you can see if it really is not a problem, that you can without alcohol. Later you can always decide to drink.
Liefs,
Bloem