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Originally Posted by kaliope
if you mean once having a problem and now don't? I once was a hardcore drunk for several years, was sober for 13 and now drink on occasion. I don't feel now that I really was an alcoholic though, I feel I was selfmedicating my mental illness. though I do have addictive tendancies.
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Thank you so much! I feel like this is me as well. I have addictive tendencies and same tendency to self medicate, but I have also had a long period of sobriety. I don't want to drink and be an alcoholic by any means, but this not drinking gets very isolating.
Did it just happen naturally for you, or do you have rules about it (like no alcohol in the house, or only on weekends etc)? Did you wait until you had seen some progress on the mental stuff?