Hi kipling85. I was a binge drinker from the time I was about 18, through my late 20s. My therapist at that time told me I did have a drinking problem. That was the first time anyone had told me that.

I continued to binge drink, I'm afraid. The only thing that helped me stop using alcohol was that I entered a new phase of reading certain non fiction books, and I couldn't read while I was using alcohol. So my drinking just sort of got lower and lower until I realized in my late 20s I was no longer a drinker at all.

Now, I'm on meds where mixing with alcohol would make me very sick. I can tolerate a glass of wine, but nothing more I guess.

So the things that changed were that I reduced my time drinking socially and at home, because I wanted to read instead. This presented new and different social involvement without drinking. I don't know whether this could help anyone else, but I do understand the binge drinking. I hope you'll be able to reduce your drinking too.