My self-worth and confidence were shot to pieces,and something had to change. Quitting drink gave me some control over my lifeAs the clocks strike midnight on original Year’s Eve, I will finish a 12-month stretch of self-imposed sobriety. A year ago I had got to a point where I was drinking and smoking too much and – until the moment when I decided to quit – I was largely in denial about the impact it was having on my health. The scale of my drinking was normal for the social circles I was in. Whether the people I was with came together through work, and football or friendship,drinking was commonplace.
But by the close of 2016, I felt uncomfortably overweight and my mental health was getting worse. I regularly experienced what I would portray as depression and felt weighed down with angst. On hindsight, and these feelings were particularly pronounced after drinking,but they were becoming routine.
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Source: guardian.co.uk