What I found when I looked honestly at my drinking

My relationship with drinking changed in a way I have found mostly positive and slightly disorienting, and this circle is where I worked that out.

Something worth knowing: this interacts with other things I take and a pharmacist gave me a much more precise answer than I expected.

This is why I read the boring weeks. Thank you for the boring weeks.

What I found is that the first drink now does what three used to, so I have stopped at one and been perfectly content.

Somebody in this circle said that not drinking is not a moral position and does not require a defence, and I have used that at three parties.

The thing I did not expect was how much better my sleep got, and how much of what I had blamed on other things had been the drinking.

I would gently say that if you are drinking to manage a difficult week, that is worth saying out loud somewhere, and this is a good place to start.

My rule now is that I do not drink on the day, which is entirely my own rule and my prescriber was fairly relaxed about the whole subject.

The hangovers are the thing. Disproportionate, longer, and completely out of scale with what I drank.

I stopped entirely for six months, not as a rule, just because it stopped being interesting, and started again occasionally.

What helped was noticing the pattern in my notes. Three difficult mornings across two months, all after the same thing.

Thank you. Genuinely.