Posted by ksvt on March 2, 2001, at 22:19:35
In reply to Re: alkie, much? » ksvt, posted by Lisa Simpson on March 2, 2001, at 8:04:56
> Lisa - it was only easy because I was right and my psychiatrist was wrong. I drank too much on occasion but I really wasn't an alcoholic. I think I liked the social part of it more than the drinking part, although there are plenty of alcholics in my family and I'm sure I probably could have gotten there eventually if left to my own devices. Part of it I think also was that I really was annoyed with this psychiatrist and I was motivated to prove him wrong. (somehow I think I reacted probably precisely how he wanted anyway.) The other piece of it for me was that I was much more naive about depression then and strangely, more willing to treat it like a disease than I am now. To me giving up drinking was just something I had to do temporarily to get myself well - it was sort of like a doctors prescription that you have to follow. I don't want to make this sound simple because it obviously isn't for true alchoholics. It's just that I wasn't one yet, so it was easier for me. Good luck K
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