As the clocks strike midnight on New 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 alcohol 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 mental 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, football or friendship, drinking was commonplace.

But by the end of 2016, I felt uncomfortably overweight and my mental health was getting worse. I regularly experienced what I would describe as depression and felt weighed down with angst. In hindsight, these feelings were particularly pronounced after drinking, but they were becoming routine.

I was often telling myself I wasn’t good enough or that I was failing in my professional life. These thoughts were irrational, but as a driven person, keen to push on in my career in public relations, they were all the more intense.


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Addiction to alcohol might be a problem.

Tasmithanderson:
Addiction to alcohol might be a problem.

You're on point smith

TalkTechNG:

You're on point smith

My pleasure

But there are lot of reasons why people become alcohol addict

TalkTechNG:
But there are lot of reasons why people become alcohol addict

Truth!