My name is Bernd and I am an alcoholic
What turned me from open wino into a closeted alcohoid who only gets hammered alone, safely and infrequently was a sequence of very shameful events that put my relationship with people that matter to me at great risk.
I can't say I regret drinking less, I feel better and picked up dieting and working out again.
I did lose some friends irreparably along the way because they got tired of my drunk misbehaviour, but those who mattered the most are still with me.
The shame and anxiety is what made it easy for me to stop habitual daily drinking.
*__DO YOU AGREE WITH THIS?__**
> **The perceived scale of intensive magnitude regarding emotive states/aesthetic feelings misrepresents the qualitative alteration of conscious states, and a better means of introspective analysis may be required for the advancement of humanity (including with the design and production of better tech) than of proximal-continuity to other social and environmental stimulus response, with the goal of increasing the utility of emotional rationalisation.**
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> - **YES, I agree**
> - **I am UNSURE / MIXED**
> - **NO, I disagree**
> - **I have NO OPINION**
