>>21596970When I was drinking, I wanted to always be drinking. The prospect of waiting a few days to get drunk or drinking in moderation made me miserable. It's way easier for me psychologically to just draw a hard line and abstain altogether.
>>21596973I can't tell you anything helpful, really. I had tried many times to limit myself, and I engaged in all this bargaining, and it was miserable. One day, I basically just decided I was no longer a person who drank. I just made sobriety into a kind of fact about myself, with no room for negotiation.
Developing active hobbies that you enjoy really helps, as the other anon said, beacuse you feel like you have a lot more time. But the honestly thing that helps me the most is just reminding myself that drinking is no longer something I do.
