Quit drinking all alcohol 6 weeks ago now. (Vaping 7 months.) And I really have no idea why or what happened.
3-4-5 beers a day guy for decades, some vodka now and then, no problem, get smashed once or twice a year, hung over now and then, but my wife and friends were not throwing any interventions my way, no DWIs, no problems at all really.
One day I started early, with beer, just being lazy. Wound up drinking all day and night and felt like crap next day. Something in me snapped and said Not Again. Think I am still going through some form of withdrawal though. Like panic attacks. Generalized anxiety, maybe a little worse, morbid thoughts, avoiding the public. What is worse I really feel like a couple beers will make it go away. So that really just scares me, so I think I'm done for at least 6 months or so until I can get a handle on this. Don't really have the urge to drink and party and get drunk, just make the anxiety go away. Guess they don't call it "liquid courage" for nothing.