Is it work stress? Are you overworked and underpaid, or been looked over for promotion? Did you choose the wrong career and now you regret it?
Are you a frazzled, exhausted parent?
Do you have financial stress, are you deep in debt, and struggling to pay bills?
This is one of the greatest tricks alcohol plays on us all. It presents itself as the solution to all your problems, no matter what they are. If you drink, all your problems are gone.
They’re just waiting for you to wake up tomorrow from another rubbish nights sleep, feeling more terrible than you did before you had that first drink.
Alcohol pretends to make your problems better and winds up making everything much worse.
Throughout your life, alcohol companies and the pop culture presentation of the poison they dispense have likely led you to believe that alcohol can solve some, or all of your life problems.
All it actually does, is allow you to hide from the problem for a few hours and then be less equipped to deal with it the next day because you’re so tired from drinking and not sleeping, the night before.
That’s how drugs are designed to work. They trick you by offering temporary relief in exchange for compounded misery later.
If you can get through the toughest part — the first two weeks of withdrawals — when everything seems 100 times worse, I think you’ll find over time that everything gets 100% better.