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You're welcome stranger, hope you get to where you want to be on this journey.
Assuming you're referring to your road to lowering your intake or sobriety, don't treat losing your will and giving into the temptation (especially as a functioning alcoholic) means you failed and use it as an excuse to fall off the wagon entirely. Doing so means you'll never be free.
Being a functional alcoholic means you'll need to wean off it so you don't go through horrible DTS, and means that aiming for cold turkey is setting yourself up for failure. Take it day by day and set realistic goals that you can attain.
I've seen people get clean from alcohol and hard drugs, and it's never an easy process, and it may require you to cut some people out of your life to do so. Good luck to you, stay strong, and just keep putting one foot in front of the other and you can make it!
This means a lot to me. The past few months have been bad. I went from my usual intake to realising "hey no one is looking at what I buy". I fell off a cliff and I'm not proud. I'll work on getting back to where I started.
It's a cruel cruel drug, I don't think I'll shake it any time soon
There are some things I don’t exactly love about AA, but it’s worth a shot. They don’t demand perfection, just that you keep coming back and trying.