Congrats!  I hope we can both stick with it, I don't want my life ruined again. That's so disgusting.  How can they think that openly being an active addict is helpful? "LOL but you have to eat to live, you don't need to drink."  Yeah sure, but you don't need to eat 10,000 excess calories a day. I don't know how you feel, but I strongly believe that addiction is very closely related to mental illness.  It could be just my experience, but I sure as hell wouldn't have taken my own advice, I was a mess.  And of course at the time I thought I was ok, but looking back, I most definitely wasn't.  I remember arguing with my thesis advisor that I needed to drink to successfully teach a class.  How delusional can you get?  But had I said I needed a pack of chips or whatever the fuck they eat to get through an hour, no one would bat an eye. Also, I'm assuming you're female (username.)  Keep it sexy lady!