No need to Hide!

I know for a fact that people shun away from talking openly about their drinking, and that many would be loath to read a book like mine in public, especially on a busy train. I think that’s a shame. If there is something you have an issue with and you are doing something proactive to resolve it why should you hide that fact away? I come across lots of people openly reading quit smoking books and talking about smoking issues in public so why not drinking? I think it all comes back to that word ‘alcoholic’, and that complete myth that somehow an alcoholic can’t be cured and will always be some strange creature to be wary of. My new motto for 2016 is that if you have a drink issue, you recognise that fact and you want to do something about it that’s fantastic; you don’t need to brand yourself as an alcoholic before tackling your problem. Whether or not you are an alcoholic is completely irrelevant. I recognise that I was an alcoholic because I let alcohol dictate my life; but it doesn’t now so I would no longer say I was an alcoholic – it’s just that ‘I Don’t Drink!’