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Originally Posted by Mr. Billy
How long have you been doing this? If you find that you cannot get through the evening comfortably without the wine, that is an indication of beginning dependency on the alcohol for mood support or the ability to relax. If you have been consuming for a period of time, you will find that there is an uneasiness, an unrelaxed and anxious feeling when you do not have the alcohol. The natural instinct in this case is to drink to to settle the nerves and to relax. So you reach for the very thing that is causing your discomfort to begin with. If you stop drinking the alcohol, there will be discomfort for a period of time but it will go away as it is a byproduct of the alcohol use.
This is what makes it difficult for the alcoholic. When you quit, things get better, but you have to endure some uneasiness in the beginning.
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I've been doing this for 1.5 years or so, as a strong love for the taste of wine. I gotta say, I don't feel any desire to drink something else. If I had vodka/beer/rhum at home and no wine available, i wouldnt feel desire to drink that. That's why I think it's not a dependency on alcohol, but more a depency on the taste and relaxing comfort of wine.
I'm not trying to make excuses, 1 bottle of wine in one evening is a lot and makes me worry.
Without wine, I feel discomfort, but it's not like my hands start shaking without it. It's not a physical dependancy (yet), but more a mental dependency, which I think is similar to heavy weed users. Weed is not physically addicting.
Alcohol however, can be become physically addicting, and that is what I'm worried about. I want to keep enjoying quality wine, but I don't want to become physically dependant on it...