How Drinking Changes Thinking.

The wine does not just affect you physically but depresses you too.

Photo by Francisco Gonzalez on Unsplash Drinking can depress you.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use, we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. Carl Sagan

One of the things that becomes less good when we are drinking is our thinking. AA calls it “stinking thinking” when we are thinking (a lot) about drinking, but there is no escaping the fact that once we acknowledge we may have a problem with drinking, then it starts to occupy much of our thinking time. Acquiring, inebriated or compromised thinking and recovery thinking are all frankly a bit of a waste of time and energy.

So how do we harness that to learn to stop or at least moderate the activity so that it does not hijack the rest of our lives.

Remember what goes up must come down. The higher you fly, the further you fall. Alcohol is first a stimulant and then a depressant.

Knowledge, they say, is power: learn about alcohol and what it does to us and immerse yourself sufficiently in the science and art of moderation and sobriety and you may find it happens naturally.

It did for me.

Ultimately after years of appalling self-abuse with the bottle, I stopped when I created, instigated and stuck to a new and simple set of rules.