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By 2021, I was worried that I had already done a lot of damage.Įvery declined drink felt like an opportunity missed, but later I was always glad I had skipped it. The booze may not stay in your system but the damage builds up. Alcohol damages our DNA and the risk of health effects rises with age as exposure to alcohol accumulates. The myth that only heavy drinkers should quit makes it harder for moderate drinkers to walk away from a substance that is, technically, poison. But total sobriety in the absence of a serious problem confounds people. Everybody understands taking a month off, especially after the holidays. When I decided to quit for good, a year later, I knew I would have to explain myself. Why deprive my future self of future fun? Not drinking was hard, like paying attention to a three-hour seminar is hard, being fully aware, feeling the spectrum of emotions, some I hadn’t allowed myself to feel in a long time, like boredom, and didn’t know how to handle. For a month, I lived with the lights on in my brain all the time, and then happily went back to drinking. I was almost sorry to see it end, but I didn’t consider staying dry. With each day of the month that passed, I felt better, stronger, more rested. More Massachusetts districts are switching to electric school buses Health care providers are seeing 'a steady stream' of people traveling to Mass. I did a dry month in 2020 to break the spell of a decade of nightly wine drinking, but I chose February instead of January because it was three days shorter. Here’s to the end of another dry January, the sobriety challenge that grows more popular every year. ![]() ![]() Facebook Email "Perhaps it’s not just alcohol I’m trying to control, but the passage of time," writes Erica Youngren.
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