‘My job is very stressful and drinking wine helps me relax at the end of a long day. My social life also seems to revolve around alcohol- boozy dinners, after-work drinks, even prosecco play dates! I’m not an alcoholic and don’t get blackout drunk but I think alcohol may be taking its toll on me. I don’t sleep well; I feel anxious the next day and I just don’t feel as healthy as I could. I need to work on my relationship with alcohol, so I am not so reliant on it.’
‘ I never drink during the week and am generally successful in life. But every weekend I seem to end up getting drunk when I don’t intent to. I always promise myself I’ll have ‘just one’ but before I know it, I’m waking up and can’t remember going to bed. I need to figure out why this keeps happening and help to stop so that I can start enjoying my weekends instead of regretting them.’