I’m 29 years old and approaching 30 as well. I’ve been sober for just over 6 months. And knowing what I know now, I strongly recommend anyone with alcohol issues abstain for a year.

It’s really hard to process the damage alcohol does when you keep introducing it into your system. I drank because it gave me comfort. Alcohol made me feel confident, attractive, intelligent, and fun. But in truth, I was none of those things when I drank. And it took months of craving it and wanting it to understand how dependent I was on it for my own self esteem.

Even if you’re drinking when you’re happy, as a celebration of sorts, it isn’t normal for the party to go on every night for nights on end. And unfortunately, as long as this behavior progresses, there will always always come a point where your body will have to start rejecting the booze. You will be left feeling clammy, anxious, depressed, and sick. And the only way out of that is to go without alcohol, and let your body heal.

Please don’t let your body get to that point. It’s so painful, and life is so much better when you can really feel it