>I think you underestimate the link between physical and mental health. He's not alone. Most medics do too. The only way I managed to get off alcohol was by v

>I think you underestimate the link between physical and mental health. He's not alone. Most medics do too. The only way I managed to get off alcohol was by vigorous exercise: cycling many miles and hours in the Yorkshire Dales. That was in '98. Before that, I found that any stress or anxiety would quickly result in me going back on the bottle. My uncle was a general practitioner for many decades and he reflected later that at least 50% of his patients presenting with primarily a physical complaint, he'd find the actual pathology, if you did enough digging, was actually primarily psychological in nature.