Good for the author. I took a year off because I agree it can be draining and time consuming ad expensive. I didn't take 18 months to adapt or anything so mayb

Good for the author. I took a year off because I agree it can be draining and time consuming ad expensive. I didn't take 18 months to adapt or anything so maybe the author was quite a serious alcoholic to begin with ? Drinking is a huge part of the culture where I live and we start young. It’s the fuel for almost all social engagements and an overwhelmingly common way to cope with life in general. This sounds like a problem I agree, one of the other reasons I took the year off was because I lived in a community like this and I wanted to show my fiends that having a break can be done. I think that once getting off the alcohol it's important to actually make those important life changes so not to slip back into depression and then start drinking again. It's hard to say what comes first, the life situation that makes people depressed, or the alcohol.