Hi all, just wanted to share a really nice little win. I've been fretting all week because I had a Monday night work dinner coming up that was specifically billed around trying some really nice wines. I usually don't drink during the week at all, one of the thousands of small barriers I've put around managing AUD rather than tackling it, but this was as close to a have to drink function as you get. I'm about a month or so in on Nal and had some good results and some meh results with a general tick down in drinking so I figured the Nal would at least help me slow down my drinking at the dinner and it did! I had about five glasses of wine over four or so hours, a really lovely time, and then went home and went to bed.

What I didn't do was panic when the first glass was put in front of me, finish it, drink seven more, get a little morose or beligerent or just visibly wasted, go home, hit another half bottle of vodka, wake up, call in sick or just be violently hungover at work, and get morose and sad about it all.

Just had a few wines, nice time, and woke up a bit dusty but not impaired. It was getting home that blew me away the most. I just didn't feel compelled to keep drinking. I used to have this like this weird vibe about staying drunk, like i couldn't not be drunk once I started. I'd always read things about avoiding a hangover by drinking heaps of water before bed and I just couldn't imagine doing that because I knew I'd need to just keep drinking vodka. Except last night I just didn't. I lay in bed in awe.

I'm just blown away.