fyl2u
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Also, @fyl2u - I like red wine too, but a bottle of it every night is not a solution to anxiety. I've been on the drinking to solve anxiety train, and I'm extremely glad to have hopped off. I know it's a hard step to take, but it's probably worth it.
I know I'm contradicting myself. I think it's a defence mechanism, trying to cover my alcoholism. I do use it for the anxiety, I know it's bad, I still do it. Maybe one day I won't. It won't be today though.
That's not good mind. In fact it will probably kill you.
I once read an article (maybe five or so years ago) in which a former alcohol advisor to the World Health Organisation said that he had read decades and decades of research in his time at the WHO and had come to the conclusion that there's no noticeable difference in life expectancy between someone that drinks a glass of wine every night and someone that drinks a bottle of wine every night (more than that and it starts to drop), but one thing was clear, and that was that drinking some alcohol daily was better for you than abstaining completely.
The NHS disagrees about how much the allowance should be for how much you can drink each week, but I try to aim for the bottle a night, it's just some nights I fancy a bit more when the bottle's empty. Bad Phil.
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