One of the first things that I learned about drinking was that when adults are stressed,

they drink, and then the stress goes away.

And as a high-stress person, it made perfect sense to me to start drinking every day to

manage my stress.

This is coping drinking in action, although I had no idea that's what I was doing.

Drinking didn't help me

manage anything. It just delayed my problems and allowed them to get worse. In this episode,

you'll learn why alcohol is so effective for coping, how long-term coping drinking impacts the

brain and what to expect when you first quit drinking.

And before we dig in, I'd like to take a moment to thank my sponsors who made this episode possible.

When I quit drinking, I didn't have the mental bandwidth to keep my house clean on top of trying to learn how to function like a normal person and feel my emotions.

So I had all the shame build

up for years about the state of my house. When we moved two years ago, I used it as a fresh

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