This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without judgment,

pain of rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.

Hi, this is Annie Grace. I'm the author of this naked mind and today I'm answering

various questions and I have a few questions on this one topic. So they are all about binge

drinking and kind of what is the difference between binge drinking and regular drinking?

Specifically Erin asked, hello, I was wondering if Annie could talk about binge drinking.

I don't drink every day just in the weekends or when I go out and I binge drinking and

I beat myself up about it for a couple of days and I do it the next weekend. There's

a few more questions that are very much in the same lines like how what's the difference

between binge drinking? How do we know if certain things will work for binge drinking,

where can we find support for binge drinking? So I really want to talk about this difference

and I think that there are really two categories when it comes to how people drink

problematically and one is regular drinking, that's what I did, I drink every single day,

you know, at least a bottle of wine sometimes more and then one is binge drinking, where you don't

drink every single day but special occasions come up, weddings come up, weekends come up and boom,

all of a sudden drinking is not just a little bit but it's like really a lot of drinking and to the

point where kind of you're the one falling down hurting themselves, stuff like that. So it ends up

being you know a really interesting thing with these two things. So with regular drinking and daily

drinking in most cases for a long time at least, at least outwardly, people really manage to function

right so that you can be successful, you can have the career, you can have the job, you can have

the marriage, your drinking could be pretty hidden but you're doing it all the time every day,

where even if you're not hiding it, you're still sort of appearing somewhat sober, I remember my

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