Alcohol deadens the thoughts I don't want to hear or confront.
Allen Carr (in "The Easy Way to Stop Drinking") sums it up like so: Step 1 is the myth that humans cannot cope with stress unaided, 2 is that alcohol helps in this regard. 3 is that we should ignore any negative feelings alcohol gives us, because if it was bad then how come it's so popular?
this is day 2