RE: Nothing But The Night - Aug 2, 2022, 11:54 PM So, this is not a happy email and I figured I’d get all out at the same time. I have been struggling with an alcohol problem and it is getting acute. Since you are the closest people in my life I figured I would let you know, otherwise it will only get worse. I am not sure I am committed to sobriety for my whole life but I don’t want to drink indefinitely.

Anxiety: An Introduction I often times wake up in the middle of the night in a vivid panic. It is not that there is someone beating down my door (or even the worry of that), or that I have forgotten something terribly important that ought to have been front of mind. Rather, the terror comes to me across many years, reaching out from a far future that in the moment feels very near at hand.

Drying up ain’t so easy. When I went to the doctors because I had been on a ten day bender (though the time varies in my own and other’s recollections) and getting out of bed required a few beers to be manageable, I was actually instructed by my doctor to keep drinking. My decisive decision to stop drinking was met my doctor with a very measured caution that to do so categorically might be too dangerous.