I’m a highly functioning alcoholic with a successful 15 year career in the military. I’ve had long periods of “forced” sobriety on deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan but suffer from nightly binge drinking while stateside. I have hid it quite successfully for the most part, but as I get older I’m finding alcohol is having an increasingly negative effect on my emotional and spiritual health. I’m single with no kids. I used to think that I used alcohol to fill that void in my life…the loneliness. But now I’m asking myself, is alcohol creating that void instead of filling it? Looking to change things up. “To grow, you must suffer.”