Drink Less in 7 Days by Georgia Foster

Author:Georgia Foster
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RedDoor
Published: 2017-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

ANXIETY IS KEY

Tamsin’s pattern of drinking had a history behind it. She had many similar stories to the wedding, which made her feel very anxious and, indeed, I got it. What Tamsin couldn’t understand is why she couldn’t just drink a bit too much like others at the wedding without what she called ‘having a blowout’.

Blowouts, or what I call ‘furiously quick drinking’, are classic with the Perfectionist personality.

Tamsin’s Inner Critic used her history of drinking as the reference to how she drinks. In other words, her mind scanned her drinking past and said, ‘if you drink, we know what will happen, you will drink too much’ and of course she did just that.

Before Tamsin decided to have her first drink, the Inner Critic was suggesting that a negative heavy-drinking moment might occur. This fired the amygdala, which triggered lots of anxiety and stress. At first she tried to ignore this anxiety. Then her body demanded that she relax in this work/social situation. She told herself, ‘everybody else is drinking so why shouldn’t I?’ Tamsin gave in to this demand and drank too much too quickly to alleviate her earlier anxiety.

To reiterate, anxiety is key when it comes to drinking too much and too quickly. Combined with Tamsin’s Perfectionist personality and her history of ‘all or nothing’ drinking, it is no surprise that this situation occurred.

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