Joe Biden

It was just different.

I really worked to sort of change my mindset.

I really asked myself, like, why do you drink?

Why are you drinking?

And a lot of the time, my answer would be to feel more comfortable in a social environment.

And I just put myself...

in those environments and just would force myself to be there.

I'd force myself to hang out and go to a club or go to a bar, go to a dinner.

Yeah, so you weren't avoiding those places.

I was at the beginning because I didn't feel like I could go and not have a drink because of the stress of it.

But then after a while, I sort of was like, mate, you've got to pull your socks up here and you can't just live in your house all the time.

You've got to go out and enjoy yourself.

And if you're only enjoying yourself because you're drinking, then you really do have a problem.

But I just changed my mindset.

I found really good replacements

Things that I could sort of attribute to having a beer.

I often found with me, most of it is just the ritual of cracking something open and sharing it with friends and drinking it.

Whether it's sparkling water or a beer, I now can't, I don't associate like, I don't see a difference.

But I think it's different for everyone.

I had a great support system.