Joe Biden
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12.
And it just really scared me.
I just was like, wow, maybe I have a little bit of an alcohol thing.
So I sort of decided to punish myself and say, I'll do February as well.
I'll do two months off.
If I can do two months off, then I can prove to myself that I don't have a problem.
Two months go by.
And I was still really struggling.
I felt like I couldn't be social.
I felt like I couldn't go to the pub and have a lime soda.
I couldn't go out for dinner.
I was really, really struggling.
And I started to really worry that maybe I had an alcohol problem.
And so I decided that I would wait until my birthday, which is June 1st.
I said to myself, if I can do six months without alcohol, then I can prove to myself that I don't have a problem.
And by the time I had got to June 1st, I was the happiest I've ever been in my life.
I could sleep better.
I could handle problems better.
Things that would go wrong on set that would normally set me off, I could take in my stride.