I Chose To Drink All Summer After Not Drinking For 4 Years – Here’s What Happened
5 min readAug 15, 2021
This has been an interesting project because I stopped drinking many years ago after developing severe anxiety any time I drank. I would have the slightest drink of alcohol, even just one glass of wine and would wake up in the middle of the night with my heart racing, drenched in sweat. I was convinced it was a heart attack! It wouldn’t stop there — the next day I was still clammy, had a rapid pulse and shaky hands. The dread was so bad that I just quit altogether.