You don't have to have a drinking problem, to know drinking is hiding your problems. Just finishing a dry year taught me this. Realising I had 20 years of a bad relationship with alcohol that should of ended, or at the very least faced, long before it did. Bad habits, numbing and bad coping mechanisms. I want to stress, I have never been diagnosed with alcoholism. And takes nothing away from those that are. It is a hard addiction to quit and I wish you the best of luck. This is just my experience of what I had to face with stopping drinking for a year to help heal myself. This comes with a strong recommendation that if you feel your drinking is getting out of hand, it may be time to look at why. Also the attitudes, groups, people and your finances change. It's amazing that alcohol has such an affect on so much without us being aware.