I doubt that kind of faith can be replaced by anything. It has really impacted me in a lot of ways but the average journey to feeling "normal" is 7 years and I have two down .

No, I didn't so much replace the faith with alcohol as much as it was that alcohol was expressly forbidden by the faith and I had never had to decide for myself if I wanted to drink or how much. I would say it was more about having to learn how to make decisions that most people learn how to make when they are in college like "should I drink in front of my boss", "how much alcohol does a 'normal' person ingest vs an unhealthy one"..."do I even want to drink at all"? Thinks like that. I think it is sad and a little embarrassing that a 40 year old man has to learn things like that because he never had to make any moral decisions for himself before but that is a little off track.

I imagine it is a probably little hard to understand unless someone comes from a background where they were always taught to let someone else define your morality for you..and then learned that they had to reject that leadership as being God's authority on Earth.

Wow, that got off topic fast . Sorry.

I really just meant to say that alcohol seems to make me sleepy as well as impact the quality of my sleep so I feel groggy the next day. Especially if I have more than 1 or 2..but that is also another story