Melbourne

Yeah I had high blood pressure from the booze. But kept drinking regardless, it's not a simple thing to admit I'm powerless over a substance and need help to quit it entirely, but I'm working on it every day. We're encourage to be binge and social drinkers all the time in Australia and many of us only start to regulate it in our 40s when it's done damage. Some of the damage can be undone of course but I had other bad health outcomes too and kept having super benders when given the chance. It could have been a lot worse, a lot of people in AA had much worse outcomes than I before they sought help. Treating my gender incongruence has enabled me to make much better decisions, be totally honest with myself and to finally actually love my body instead of seeing it as something I was dissociated from completely.