When Sammi Shay stopped drinking at age 25, her friends were puzzled.
“You didn’t have a problem,” they would say.
Shay hadn’t been drinking more than her peers or doing anything unusual under the influence of alcohol. Maybe she’d send a text she wouldn’t otherwise have sent, she said, or tell the same story twice. But while her friends could laugh off such gaffes, Shay, who is prone to anxiety, would often end up feeling panicky and ashamed. Drinking wasn’t working for her, so two years ago, she simply stopped.
“It feels great,” said Shay, a graduate student who lives in Logan Square. Read more here.