throwawaywayway

Thank you for your response. It's a bit of surprise to me, because I had always heard the opposite, that daily drinking lets one build up a tolerance while binge drinking repeatedly hits the liver with more than it can handle, but I suppose that was just folk wisdom. I've cooled off a bit over the years (originally I drank to deal with depression that I eventually "got over"), but maybe it's time I took another hard look at myself.

Honest question: How much is too much?

I drink about 2-4 fairly strong beers a night (5-7% ABV), almost every night, and while I certainly feel it, I've only been "shitfaced" (or whatever you call "drinking to the point that you lose control") maybe half a dozen times in my life. The fact that I'm not doing the (apparently) normal thing for young folk and getting trashed every Friday night (or ever, really) gives me some relief, but I often worry about how much damage I'm doing with my less intense but sustained drinking habit.