Your ‘new addictions’: Chips Ahoy, Jolly Ranchers Chews, Hi-Chews, Diet Coke, posh pineapple popsicles, “Hint of Lime” Doritos, Rowntree’s Fruit Gums, blood oranges.

What, no Walker’s? Sounds to me like you haven’t done anything but trade alcohol for junk food and sweets. My dad, seven-and-a-half years in a nursing home after a lifetime of being a functioning alcoholic. He’s basically mute, outside of being bed-ridden and paralyzed since 2011.

“I am more terrified of being bored than being hurt, more afraid I will be the same from day to day than nervous about what I might become,” you write. Well, get used to it, being bored, or find ways to make yourself useful, because we are all just fellow travelers to the same destination.