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Originally Posted by SnowedUnder 
I NEED to find something that works as well as alcohol.
Thats the point I was getting at, but obviously missed at conveying before.
You're trading a brief respite for continued anxiety - not just the pre existing anxiety but also the added anxiety of an addict waiting their fix.
The respites get fewer and more brief too.
An even worse scenario for you would be for the alcohol to eventually stop having any effect at all.
As alcoholism progresses that's the likely scenario.
I've been there and that's not a place you want to be.
But the kicker is, my true DoC (love for it not in a self-medicating way) is cocaine. Cocaine causes anxiety but not in me, at least not in a way that impacts me (I feel good when I use so I don't care my heart is racing etc.). So...if that's the case, is my anxiety even...real?
For me, I take a common sense approach.
if I'm feeling anxious my anxiety is real - even if the things I'm feeling anxious about are nebulous, or may not even exist tangibly - so I need to take proper steps to deal with that anxiety.
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