Surely that depends on the amount of alcohol one is consuming . The degree of your habit. Some drink so much that it effects reasoning and thought processes to the extent they cannot explore their problems
You are right about this, but there is still another dimension to this and I didn't explain properly. I was also referring to alcohol making you feel artificially good and relaxed even when you are not. It temporarily seems to fix things, and so you go back to it all the time but the cause why you are f.e. not feeling so good and stressed will stay. Past a certain point, alcohol then can become an additional problem on top of the rest