Whatever you feel is right, but I always felt when someone tells people they want to be alone, in telling people they are shouting out the opposite indirectly.
Even just coming here and reading people's posts helps.
Sometimes I fall asleep reading, which is nice, also because I have spent two hours reading encouraging stuf...mind off of the anxiety, and its not two hours drinking on the couch.
Good luck to you. Hope all is well.
And if that's what works for you the. More power to you, personally I just get in my head too much and that's not a cycle that ends easily