doggonecarl

Sorry you are struggling so heavily with your anxiety.

I cannot claim to be an expert in anxiety, its cause or its solution. But I don't know how a glass of wine (later you said two sips) could instantly cure your anxiety. I don't think alcohol can metabolize that quickly.

Unless it has nothing to do with anxiety and everything to do with addiction. I have had my addiction create responses to situations that could only be alleviated by using, primarily when I was addicted to meth. Just the anticipation of doing some, the knowing I was going to get high, was enough to remove whatever issue was causing me to seek relief through drugs...before even ingesting it.

I used, recently. Five years clean time gone. Something drove me to it. Something that justified using where nothing else would suffice. But all it really came down to was my addiction and need to get high.