I can relate. I started drinking in university, just a beer when I got home. Then as my classes got more intensive, I started using the alcohol to ease my stress more. Then by the next semester I was homeless and I used it to help me sleep on the floor of the lab and ease the anxiety I felt about my situation. I'd just curl up under the benches on my blanket with a bottle of whatever and hope I'd wake up for my alarm before my coworkers got in for the day. :/ I drink out of boredom and loneliness now.