Like the others here alcohol actually ended up contributing to greater anxiety.
You'll find a lot of loners here too - and the more I drank the less I ventured out, so it made that problem worse as well.
Alcohol is at best a short term solution... so I'd not only have the original anxiety still but I developed a dependence on alcohol with made me anxious when I didn;t have a drink.
Using alcohol for anxiety or loneliness is like trying to control a fire with gasoline Tom.
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