Just joined
Just joined today. I have been shy and had anxiety all my life. I had a narcissistic overbearing mother and tried to please her all my life and married to a cheating husband. I started drinking to feel more social, then drank to feel numb when I found out my husband had hidden a child from me throughout most of our marriage. Then after I finally was able to divorce him, I drank to deal with being a single mother and my fear of failing and losing my home and everything, then I drank whenever I had to deal with something difficult. I had always done well at work and now having trouble because I feel anxiety about the stressors of work and the toxic environment at work. I know I need to just deal with the stress of work and being a single mom but it feels overwhelming. I have no social life and no friends, just work and then taking care of my home and an autistic son. Feels undoable. Need an outlet somewhere other than the bottom of a bottle.