Hi Fearlessat50
a few years back I have long lasting constant nerve pain and sometimes in the middle of the night the urge to drink visited me briefly.
I knew that drinking wouldn't be a solution tho (and I never considered it during the day cos I could post here or do other things) so I kept searching for something that would work, and in conjunction with my doctor we found a non addictive med.
Obviously your situation is different but the principles the same - use support, identify the problem and fix it without drinking.
I think if you know your problem is stress there's probably a lot you can do for that before you get down to destructive and inefficient methods like drinking
https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums...44-stress.html (Stress)