Regardless of the reasons one may use to drink alcohol it is my experience that alcohol is not a good solution to deal with the emotional/mental pain. It will only mean that the pain is never dealt with and will probably get worse.

For me even when I’d dealt with my trauma then I still was an alcoholic.Though there were definitely things that I tried to self-medicate, the fact remains that I have no control when it comes to alcohol. I drank because I’m an alcoholic not because of anything else is the reality of my experience. This insight has only occurred after years of sobriety and recovery however.