dear Angelic, well I can sympathise with you, because I did the same for many years in depression, but depression and anxiety can be linked together, where there are people who do believe that they are seperate, and I certainly respect this wholeheartedly, but both were always present when I had the other.
There can be times when we don't remember what happened the previous and because we are anxious we assume that we may have upset somebody, scared to face them just in case we have argued or fought with them, most of the time we hoped that it hasn't happened.
We have to realise that medicating with alcohol is going to cause trouble not only to our health, which we don't care about, but it is not going to get rid of our problems, sure it may while we are intoxicated but every morning when we wake up, the problem is still there, so it is a vicious circle, so what do we do.
Well some say stop drinking so that your problem can be addressed, while others say address your anxiety/depression problem which will make you feel as though you don't need to drink, so these two topics should be addressed by your psych, and you can't say one thing to your psych and then do the opposite.
These can be the two options to consider, however people will do both, drink and address their anxiety, like I did, but in hindsight it wasn't the best option.
Personally I feel as though you have to address your anxiety/depression and alter the hours when you start and how much you do drink.
There must triggers that start your anxiety and I would be happy to hear back from you. Geoff.x
