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What do you mean? Alcohol is one of the harder and more addictive drugs you can do. Standard anti-deppressants aren't nearly as bad and neither are many illicit substances like cannabis and ecstasy. There are a few that are worse (heroin, crack cocaine, maybe benzodiazepines) but I don't think people would reach for these just to treat for anxiety.
Edit: Even Ketamine is only roughly as bad and dangerous as alcohol while being much better at treating things like depression and anxiety. It's regularly used now to treat these disorders in treatment resistant patients. A course of treatment can last up to one month after the last dose. It's can also be effective within one hour of the first dose.
I can't buy that stuff at a gas station. By "everything" I meant life in general.
You might want to reword that. It's not an obvious interpretation at least to me.
Hey bud, just letting you know that life in general gets a lot easier when alcohol isn't poisoning your mind and body. I got stuck real bad for, sheesh, 7 years because I would feel crappy, drink to feel less crappy, then feel even more crappy the next day, repeat.
Recently I had breakfast with my partner, and brought up that it had really been a problem lately, and they took it to heart and have been keeping me accountable. After about a week I had a six pack and some liquor on Saturday as usual and Sunday just felt like a total waste of a day, I felt awful. I think you lose that perspective over time of how much better being sober is when you have been daily drinking for so long.
Of course I won't pretend I have everything figured out and it has been hard not having that method of self-education, but what really kicked my butt into gear was talking about it to somebody I cared about, and getting that first week of sobriety for perspective of how much better I could be feeling. I wish you the best, I know it's not easy.