Alcohol suppresses anxiety and the buzz can be blissful in its own way. Don't know from personal experience, just through long talks with a daughter who can drink most people under the table. She has a genetic condition that is very painful. Also an anxiety disorder. Self medication of choice is Caffeine and tobacco. tried most other street drugs. Luckily opiates don't work well after very short usage.
Alcohol quiets the anxiety, but the price is extreme. Hours of violent upchucking and more hours of what she calls the bizarros (delirium tremens). Being afraid to sleep for a couple of days following a day of severe food poisoning symptoms will tax anyone's system.
Luckily she's showing signs of progress, but the going is slow.
Alcohol suppresses anxiety and the buzz can be blissful in its own way. Don't know from personal experience, just through long talks with a daughter who can drink most people under the table. She has a genetic condition that is very painful. Also an anxiety disorder. Self medication of choice is Caffeine and tobacco. tried most other street drugs. Luckily opiates don't work well after very short usage.
Alcohol quiets the anxiety, but the price is extreme. Hours of violent upchucking and more hours of what she calls the bizarros (delirium tremens). Being afraid to sleep for a couple of days following a day of severe food poisoning symptoms will tax anyone's system.
Luckily she's showing signs of progress, but the going is slow.