I'm an 11 years sober member of AA as well as being Bipolar and having Panic and Anxiety Disorders. I didn't seek psych treatment until I was 3 years sober, so I was never on psych meds while drinking. But I do know now that my mental illnesses and my alcoholism do interface with each other - thus I am a Dual Diagnosis patient, or Co-Morbidity.

I now know that I had Early Onset Mental Illness and I also started blackout drinking from age 14, very young to go in so hard, and I now know I was drinking partially because of a huge genetic predisposition but also to self-medicate my mental anguish. I was a blackout drunk until 32 when I got sober.

Phew, I told you all that because I now know that while I was unconsciously drinking to ease my mental illness, of course I created MORE mental illness - the moods were even more all over the place around my drinking, the Bipolar Depressions made worse and the Hypomania/Mania also escalated and of course all the other aspects of Bipolar.

And I wasn't medicated then. But I know that it is terribly dangerous for people to use booze or street drugs as well as psych drugs - people die due to these combinations every day. Being in AA for so long has had me see some shocking stuff and the results of those combinations are awful to see. And they can be fatal from the point of the joint physiological effects, as well as the psychological effects with a greater risk of suicide. So if I were you, I'd look at abstaining from booze. It will become very evident very quickly as to whether you have an addiction to booze if you can't make the choice to stop it and stay stopped.