I self medicate with cannabis, the trazadone and herbal remedies don't quite cut it...and though I have self medicated with alcohol in the past I do my best to avoid that since it never proves to helpful......I still drink some but not for self medicating purposes.

I find cannabis to be helpful with minimal side effects, many people including some experts disagree and vice versa.

I would not recommend mixing the klonopin with alcohol though, not a good combination at all imagine having all your impulse control just gone and not remembering how you even got so worked up. But yeah I'd certainly talk to your doctor and maybe look into some mental health services like therapy or something since that could help with more techniques to deal with stress and such.

I know this can be a difficult issue though, its hard to bring up self medication without an earful of how ashamed you should be so its hard to kind of reach out and even discuss it openly at least in my experiance...but your not the only one who has or does self medicate.